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21 Jun 09

WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…

I am using this feature at NECC quite a bit - you can turn bookmarks into webslides. It is very useful and helpful!

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20 Apr 08

facilitatortips » Online Surveys and Forms

Incredible wiki page about online surveys and forms. I highly recommend that we begin to have our students conduct surveys as part of authentic research. This is an excellent page about this topic. (The rest of the wiki is nice as well.)

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08 Apr 08

A Threat So Big, Academics Try Collaboration - New York Times

Fascinating article about cross-disciplinary collaboration. This is becoming something that is possible through new means of using the Internet.

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aimed at getting students and professors from different disciplines to collaborate in studying the environmental ramifications of production and consumption.

01 Apr 08

Today's spies find secrets in plain sight - USATODAY.com

Open source now has a new meaning -- the traditional term has meant "open source software" but now, increasingly it is meaning "open source information" -- as US spy agencies are talking about the use of more open source information, or information taken from openly available and free sources on the Internet.

As we teach new terminology and how to understand the words that make our world meaningful, it is increasingly important to teach students to watch and understand the evolution of language. This is an excellent case study.

This is also an important term and article to be reviewed by students involved in the Horizon project that are analyzing government trends and our changing world.

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Now, however, the President's Daily Brief and other crucial intelligence reports often rely less on secrets from risky espionage missions than on material that's available to just about anyone.
Such material is known as "open-source intelligence" or, in the acronym-laden parlance of the 16 federal agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, OSINT. The explosion of information available via the Internet and other public sources has pushed the collection and analysis of that material to the top of the official priority list in the spy world, intelligence officials say.
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- Federal commissions repeatedly have criticized the intelligence community for not moving more quickly and aggressively to exploit open-source information.
- Every potentially useful nugget must be vetted because enemy states and terror groups, such as al-Qaeda, sometimes use the Internet and other open channels to put out misleading information.
- The CIA has set up an Open Source Center, based in a nondescript office building in suburban Washington, where officers pore over everything from al-Qaeda-backed websites to papers distributed at science and technology symposiums, says Douglas Naquin, the center's director.
- Other agencies, such as the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency, are training scores of analysts to mine open sources and giving many of them desktop Internet access
- national security officials also are grappling with the flip side of the open-source phenomenon: making sure sensitive information held by the government, businesses and even individuals doesn't slip into the same sort of public outlets that U.S. intelligence agencies are scrutinizing.
- Open sources can provide up to 90% of the information needed to meet most U.S. intelligence needs

29 Mar 08

This morning I came here before I went to twitter. This seems to be the place to be right now. Sti | Diigo Message System

This is a very honest, open discussion between educators about why diigo or delicious -- I think the fact we can have this conversation within diigo at all says a lot for the usefulness of the tool. Diigo is an emerging tool for social bookmarking and collective intelligence.

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Lisa Parisi

This morning I came here before I went to twitter. This seems to be the place to be right now. Still not sure of all the groupings, taggings, etc. Reading what everyone writes and hoping to get it soon
Will play on Sunday with Karen McMillan and Alice Barr. Anyone else want to join? Anyone want to teach?
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- Ryan Bretag
  
  I'll join in the fun if you'll have me. Let me know time when you know.
- I was going to present 20 minutes on Del.icio.us, but I may show Diigo instead - or both - or 20 minutes is not enough....
- This new version "appears" to have fixed that issue, plus I've been impressed with the new features.
- Caroline Obannon
  
  I'm second guessing teaching only del.icio.us myself, too.
- Liz Davis
  
  I'm wondering if Diigo is too much for the newbie. Delicious is so simple and obviously useful. I'm afraid Diigo would scare some people away. I'm still inclined to start with delicious and save Diigo for my more advanced users (of which I have very few).
- Maybe overwhelming would describe my feelings.
- However, I can defely think of quite a few people who would balk at it, too and favor the simplicity of Del.icio.us.
- but most likely wouldn't participate in the social/sharing aspects they offer.
- The nice thing about the Diigo toolbar is that you can select which buttons to see, so for those who might find the extra choices of tools overwhelming, it can at least be customized.
- I'm feeling a Diigo obsession building. As soon as Explorer comes up I check to see if there are any messages in Diigo. How nice of them to put that number right on my toolbar!
- I created my very first List last night,
- Kristin Hokanson
  
  Liz I think it may be too much ially for the newbie and I will continue to send to delicious.
- There is one feature that I REALLY like and that is that you can EMAIL something you are tagging so for folks who LIKE to get those sites emailed, you can still meet their needs without an extra step yourself
- I second that. I like Diigo, but del.icio.us simplicity is so inviting.
- The value of Diigo is that it brings a number of tools together allowing for multiple entry points. The old training model is show them a tool from start to finish that goes over every single detail. With Diigo, why show everything to those new to all this? It is rather easy to click into your bookmarks. From there, teachers have a space they can grow. It also provides a wonderful opportunity to differentiate with your teachers -- the whole multiple points of entry.
- still I will have fun, exploring it and making effective use of it.
- it is the ease of integration with blogging and twitter -- I annotated a page yesterday and pulled it directly into my blog. I can twitter bookmark that is important quickly -- AND I can use the tagging standards for the horizon project without having to remember the darn tags -- tag dictionaries are the most useful things to have been invented in a LONG time -- we need to set them up within one of our educational groups!
- I don' t think I would not teach delicious. But perhaps starting with delicious and saving Diigo for later is a good idea.
- I do find this site to be much more powerful and useful than delicious. I never really used delicious to its full potential. The fact that I am here just chatting with folks makes me want to stay and contribute to the collective knowledge.
- We are conversing about the usefulness of diigo and I thought you might like to be included.
- Maggie Tsai has invited Wade Ren to this conversation
- Are you guys planning a Sunday get-together? If so, please advise the time - I'd love to join you and help answering any question.
- Howdy! Wow, what can I say? Diigo is a lot more than delicious. If CoolCat Vicki hadn't written about Diigo again, I probably would have stuck with Delicious...and,if I hadn't been using Twitter, blogs, played around with Facebook, the social networking side of Diigo would have been just so much MORE to learn.
- my concern would be to NOT limit learners in workshop sessions to the path I followed in learning these tools. Simply, folks, here is a tool that will grow as you grow and learn more about living and contributing in an interconnected world. The ability to have conversations like this, to annotate web pages, to share relevant quotes and tweet as needed...makes me wonder at the need for blogs at all.
- A few folks are considering exploring Diigo on Sunday morning and having a conversation about it now...join in and learn with us!

28 Mar 08

Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness

This incredible chart says it all about the importance of wiki collaboration. This should also be a message to bloated bureaucracies looking to squeeze that last bit of efficiency out of already overworked staff. This is an important chart for horizon project students to include, I believe.

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