Blog Post #5

I am going to be honest and say I was skeptical about Diigo. I didn't think it was very necessary and I didn't really understand the purpose. It was easy to install the extension, but a little more difficult learning the tools. After exploring the features I began to understand the purpose more and more which made the activities we did in class better. I don't really see myself using this in the future as of right now, but it is good to have this in the back of my head should I need a program like this in the future.

As of right now I have mostly good experiences with blogging. Blogging was completely new to me coming into this class, but the explanations in our lectures early on were really helpful. I enjoyed the ability to personalize and organize my page the way I wanted. I haven't run into many issues, except for when I am trying to add images, links, or other aspects like the twitter feature. I understand it better now, but if I was attempting to create the blog on my own I would have struggled to figure it out. Overall the website is easy to navigate, but steps could be taken to make it easier for new users.

One Web 2.0 website I currently use and could use as a teacher is YouTube. I can find videos to help with my learning even as a college student. There are so many videos on YouTube explaining a topic in different ways that has helped me a lot. In my future lessons I hope to use this tool for the same reason. It can be good for students to hear a lesson from a different voice or point of view, especially more difficult or complex topics.