Today's Frustrations

As I prepare to wrap up my 2nd C4T unit, I am running into some snags. I realize this is "part of the plan", but it is discouraging nonetheless. We are using the old laptops in AP Biology today and we are attempting to upload annotated (highlighted and sticky noted) articles that are related to each student's research paper topic (connected to biotechnology). The problems we are running in to include: the diigo server being "down" (or at least not connecting to our outdated computers); the current version ogf firefox not being compatible with diigo (we were able to circumvent this with the diigolet function on safari); the difficulty of making all comments and sticky notes public (at least for our group); having some annotated articles disappearing on student computers (but still being available on the teacher computer); the inability to comment on another student's workwithout the appearance that it is now the commenter's post; and that's just the ones I can think of at this point in time. Things did seem to work a bit better 6th period compared to 4th, but it is still quite a work in progress. Perhaps with Toby's help on Wednesday, I can straighten some of this out - hopefully.