Blog 5

Through my education technology class, we were asked to use Diigo. I don't know if you have ever heard of Diigo, because I haven't before now. It is this handy tool that lets you bookmark websites, annotate websites and PDFs, and allows you to share them with groups. I like that you are able to communicate with your class and share websites that you find. I also like that you are able to highlight annotate websites because it helps to save paper if you are doing research, as well as making it easy to find important information if you were to revisit the website. The only thing that I am not really a fan of about this tool is that it is only available on chrome. it should be available for every browser so that more people can have access to it.

We were also asked to make this blog for my education class. I, personally am not a fan of blogs. I don't like to share every detail of my life and every experience online. It is a great tool for communication but I believe there are others that are better suited for me. This website in particular is very easy to use. I haven't made a blog before, and this site is very easy to maneuver for beginners. I do wish that there is more opportunity to customize the blog though. I want to make it more my own and there isn't an easy way to do that. Through this process I have learned how to blog and respond to others' blogs. Again, this is something I haven't been familiar with and my knowledge about blogging  has grown every step of the way.

The Web 2.0 tool that I picked to review is Linoit. This website is an interactive site for the classroom where students can collaborate as a whole. This virtual experience entails students placing virtual sticky notes all over a virtual bulletin board. I love this idea. It is very similar to what I did as a student except mine wasn't virtual. I love this idea because people can share their thoughts, ideas, and questions but not have it attached to their name. This is very helpful because a lot of times students are too scared to ask a question or share in front of an entire class but this gets rid of the pressure that students might feel. In turn this allows me to provide better lessons because I am better able to gage the students' understanding and answer all of the questions that they might have.

Here is the link to Linoit and I also found an EXAMPLE for this activity
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