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I will admit when this was assigned I wasn’t really looking forward to it. First, I was a bit confused on how to get started. (It might have been helpful for me to more attentive to the ins and out that Diigo offered us at the beginning after making the account, but I honestly assumed since I feel fairly competent with technology that I could handle this with ease.) Well, that is not how it worked out at the beginning and I had to seek out further directions on us it effectively.
Once I figured out at least the basics of how to manage the page, I liked the idea. I think the idea of being about to bookmark online and have one place that I could reach from any device sounds intriguing and time-saving. On a side note, I have bookmarked officially on a MacBook a bit, but that was only for that one device and I did not keep up with it. I have also sloppily bookmarked on other devices by just dragging a website to a home screen. This was majorly ineffective because all it was clutter up the home screen with numerous icons and then I would just delete them or drag them all to a folder to look through later—and sadly later, just never came or comes.
When Professor Bigenho gave the “gifts” again it took me a little time to understand the gifts and how I could “receive them.” I then discovered the little bitty disk icon where I could save it to my library. When I figured it out, I was like “gimme, gimme, gimme” and I think I took too many gifts and had to spend some time organizing it. I made a couple of my own bookmarks—one for Keynote, financial literacy, PBLs, and Coppa in response to an assignment from this class and assignments from another class. Once I started creating the bookmarks by adding the tags, the ease and usefulness of the site showed itself. I was able to share a few with our class, ETEC 527. The items I choose to share correlated with the class project.
I do know that I need to continue to work on the organization of it. Hopefully, I will continue to see the value and use it.
I did just notice the request to join the education in Diigo was granted and there are a ton more places for me to explore here and files for me to save to my library.
Let the adventure continue……….
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