Thing 1- Diigo

www.diigo.com/user/cvandermeulen

I'm hooked, Diigo is an amazing collaboration and educational tool for teachers.  This is going to be a great tool to help my students and their parents find quality websites that will allow them help their students get a quick refresher or practice skills taught in class.  Also, it will help me be more productive because I don't have to try and remember all the good sites that I find for my students by memory or go back to my computer to get the web addresses.  When I use them in class or the computer lab, I can have students go right to my diigo page to pull up the website to practice instead of having them type in the address (a huge waste of time with 30 elementary students).  Finally, I can't wait to set up an account that my students and parents can access where we can communicate back and forth.  It will save on a lot of phone calls to parents. 

Thing 1- Short Cuts

Wow, Jing and the shortcuts are really going to make life a lot easier and make all the things I create way more useful and interesting with captured pictures that have notes.  Three of the shortcuts that will be most beneficial to me are the control k hyperlink feature for my classroom newsletter, control z (zap) for undoing things, and control f  to find a word quickly.  Using these features will definately increase my productivity because I won't have to do wasted clicking and searching to implement changes and I won't have to reread the whole document to find certain words.  However, the underline feature in the Wacky shortcuts didn't work for me, not sure why. 

Just trying it out.