Blog Post 7

Twitter has taught me that there are a lot of easy to access resources at my fingertips. It's easy to tag people with the intent of getting quick and easy answers (hello, my SOS at the teacher during my Weebly process. False alarm, by the way). It's also easy to organize your own Tweets, or quickly access information relevant to your interests thank to the Twitter specialty, hashtags. My only issue is my lack of inspiration to Tweet stuff, and the fact that I never used it before this class, so it really isn't a prevalent part of my day to day social media routine. I don't remember to use it, so all of my Tweets feel a little forced to me. 

Hoooo weeee, Weebly. I fought with this assignment so much. The website would largely just go unresponsive. The design aspects are not very intuitive, and I found that moving things around was way harder than it should have been. This was interesting to me, however, because the technical stuff was pretty easy for me. Beyond the initial scare that my website wouldn't publish without me paying $68 (I had already published the free site without realizing, so it was routing me to the more advanced publication options, the ones that people can actually create income off of), publishing and updating was a breeze, as was naming it and locating my website. I feel like most web design experience I have is where it's very easy to make the site aesthetic, but very difficult to do the house-keeping aspects. So it was an interesting change of pace. 
My website

I think Diigo made me more skilled at quickly analyzing a website for quality and relevance, scanning for the most important topics, and then compartmentalizing what I want to remember from it into tags. It made me feel very organized and productive. I actually really like this and can definitely imagine myself at least using this to clean up my currently overgrown bookmarks page. As far as teaching with Diigo, I think it would be very useful in organizing documents that are useful to you over the years versus time-sensitive lessons (current events, etc) and especially for teachers with multiple classes/subjects, to keep things tidy in that regard. 

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