5 Reasons to get started with Diigo

Organise – As you bookmark each page, tag it with keywords, which makes it easier to find later. You can tag sites with multiple tags. Highlight – Select interesting passages from the text of the website and highlight them for quick reference later. This is great for those undertaking any research, particularly if you are…

Taking attendance for a a class that’s not on your timetable.

Occasionally, teachers will be asked to cover for colleagues who can’t themselves be there. In these cases, you need to be able to mark attendance for a class that’s not on your timetable.  Here’s how (thanks to Hemantha Dissanayake for the screen shots). How to take attandance for another teacher from United World College of…

Linking to other sites from your Studywiz course page.

This tutorial shows you how you can use your Studywiz course page to link to other sites like a blog, or Google site.  The suggested process has you editing the course’s Information page.  You can put different types of information here like a course overview simply by pasting from an existing document or writing with…

Presentations – design matters

During our Professional Learning meeting in the Primary School, we focused on improving our presentations to parents. Our core message was that less is more. We encouraged teachers to think from the perspective of their audience, and focused on 2 easy ways to improve the design of presentations: Use fabulous images Use less text Fazree…