Weekly Report & Reflection blog post #4

Hey again!

WebstreatECT, (2010).

This week I learned a lot when exploring bookmarking, the use of tagging, and how they will be useful in my educational activities. I learned about a new bookmarking tool called Diigo which is a cloud based personal information management system. I found it really interesting because it provides us all with tools on all major web browsers such as google chrome and Firefox. This really made me realize how much more technology is out there that I have not yet experienced nor know about. Diigo will be extremely helpful and useful in my educational activities because it provides me with a quick snapshot of current contents of a particular topic that I am interested in just like RSS feeds do! It allows me too collect and access a variety of resources that I have previously visited by bookmarking them so I do not loose my pages. I also learned that Diigo allows you to make digital highlights and sticky notes on different websites, blogs, or articles that you are reading so you can keep note of important facts or interesting parts of the article that you like or find relevant. I think that this is going to be very beneficial to my education because it is very time sufficient as it ables you to revisit pages and continue where you left off. The Key Values of Diigo are research, sharing, and collaborating which are all important in turns of expanding my digital literacy and personal learning environment. Another benifit to using Diigo is that all my data is stored on a cloud on my library so I can open it regardless of what computer or device I am on. Diigo also is really fascinating because I can share with others, and see what others read, tag, or post which is helpful in expanding my knowledge and sharing my thoughts. Valid and reliable online bookmarks contribute to my work in building knowledge because Diigos capture feature allows me to make side notes on certain websites to I can expand on the information infront of me as well as make useful connections to others ideas. Overall, I believe that Diigo makes my web search much more productive and it makes sharing and collaborating so much easier. It is not only beneficial to myself but many other digital learners as it aims to dramatically improve online productivity.

After learning a lot about Diigo bookmarking I would categorize it under organization and socialization. The reason for organization is for obvious reasons as you can organize your bookmarks by adding tags to different links and associations. I would also put bookmarking under socialization because you are able to share and collaborate your bookmarks with others.  I will continue to use this bookmarking website as it is very helpful to keep me well organized, and if I forget my computer at home, I will still be able to access my bookmarks from another device on campus. Throughout this session I think that I am becoming more digitally literate as I am using several different web browsers and making use of them leading to my digital footprint growing more and more each week.

Write again next week!
Jess