Daily Library Technology and Education Links (weekly)

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Daily Library Technology and Education Links 05/23/2012

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Daily Library Technology and Education Links 05/21/2012

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Daily Library Technology and Education Links 05/20/2012

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Daily Library Technology and Education Links 05/19/2012

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Daily Library Technology and Education Links 05/18/2012

  • What Really Matters to Working Students - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    The comments are actually more interesting than the article itself. Many of the comments hit on the issues that I see with "coddling" students through their education. At the end of the day...the students that have gumption are the students who will succeed - both in their classes, as well as in their career.

    tags: library chronicle students education higher education

    • But, are you really doing them a favour by allowing their outside interests to dictate how or whether they attend the classes they have signed up for?

    • But students who make it a habit of not showing up for class (such as the student who attended a class only 6 times in 11 weeks) because she had "business to attend to" is going to fail in the real world. An employer is NOT going to accept "I had business to attend to" as a reason for showing up to work 50% of the time. The student should have been advised to drop the class and re-enroll when she was ready to actually devote the time necessary to take the class.

        

      Remember, you aren't just teaching your subject, you are teaching personal responsibility (something that is becoming less and less common), time management and other real life skills.

      • I have felt the same way; however, if a student takes the time to contact me vs. the student who just falls off the face of the earth, I'm more apt to work with the student that contacts me regularly regarding their issues!
    • The problem for me is that students constantly want accommodations, and it is really hard for me to tell which student truly has a life event vs. those who simply didn't do the work and want more time.
    • And there is one final problem, which is a big one. I teach material that is difficult and that builds - you can't do the second assignment unless you have completed and understood the first one. When a students gets significantly behind, whether it is due to a family  emergency, working too many hours, or simply partying too much, it is extremely likely that he or she will not be able to complete the course requirements by the end of the semester. I have seen it happen over and over.
      • Another issue with INF1100
      • And I personally think this is where Harrison has dropped the ball. Time management and other necessary skills that will enable success should be taught in Strategies!
    • I'm left with the impression that they may view college as a burden and not a privilege or an honor.
    • Balancing school and work requires a high degree of organization and time management. It's *hard* - but not *impossible* especially if students spend less time watching television and less time engaged in social interaction with friends. Improved time management may help resolve some of their issues.

  • 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About | Edudemic

    A comprehensive list of web 2.0 technologies for classroom use. This could be very useful for a faculty development program!

    tags: library webtools education web2.0 web tools edtech

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Daily Library Technology and Education Links 05/17/2012

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Synching Diigo & Blogger & Saving From iPhone to Diigo

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Synching Diigo & Blogger & Saving From iPhone to Diigo
Recently I've been cleaning up a Diigo setting that allows me to post Diigo links automatically to my blog. You can see an example posting of the most recent posting here: Daily Library Technology and Education Links . As I was cleaning up the auto post, I got to thinking that there may be someone out there that doesn't know about this feature (or Diigo for that matter); so I wanted to share!

First of all, Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows you to save and annotate bookmarks. Annotation options include sticky notes, bookmarking, and highlighting features. I switched to Diigo when delicious was up in the air as to whether their service would remain in tact. I've even gone so far as to have my students submit their annotated bibliography assignments in Diigo as well (which worked EXTREMELY well!). All this to say, I have been an avid user of this tool for quite some time...and I wanted a way to automatically post specified links to my blog. 

When logged into http://www.diigo.com, you will see a Tools section at the top right of your window. There are a whole slew of features available, and for our purposes of posting links to a blog, you're looking for the Web Services section in order to choose Auto blog post. 

It's a fairly simple process. Once you've added your blog URL, it should validate without problems (you will have to enter your blogger username and password in order to complete this process).
Once you're validated, to the right you will need to click the option to Add a new job.Give it a name (this will be what the title of your blog post will be each time you auto post), include Diigo tags that you want posted to your blog (for instance, my tag of choice is library. Any link that has library as a tag will be auto posted), and I would suggest leaving the drop-down defaults as is. From here, decide your frequency of posting. Do you want a daily post? Or once a week? You decide - and then give it the time that you would like it to be posted (mine is set for 8am). Submit the job and you're done!

Now, the last thing I mentioned in the title of this post is saving to Diigo from your iPhone. I do a lot of reading on my phone; whether that's reading Twitter posts, or Google Reader feeds, I'm constantly finding links that I want to save, or articles that I want to read later. For those articles that I want to read later, I'm using Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) http://getpocket.com/ (now I just have to remember to go back and read them!). For saving to Diigo, it's a little more intense to get it set up.

I went through this method:
1) Follow this link to open Diigo for iPhone instructions: http://blog.diigo.com/2009/01/09/how-to-post-bookmarks-to-diigo-on-iphone/
2) Scroll to the comments section and click the long Javascript link (it will fail to load...that's ok).
3) Click the Share button in your browser to save this link as a bookmark.
4) In the bookmark area, change the title to reflect something like: Post to Diigo
5) You can't edit the link yet, so click Save
6) Open your bookmarks section of your browser and click Edit
7) Click your Post to Diigo link (don't click the red delete option)
8) Place your cursor on the link right after the question mark and delete everything preceeding (including the question mark).
9) Click Done

From here, you must be logged into your Diigo account, but any link you wish to save will take you to the Diigo bookmarking area where you can add a description and any tags that you wish to include.

Hopefully you've found something useful here - I personally like the easy work flow it has allowed me to have!
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Daily Library Technology and Education Links 05/16/2012

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Grading with Jing: Part of My Flipped Classroom Experience

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Back in January, I wrote a post on the Flipped Classroom method and how I planned to incorporate that type of instruction with the Information Literacy course that I teach. I haven't updated on that in quite some time (saving that for another blog post), but it's going extremely well! My post for today touches on how I'm grading some of my research assignments using a combination of Diigo and Jing. Keep reading for more info:

My students have an annotated bibliography due as their final project; but there's one issue that I continue to run into time and time again - students search for their information (websites, journal articles, and books), but they have trouble saving their sources to retrieve later. I toyed with the idea of going paperless and trying to find a way that students could save their work as they search but still be able to add notes and comments. The natural vote would be to use something like Zotero. And I tried that one quarter and ran into quite a few problems... 1) At the time, I had administrative rights and tried downloading Firefox myself to each computer lab desktop. That's fine well and good if I'm logged in...but students couldn't see it under their own log ins. 2) I then turned to the portable firefox option. The only problem was... I only tested it under my account. It worked like a charm, but immediately when the students tried to access portable firefox from their flash-drive under their student log in, an administrative rights error occurred. 

I then had to think on my feet and decided to log into a select few computers under my own log in. This worked fine, but students had to work in groups and they really couldn't save their own work for later use. It was a disaster to say the least!

So, for this quarter, I decided to go a different route and use a social bookmarking tool (Diigo). Students created individual accounts, installed the Diigolet toolbar (a bookmarklet) and went to town saving their sources as they searched. It has worked PERFECTLY! Below is a screenshot of a website being saved, but it also works with databases (extremely well with EBSCO), and our OPAC. 
You can see in the image to the left that students are required to give an APA citation for the source they find, and then to provide a summary that details what the article entails. All they give me is their Diigo url (the formula is http://www.diigo.com/user/usernamegoeshere) and I can instantly see their work and grade it accordingly.

And speaking of grading, that's really what this post is supposed to focus on. I toyed with how I was going to officially grade from the Diigo url's. 
1) Do I try to comment within Diigo? I never could find a feasible way to do this without opening a diigo group...and I didn't want an extra step for my students (I'm using the K.I.S.S. method!)
2) Do I refer to their Diigo url and then type specific comments into our LMS? This seemed like an ok option, but it also seemed to defeat the purpose of using Diigo...I wanted to find a way to look at their work and grade it on the same page.

Enter Jing! I love love love Jing. I use it every day...multiple times a day. I rarely use Jing as a video screencasting tool - mainly I utilize it as a screencapturing tool that allows me to annotated a screen image. With each Diigo assignment, I'm only grading 3 sources at a time, so generally that fits nicely within one browser window. I can easily capture the whole page and then start marking it up with arrows and text. Here's an example to the left.

It's so so easy! Jing allows you the capability of saving the image to your computer, copying and pasting, or - my favorite - sharing via a screencast link. This is what I send my students (the link that is). They're able to click the link, read my comments, and immediately know what sources I'm referring to because it's visual. 

That's it for now - more tips coming soon from my flipped classroom experience!
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