Mary Hillis (mhillis)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I am an EFL teacher in Japan. My interests include online professional development, blogging, literature, vocabulary, and writing. I am a member of the online communities of practice, Learning with Computers, Webheads, and Blogging4Educators.

I am interested in teaching,learning,education,blogging,literature,microblogging,ESL,EFL,web 2.0,social media,online professional development,online communities of practice,writing.

Member since May 22, 2008, follows 54 people, 19 public groups, 2983 public bookmarks (3365 total).

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Recent Tags:	greatgatsby(10), creatingmeaning(10), reading(8), personalliteracies(6), poetry(6), brain(6), books(4), writingcenter(4), creativity(4), neuroscience(4), writing(4), sewing(4), camus(3), education(3), literature&brain(3), humanities(3), fiction of relationships(3), crafts(3), storytelling(3), justice(2)
Top Tags:	books(122), literature(89), writing(89), japan(79), teaching(79), humanities(75), esl(73), americanstudies(68), twitter(67), creatingmeaning(60)

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Recent Bookmarks and Annotations

Girlebooks on May 07, 14
Tolstoy on the Importance of Books and Literacy in Prisons | Tolstoy Therapy on May 07, 14
April 3, 1920: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald Get Married and One of History’s Most Turbulent Romances Ensues, Recounted in Zelda’s Letter | Brain Pickings on May 07, 14
What on earth is a death cafe? | Life and style | The Guardian on May 07, 14
Albert Camus Wins the Nobel Prize & Sends a Letter of Gratitude to His Elementary School Teacher (1957) - Open Culture | Open Culture on May 07, 14
NaPoWriMo on May 07, 14
Why Teaching Poetry Is So Important - Andrew Simmons - The Atlantic on May 07, 14
My Students Don't Know How to Have a Conversation - Paul Barnwell - The Atlantic on May 07, 14
Born in Japan, made in America | The Japan Times on May 07, 14
TESOL Connections - April 2014: Poetry Special Issue on May 07, 14

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CALL_IS_VSL

351 members, 2730 items

Useful items on the web for teachers of ESL/EFL and their students. Please see our tag library at the CALL IS moodle: http://www.call-is.org/moodle/, or in our Group Forum.To add bookmarks easily, please add a Diigo toolbar or Diigolet button to your browser. (You can hide it from the >View >Toobar menu in Firefox, or similar function in other browsers.)
Digital Storytelling

32 members, 60 items

Part of the Electronic Village Online Session 2011 and beyond. Sharing our digital storytelling resources to make a difference.<br />A TESOL-CALL-IS project.http://digistorytelling.pbworks.com
Digital Tools for the Classroom

63 members, 132 items

Part of the Electronic Village Online 2012. http://classdigitools.pbworks.com Interested in learning about new web tools for your classroom? Come and learn about digital tools with purpose. Be part of an international group of educators who are always looking to share best practices fro
Diigo In Education

57445 members, 29495 items

“Diigo In Education” - Phase I just released. More to come.. Share your classroom usecase, ideas, reviews, features, and wishlists for making Diigo a great resource and platform in teaching and learning. Let's explore the full potential of Diigo as an educational tool.
educators

2598 members, 15176 items

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.) Fully disclose WHY you want to join and who you are. SPAMMERS not welcome. If you don't use good netiquette and disclose this, you will delay your approval.