Comments on: Webslides on Diigo (online resource)

By: Brian Wojcik

Brian Wojcik — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:32:02 +0000

Hey…thanks for the heads up. I just set it so I am not bookmarking in Diigo and del.icio.us. I am so excited!

By: Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:14:36 +0000

Hi Brian. I don’t think it has to be Diigo or del.icio.us. As I wrote in my post, I’m not using Diigo to its potential, but I’m pretty sure that you can set Diigo so that what you bookmark there also goes to del.icio.us. –Paul

By: Brian Wojcik

Brian Wojcik — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:20:54 +0000

Ok…I have been hesitant to try Diigo because I was pretty set in my ways with del.icio.us but after reading your post yesterday, I thought I’d give it a shot. Eighteen hours later, I am still just really enthralled with the service. I’ve highlighted, bookmarked, joined groups, created a group, shared booksmarks and even created a webslide show.

We are editing our site content and I worked to get everyone set up on diigo and created a webslide show of all of our pages. We are using that as a means of communicating what needs to be changed through highlights and annotations…

Wow…

Thanks for the resource!

By: Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:31:51 +0000

Marie. You do have the option of manually moving through the slide show. After hitting the pause button, you can move forward or backward through the show at your own pace. –Paul

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:33:34 +0000

As you said Paul, this is a great tool to facilitate visualisation of the site which gives more of an instant overview than seeing the link. On viewing the sites I’d prefer to manually move them forward as it was a little annoying to have it automatically move to the next slide when I found one I wanted to explore a little more. The resources are wonderful!

By: Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:40:08 +0000

Lesley,

Thanks for sharing how you’ve used Webslides in the classroom. I think there are probably many places where it could be helpful.

–Paul

By: Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:43:39 +0000

Thanks Larry,

I was remiss in not pointing out that if you have your own Diigo account, you can highlight and leave comments on the web pages in the slideshow. You can have conversations right on the webpage about the page content. I believe you do have to go directly to the webpage in order to annotate. In other words, you can’t just annotate a slide in the slideshow.

The power of webslides is mainly in the ability to visually show sets of links to websites. This works so much better for me than looking at a list of text links.

–Paul

By: Lesley Edwards

Lesley Edwards — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:38:04 +0000

I have used the slideshow feature and find it particularly useful to show a group of sites to a class. One of the English teachers in my school has her students compile a list of sites that would reflect a character or author. Slideshow would be the perfect tool for this. One thing I don’t like about diigo is that when you join a group you see that groups comments on web pages you bring up. I’m not sure if there is a way to turn this comment feature off or not, I’m still exploring.

By: Larry Ferlazzo

Larry Ferlazzo — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:31:17 +0000

Paul,

Great slideshow and wonderful science resources! My only reservation is that it doesn’t appear to allow the creator, or anyone else, to leave comments, descriptions, or instructions — or is that capacity there and I’m just missing it?

That’s one reason I like online applications like Daft Doggy.

Larry