Blog 5- diigo & web 2.0
My experience with diigo was that I overall found it a useful tool. One really good way to learn is through sharing ideas and findings. With diigo, it allows for you to see what websites your peers are posting about and what they think about it. Another thing I really liked about it was how easy it was to share a webpage once you include the extension on your browser page. It can overall really narrow down some of the best tools as suggested by other teachers and the way the website organizes the information makes diigo an easy website to use. I think the only thing I was not completely partial to was the way it can let the same website be posted multiple times. In this was, it can get repetitive.
Overall, I like blogging but I think a blogging website is overall better used for different subjects. I personally look at blogging as more of a creative expression rather than an outlet to comment or review certain things. I think blogging can be a useful educational tool, but I think it is most compatible with a subject in which you are sharing different ideas. However, this was useful because in the blogging process I have seen how useful and engaging it can be for an english class in which students may share their thoughts or creative ideas about a book in their process of reading it. Another possible specific assignment it could be used for would be creative writing in which a student's new blog post could be like the equivalent of a chapter. Overall, I do like the blogger website and can see myself using it in future lesson plans.
One Web 2.0 tool I have used in the past and can definitely see myself using as a teacher is wordle. Basically, wordle takes the most important words in a text and arranges them in a fun/appealing way with the most important words being in bold/bigger. This can be interesting to use in an english class because it is almost like a short fun summary. It could be used to summarize books in a fun interactive way.
http://www.wordle.net/
Overall, I like blogging but I think a blogging website is overall better used for different subjects. I personally look at blogging as more of a creative expression rather than an outlet to comment or review certain things. I think blogging can be a useful educational tool, but I think it is most compatible with a subject in which you are sharing different ideas. However, this was useful because in the blogging process I have seen how useful and engaging it can be for an english class in which students may share their thoughts or creative ideas about a book in their process of reading it. Another possible specific assignment it could be used for would be creative writing in which a student's new blog post could be like the equivalent of a chapter. Overall, I do like the blogger website and can see myself using it in future lesson plans.
One Web 2.0 tool I have used in the past and can definitely see myself using as a teacher is wordle. Basically, wordle takes the most important words in a text and arranges them in a fun/appealing way with the most important words being in bold/bigger. This can be interesting to use in an english class because it is almost like a short fun summary. It could be used to summarize books in a fun interactive way.
http://www.wordle.net/
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