Happy Thursday!! What a beautiful day to reflect on my learning experiences thus far in our educational technology class. So far, we've been tweeting nonstop, writing website evaluations with PB Works, and working on our ILPs too! Today, I'd like to speak about my experiences with Diigo, blogging, and Web 2.0 tools. Scroll down to check it out:)
Diigo has been an interesting tool we've been using. It only works through Google Chrome, which is unfortunate as I try my best to stay away from Chrome. What Diigo does is allows the viewer to add highlights and annotations to any website, blog, journal article prior to posting it to the group Diigo through the website. In my opinion, this is a tool that I would not use in my own classroom. I feel that the layout and user interface is not organized nor user friendly. I will stick to bookmarking and commenting in other ways.
Blogging has been super fun! I've enjoyed reading all of the comments and communicating with my classmates in that way. I also think that my blog design itself is super appealing to the eye. It has been helpful reflecting on our class and all of the discussions we've had thus far. I think that in my prospective future classroom, blogging could be something that I could introduce to my class, depending on the grade level. Of course, with proper supervision because I think it could get out of hand very easily, similarly to twitter.
A Web 2.0 resource that we have not used thus far in our class is YouTube. As we all are probably familiar with YouTube, I will give a brief overview of what exactly it is. It is a website in which individuals create an account with their username and password and have the ability to search for videos (can be informative, funny, or just plain stupid). From there, the person can share, comment, or like the video. People can upload their own videos and even collaborate with others in the process. I think that this would be a great tool to use in my classroom, depending on the age, as I could upload my own educational video or provide an overview of content previously learned. This can be done at home and sent to the students via email or online portal. One of my teachers in high school would do this with math problems not covered in class. It was super beneficial as I had the ability to pause the video whenever I wanted and return to it whenever.
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I really enjoyed your perspective. I actually hadn't really thought about using diigo in the classroom, but now that I think about it i'm not sure if I would use it either. Especially for elementary students.
ReplyDeleteI liked what you wrote about Diigo not being very user friendly. I'd have to agree with that. There is definitely quite the process to go through to learn it. And you can only do so many PDFs with the free version!
ReplyDeleteYou're right about Diigo being somewhat difficult to use. And what an awesome math teacher you had to post YouTube videos! That's a tool I will definitely use in the future if covering difficult music theory topics.
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