Diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• Do I Need a Digital Teaching Portfolio? | Edutopia

  "This post will help you decide whether or not a portfolio will serve your professional goals and how to go about designing a professional-looking site that showcases your teaching skills." (para. 1, 2015.01.24)

  tags: education Edutopia digital portfolios eportfolios portfolios teaching technology

• What’s Up with QR Codes: Best Tools & Some Clever Ideas — Learning in Hand

  Tony Vincent (2014.09.24)recommended code readers, a label printer, and code-making sites.

  tags: blogs communication educational technology Mac printers resources tools websites QR codes Windows

  • My favorite app that scans QR codes continues to be i-nigma. 
  • I almost always create QR codes on a desktop or laptop computer.
  • Creating on a computer in the first place eliminates the extra steps of having to transfer it.

• The Best Prezis of 2014 — Prezi Blog

  Award-winning presentations followed by links to a reusable template (https://prezi.com/instant-reuse/bz_xa8hfiq4f/) plus tips on: Structuring presentations (http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2014/6/18/how-to-structure-your-presentation.html), Mastering zoom (http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2014/7/14/mastering-the-prezi-zoom.html), Using 3-D backgrounds (http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2014/6/11/4-ways-to-use-3d-backgrounds-in-prezi.html), and Adding voice-over (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNgWlMbczqY).

  tags: blogs communication educational technology presentations resources websites

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Diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• Slack for Collaboration

  • separate "private" channels can be created by the group administrator
  • Chat is not threaded in Slack
  • the option to delete or edit a message

• PBL Pilot: Matching PBL With Traditional Grading | Edutopia

  "Editor's Note: Matt Weyers and co-author Jen Dole, teachers at Byron Middle School in Byron, Minnesota, present the fifth installment in a year-long series documenting their experience of launching a PBL pilot program."

  tags: assessment collaboration education Edutopia learning methodology middle schools PBL project-based learning self-reporting teaching teaching practices

• Dr. Cook's Blog | 10 lessons from blogging everyday for a year (365:365)

  I really like lesson number 8: "In order to be a better writer, you have to read! Many of my posts were inspired by something I read. I want to especially thank all of the other education bloggers out there sharing their knowledge!" I agree completely, and would like to thank Dr. Cook as well for providing just that sort of inspiration.

  tags: blogging wink_students

• Slack for Collaboration

  • Chat is not threaded
    • That sounds like a drag!
  • The only differentiation between users is the avatar
  • the content of attached files are also searchable. While the file hits are obvious in the search results, there's no way to know exactly where in the file, the term was found.

• Guide to Publication: How To Get Your Writing Published in Journals

  Olson, Linda. (2014). Guide to academic and scientific publication: How to get your writing published in scholarly journals. London, England: e-academia. Retrieved from http://www.proof-reading-services.org/guide/

  tags: academic writing guidelines publication

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