I try to keep the teachers, in the schools in which I teach, up to date with relevant web resources. If I come upon something interesting, I will shoot them an email with a link to the site. Actually, I just found a potentially helpful site for special ed teachers in the Free Technology for Teachers blog that I mentioned in a previous post. I shot the Sped director, inclusion specialist and the sped teachers that use a program called Boardmaker, a site that offers free boards. They all replied and were going to look into the resource. I have had teachers come to me and thank me for the sites that I refer to them. The sites are being put to good use.
So-when I discovered Diigo I thought, "this is great!" I just have to invite the teachers to join and just add the websites to a private group. They could be notified when there was a new site-and it would always be on this site. So..I invited the teachers to join and did not receive even 1 response..I was OK-did not take this personally. Most of the teachers, even the young teachers, are not that comfortable with technology.
This brought me to the idea that this would be a great application for professional development. If the teachers were introduced to social bookmarking in a non-threatening environment, I'm sure that many would buy into it. They just need to "play" with it and become comfortable.
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I like Diigo-I never heard of it before, so I checked it out. I want to think of some way to use it personally-then the classroom. Very cool. It is too bad that people don't become more enthused. I invited a bunch of people to my blog a few years ago, and no one did anything. That is why I let it go. Now I am going to use it anyway. Playing is a great idea-I think it is one of the best ways to learn.
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