Michelle DeSilva (mdesilva)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Middle school social studies teacher.

I am interested in Travel,Wine,Reading,Cooking,Coffee,Thrift Stores,Boutiques,Cottages,Movies,Old Book Stores,Museums,Photography,Walking on the Beach,Marketplaces,Wineries,Festivals,Gardens,Tea Houses,Flea Markets and most importantly spending time with family and friends..

Member since Jun 10, 2009, follows 35 people, 10 public groups, 106 public bookmarks (115 total).

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Google's New Assessment Tool - Fusion Tables on 2009-11-09
- First, setup Google Apps for education, it's free, and allows your teachers to collaborate on documents / spreadsheets. Next, create a wiki-spreadsheet for your school that has a column for the student, grade, teacher, class, and then any and every evaluative point throughout the year. That's it - no formulas or charts. All your teachers easily enter in the data, letting Google handle the work flow. Then, whenever you, or your teachers, or your data teams want, you fire up Fusion Tables and visualize the data.
Google Wave: A Complete Guide on 2009-11-05
Creative Projects to Share- Graphic Novels, Twitter Role Plays, Cold War Facebook, and Prezi! - National Council for the Social Studies on 2009-11-05
EXCLUSIVE: Secrets of Google's 3-D Mars, Moon on 2009-11-05
What is Web 3.0? Semantic Web & other Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English on 2009-11-05
Social Studies American Government US & World History Economics Geography Psychology and more! on 2009-11-04
Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave on 2009-11-02
TeachPaperless: Response to a Criticism about Using Twitter in the Classroom on 2009-11-02
- If your students aren't able to handle using Twitter like this, then you don't have a problem with Twitter; you have a problem with classroom management.
- incorporating ongoing discussions of digital citizenship into your lessons.
  - Michelle DeSilva on 2009-11-02
    
    I agree with this and hope that schools begin teaching more lessons on digital citizenship as well as digital literacy. We taught both at the private school I was at last year but have noticed that my students this year in the public school are lacking in those skills.
10 tools for presenting with Twitter : Speaking about Presenting on 2009-10-23
The Fischbowl Presentations on 2009-10-11

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Classroom 2.0

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A place for members of www.Classroom20.com to share links, Classroom 2.0 is social networking site devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development.
Clif's Notes on EdTech

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Resources on Education, Technology and More.
Cool Tools & Ed Tech

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This group is for cool tools on the web as well as useful resources in education and technology. Go ahead...share.
Discovery Educator Network

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This group is for educators to aggregate content from Discovery Educator Network events, institutes, conference presentations, webinars, blogs, and workshops.
educators

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Educators sharing bookmarks and best practice. We have a set of standard tags to help us share things that you may use in addition to your tags. (You may subscribe to these tags via RSS feed by subject area, which makes it very useful.)