Another
week, and another application. This week
we researched and used Diigo. This was
interesting to me, as I had never thought about organizing bookmarks. Diigo is an application that allows the user
to house bookmarked URLs in one location and add notes, annotations, and tags
to them, so they are easier to access for the user.
The
set-up was relatively simple. We were
asked to upgrade to the free teacher version; however, as I do not have an
active educator email, I was unable to do this.
I am hoping that the limits I found for this application are answered
when teachers use the educator side. I
was able to join the Diigo for the class #etec527. I went ahead and installed the chrome add on,
so I could easily link information to my account. After searching for a website or video, I
could click on the d in the upper right corner, and it would automatically add
it to my list and add tags for sorting later.
It is a quick and easy feature that allows everything to be saved in one
location. I was not able to add Diigo to
my main Protopage as a website, but I was able to place it as a bookmark on one
of my tabs in Protopage.
I
can see many benefits to this application.
If you are a teacher that has a desktop computer, doesn’t have a special
drive on the school’s hard drive to save documents, bookmarks, etc. too, this
would allow you to have access when relocated or if you needed to find
information at another location other than your classroom. I am not one that usually bookmarks
information. I tend to find what I need
when I need it and either save it to my desktop or to my google drive. I don’t like that the platform is so
wordy. I don’t see this being of benefit
to any small children in elementary or even middle school. This tool could be used in the professional and
upper school levels for student/teacher use.
I see how this would have been useful for me when looking for articles
in databases. I was just creating a word
doc and pasting the URLs into it; this would have been easier to keep a running
compilation of possible articles to reference.
I
tweeted a few times this week. I am
still grasping Twitter and really only like it when using the Tweet Deck
application. I find the main platform of
Twitter not as user friendly as Tweet Deck.
Ironically, my husband got locked out of Twitter this week and has been
in withdrawal and mourning. His account
was hacked, and when he fills out the form for Twitter to release his
information, the form won’t load, nor is there anyway to contact Twitter via any
customer service phone number, email, or website. I found it interesting that the only way to
reach out was via an online form. He is
debating starting a new account; he uses twitter for his main news and sports
sources.
The
Twitter playlists are one of my favorite features about having a YouTube
channel. I did find one huge drawback,
and that is you cannot save to a playlist if a video is marked safe for
children. I wanted to create a channel
for celebrities reading children’s books from Storybookonline, and I was not given
the option to save them. This is a huge
drawback for me as a librarian or for someone needing to save videos for
elementary students.
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