This week I have experimented with Diigo and ventured into
the world of the cloud. Diigo is a next
generation social bookmarking service that allows its users to generate
modified content to pre-existing webpages giving you the ability to highlight,
tag, comment and add sticky notes to any webpage. This allows you to easily share and
collaborate with others in your online personal learning network by posting
things to your social media, or quickly and easily connecting them to your blog. Being able to share webpages is common place
amongst groups who are working on research projects, and friends who are just
trying to get through classes together.
The ability to share pre-existing webpages after highlighting or adding
sticky notes to them is a great practice for students and teachers alike. I
personally have shared hundreds of webpages, and sent corresponding emails or
texts along with them. The ability to annotate on the webpage itself through
highlighting and sticky notes simplifies that process, and allows for greater
clarity. Having things saved to the cloud only makes life easier. As someone
who has little experience with cloud technology it is very simple and a
fantastic way to link everything together nicely. Through Diigo and the cloud
all of my bookmarks are saved to a spot where I am capable of accessing them
from any one of my computers. My favourite feature of Diigo aside from the
toolbar making it easy to highlight and sticky note, is the ease of sharing the
information by adding the link to my blog or social media website.
Through the exploration of bookmarking tools, I have come to
realize how beneficial they truly are. The ability to create my own webpage
through Diigo allows me to follow only relevant articles, which I can use in my
studies and papers. Thanks to Diigo, I
am able to organize articles, which I know are both credible and current. This
saves me time and effort and allows me to accomplish more in a shortened period
of time. I can also see how this will
help me with group projects and many other school endeavours in the future.
Tagging bookmarks with specific titles enables me to quickly connect with
different subjects. At first it would appear difficult to label Diigo into my
PLE diagram because Diigo could fit into all four of the categories. Diigo definitely helps gather and organize
and an argument could be made that it allows sharing, and connecting as
well.
To date this course has quickly become very humbling. I was under the assumption that I was technologically advanced but it turns out, I'm not. Having no experience with many of these tools we are beginning to work with (RSS feeds, online cloud based bookmarks, google alerts…) I am pleasantly surprised how beneficial all of this technology can be.
While spending some time with my new tools (Feedly and Diigo) I came across this article on symbaloo which gives the ability to embed various web 2.0 tools from across the internet. Tools like Google Docs, Flickr, Slideshare, TeacherTube and more. Which is something I have bookmarked to look at later possibly as another great tool.
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