EME2040 Blog Journal 6: My Beef with Diigo

 Lets start off by saying that I actually like Diigo. I think that it could be valuable to me as a tool to highlight and leave comments on documents that I am accessing digitally. This is great, because normaly I have a word document with all of my notes on my topic; even with listing the page number it can often be hard to immediately find the information I need. The issue with this is not having all my information in one place, and possibly losing things but Diigo may actually fix that as well. I do need to learn how to use it anymore. Will I use Diigo in collaborative settings though? No, I will not. I rarely ever work on a project with multiple people, and I don't particularly like it. A bulk of my work is papers; I like to be recluse while I am working on those. 

Seems like no big deal, why do I have beef with Diigo? Because for a Portfolio Item we have to include notes and highlights on the Diigo page. I like to use academic articles over websites, which are normally accessed using PDFs. DIIGO DOESN'T COPY YOUR SHIT TO THE GROUP PAGE FROM A PDF! I had to restart! I wasted so much time! The application works for highlighting and commenting on PDFs, but not for sharing those highlights and comments with a group? Why not? The whole thing was iffy on a PDF. I'm stil salty about it.

I actually really enjoy blogging. This is a nice way to casually get my thoughts out. As always, I write way too much but on here I can just kind of ignore that. I have not used my personal and unprofessional voice in my writing in a very long time, so blogging has been a good change of pace for me! I also realllyy like attention, and feel like I get it this way.

Web 2.0 is pretty great. Its a big part of the reason that I enjoy my College work more than I ever did my K-12 work. Web 2.0 is already heavily integrated here at FSU, and it creates a more rich learning experience. As for interesting Web 2.0 tools that can be used in the classroom? Google Docs was used by my highschool teachers to great effect, and I am going to use that as my example here. Google Docs allows students to work on one page at the same time, which makes collaborative projects a lot easier. Its an incredible tool, and I was happy to see it on the list of 101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools that I googled to complete this blog post!

https://docs.google.com

Comments

  1. Ashleigh BryantOctober 5, 2021 at 7:22 AM

    I also really like blogging. I feel like it is a very authentic form of writing that we don't get to use very often. It is a great way to express yourself and talk about whatever you want without judgement from others.

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  2. Danyel' SmithOctober 5, 2021 at 9:46 AM

    Hey! Honestly I don't like using Diigo that much either. It took me forever how to figure out how to annotate an article for no reason. I just think there are other tools that would be easier to use.

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