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Diigo (1 of 3): Organize Your Research with Diigo
Diigo (2 of 3): Online Collaboration Using Diigo Groups
Diigo (3 of 3): Diigo for Educators
Explore Careers with the Occupational Outlook Handbook
How Presentation Zen Fixed my Bad PowerPoints
How to Create a GoAnimate Video
How to Feng Shui Your Microsoft Word Tables
How to Use VolunteerSpot
Organize Your Research with Diigo (part 1 of 3)
Diigo is a fantastic online bookmarking tool that is ideal for organizing your online research projects. Because Diigo has so much to offer, our tutorial has been split into three parts. This first part covers the basics for one individual users — it will help you learn how to use it, and will be useful for your student researchers as well.
Read our full article on Diigo.
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Online Collaboration Using Diigo Groups (Part 2 of 3)
Another great thing about Diigo is that it allows you to form research groups with other people. This lets multiple users bookmark sites to the same list and comment on each other’s bookmarked items.
Diigo for Educators (Part 3 of 3)
This last video shows you some of the special features Diigo reserves just for educators.
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Explore Careers with the Occupational Outlook Handbook
Okay, yes, this sounds kind of boring. But the OOH has this really cool tool for figuring out jobs that are right for you, enabling you to filter for salary, required education, and projected new jobs in the field. If you work with kids anywhere from grade 6 through college, this would be an excellent tool to help them plan a career path. Watch this quick tutorial and you’ll see what I mean:
This tool was one of several recommended sites in our article about how to help students plan their careers.
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How Presentation Zen Fixed My Bad PowerPoints
In this video, I show you how I applied the principles of Presentation Zen to overhaul a few of my poorly designed PowerPoint slides.
Read our full article about Presentation Zen.
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How to Create a GoAnimate Video
All I can say about GoAnimate is that it is SO FRICKIN’ COOL. It’s an online tool that allows you to create your own animated videos. It would work for you as a teacher, or for student products. I’m not doing it justice. You need to watch:
Read our full article about GoAnimate.
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How to Feng Shui Your Microsoft Word Tables
Feng Shui can be applied to all sorts of spaces, including our documents. Even if your content is strong, really important, or perfectly clear, it can disappear in a badly designed document. Using a few basic design principles — like sufficient white space and consistency in fonts — and a few tools in Microsoft Word, I show you how to take a badly designed table and transform it into something clean, calming, and easy to read.
Read our full article about Microsoft Word tables.
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How to Use VolunteerSpot
If you use a lot of paper sign-up sheets or reply-all emails to organize events, it’s time to enter the 21st century. VolunteerSpot is an easy tool for keeping sign-ups online. They even e-mail volunteers a day or two before the event, and you don’t have to lift a finger. It’s an ideal way to coordinate parent-teacher conferences, potlucks, and parent volunteers. Here’s how it works:
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