Being that spring break is upon us, I thought that I would share some reading week ideas with you! After looking through my feedly, I came across a Student City Blog . This blog talks about different spring break packages and cool destinations you can go last minute! The blog shares what a day is like in different destinations, which helps you decided where you would be interested in going! Unfortunately I use this feed to just live vicariously through travelers, as I am always busy studying on reading week!
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| Student City Blog, 2016 |
Throughout this week’s session, I learned a lot about a new tool called Evernote. It has so many fascinating uses and I think it is a really good tool for university students like myself to use. This was my first time learning or ever hearing about Evernote and I believe it has some really similar uses as Diigo as it is also a form of bookmarking. I am able to track my work and all my life’s information in an organized manner. I am able to control my information allowing for extra time in my daily researching routine. It also allows you to share and tag key words almost like twitter and Diigo. I find Evernote really reliable as I am able to grant my information from anywhere at anytime. How Evernote works is any websites or information I find…gets transferred in to a “elephant cloud” which automatically categorize my information. I love this tool because I am I huge organization freak and I hate wasting time trying to re-find research. This will be very useful in my educational activities because for example, when I am doing a research project it is very time sufficient and I will be able to collect several forms of information on a single webpage so my information will be organized.
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| Limav, 2016 |
These valid and reliable online bookmarks contribute to my work in building knowledge both in and out of school. I would definitely add this tool in to my personal learning environment or even my network because I can use this tool daily as a university student. When adding this tool to my PLE I would absolutely put this under my organization category and even creating. I would put it under creating because this tool is a major stepping-stone leading up to creating a final research project or presentation as it provides the foundation of my research. Organization represents this tool well as I am able to categorize all my notes under different tabs which is very sufficient for things like note taking and like I said before research!!
This tool along with many others I have learned about in this course (twitter, diigo, ect) are helping me grow technologically. Each and every week I am learning more and more about becoming a digital citizen and gaining digital literacy. As my awareness of different tools are constantly increasing I find that I am able to use my time more wisely and in turn benefiting my educational journey.
Thanks for reading!!
Jess
Hi Jessica,
ReplyDeleteYou note "I am able to control my information allowing for extra time in my daily researching routine."
I think that you have identified a really important point when it comes to online information. It needs to be organized and controlled. So much time can be wasted sifting through the sheer volume that exists.
Enjoy using the new tools as you research.
Sheila