This has been the week when blooming has really begun. Azaleas have been at it for a week or so, and now the dogwoods and cherry blossoms are in full swing. Everyday when I look out my window, I see new leaves on something different. Everything is coated in yellow.
But there’s more than just spring going on here! I made major progress on the portfolios that I need to review (my advisees). I started with those who are Marathoning on April 14.
I tried using Diigo and it’s great. However, for our purpose, we needed to be “Friends” before I annotated your website. Therefore, in all cases so far, I’ve used a GoogleDoc to privately show you my feedback. Please feel free to join Diigo and become my “Friend” – my “name” is Mfitzger. In future, I believe we will be able to share web page comments privately if we are Friends. (Yes, you can show the world your annotations and comments – but that’s a little too social for this academic purpose!)
I have a few more to go and will announce when I think I’m finished – in case you’re wondering if I’ve done yours yet. I will not have time to review folks who are not my advisees, unfortunately.
Stepping back for a second, look at the tools we are using. Without this blog, GoogleDocs, Diigo, and Del.ici.ous, this review task would have been much more difficult. Even last year we were printing out the Checklist and passing those around.
I’m on the lookout for a tool that will allow me to record an audio message of 5-10 minutes and email it to the intended recipient. If you know of a free tool for this, let me know!
Hi, Glad that you and your group has discovered Diigo! Hope you find it useful.
I have added some highlight and sticky note on this page in response to one of your comment.
Please note that there are many ways of sharing annotated pages in Diigo. As a diigo user with diigo toolbar / diigolet installed, you can annotate on any webpage. Your annotations can be made public, private or shared to a group. You can also use our forward function to email your annotated page. Our forward is very “special” ~ since we embed the annotation within the forward, the recipient can actually see your annotated page without being a diigo user or any diigo software installed.
Similarly, another way to share your annotated page with anyone (even non diigo users) is to use our new “Get Annotated Link” feature.
Basically, an annotated link is a special URL provided by Diigo that allows you to share the current webpage complete with highlights and sticky notes to anyone (who doesn’t even need to have diigo software installed!) For example, here is the AnnotatedLink for this page:
http://www.diigo.com/annotated/16e848ddfc542712c42ac24ce24de295
To get that, just go to the new diigo toolbar, diigo>>This URL>>Get Annotated Link.
There are lots of great features to explore in the new Diigo V3. You’re welcome to explore or come join us at our user forum for any Q&A.
Welcome to the diigo community!
Best,
Maggie Tsai
co-founder
diigo
Hi!
Try Audacity at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ . This is what I use to record podcasts.
When I took Adolescent Literature at UGA last summer, Dr. Marshall used audio files to give us feedback on our papers. I LOVED getting feedback this way (especially since that class was all online and asynchronous).
I don’t know what he used to record the audio, but you could ask him.