Week Report & Reflection Post #4

Welcome back!

This week for ADED 1P32 we explored curating tools. This entails bookmarking. Bookmarking essentially is a way to access frequently used websites faster than typing in the URL. I have done this in the past on my web browser (like Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox), but I have never used a specific site for bookmarking purposes.

Diigo

Diigo was the bookmarking tool we were introduced to this week. What makes Diigo different than regular bookmarking on a web browser, is you can access these bookmarked pages from any device by logging in to your Diigo account. I found this to be the biggest benefit of this tool  I will definitely be including Diigo in my PLE as a social, education, and career tool as it is very versatile.

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so you can access your bookmarked websites on the go. Another interesting feature of Diigo was your ability to highlight and add comments to the articles you read on the website. This would be very handy for doing assignments that require online sources. You are also able to add “tags” to your bookmarked pages (based on what they are about), which categorizes your bookmarks for you.

Valid and Reliable Information

In order to use your Diigo effectively for educational purposed it is important that you use a valid source. I know we have all heard our teachers and professors throughout the years talking about this. A valid and reliable source does not necessarily mean that it is peer reviewed and scholarly, but it means that the information is accurate and is credible.

An example of a source that is very unreliable and is not appropriate for educational purposed is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia of almost anything and everything you could ever think of, but the problem with Wikipedia is that it allows anyone to edit or modify the information on the website, making it invalid. But if you can’t resist the pull and ease of using Wikipedia a trick that I have learned through my years of struggling to find a reliable source, is checking the references used on the bottom of the Wikipedia page, which for the most part are credible. From there you can bookmark these credible and valid articles and pages, and create a file for each different topic of research.

Curation Tool

This week we were introduced to five different curation tools. The one I found to be most interesting was Paper.li. This is a very interesting tool where you choose any topic you have interest in, and it creates a “digital newspaper” with many articles pertaining to that topic, as new articles come in, you newspaper gets updated, you can create multiple newspapers on different topics. This is an interesting and very green way to go about your learning. To learn more about Paper.li watch a tutorial I found called How to create a Paper.li.

Feedly Article of the Week

Although this article is older, it showed up in my Feedly as it was featured by one of my subscriptions. This article is 5 Things you REALLY Must Do Ahead of a Job Interview. Although it

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is not even February, yet students have already started looking for summer jobs and I don’t want to get behind! I have started applying for jobs and will soon begin the interview process. Interviews can be very VERY nerve-racking, so when I saw this article I knew I had to look at it because I can use all the help I can get. Although it is a short and simple article, I found the tips to be very helpful to have a better chance at a successful outcome from the interview.

Until next week!