Information management is the process of organizing, storing, and administering academic materials and curriculum resources. This includes bookmarking websites, file management and organization, and creating personal school websites. Digital content is academic information that is delivered using Internet technologies. This includes every type of media that is accessed using the Internet.
Diigo is an effective tool for saving and storing anything that is found on the Internet. As someone who prefers saving to files and file organization Diigo is a nice tool to utilize for quickly bookmarking and highlighting websites. The tutorial is short to learn the basics of Diigo but there are add-ons as well that can be used for the more advanced Diigo-er. Drawbacks to Diigo and other website file organizers are having to access the website for saved files and folders and the fact that anyone can access those saved files and folders if they are using your computer or laptop. I prefer to have a minimal amount of websites open at any given time and anything that I save to have an element of privacy. Diigo seems as though it could offer quite a bit, downloading add-ons and possibly upgrading to premium might help, but website organization is not how I prefer to save information, images, and movies found on the Internet. I like my pictures of cats in the cat file and my movies of....movies in the movies file.
Summary and Connection: Chapter 6 of Transforming Learning with New Technologies was a breath of fresh air after reading the drivel that was chapter 5. The chapter offered a great deal of useful information (e.g. how important Internet organization is and will be for a future educator), a wide variety of websites to discover (e.g. proquest.com, readwritethink.com, and student-to-expert communication websites) and explained just how useful social-bookmarking and teacher websites can be for the parents and students. Chapter 6 also had a great line that really explains the joy of teaching, "gaining new knowledge and communicating it to others". "Teaching with Educational Websites and Other Online Resources" was a very informative chapter and something that I was hoping most chapters would be similar to; educational information and how it can be utilized using technology.
Food For Blog:
In 2002 five exabytes of information,which is equivalent to 37,000 libraries the size of the Library of Congress, was added to the Internet
Annually each individual in North America consumes 11,916 sheets of paper.
Seems to me that paper could be superfluous at this point but for some reason is still in use. At what point will we realized paper is better utilized in trees and information is better accessible in digital format. Can someone please inform the text book industry?
Resources: Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010). Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon.
RE: Food for Blog - did you know that many, if not most States, have committed to digital textbooks for K-12 education? Collier Co has digital textbooks in most of the high school classes already. The cost savings may be slim as textbook publishers still charge for the digitized version, but at least there are more living trees.
Also, when you write "I like my pictures of cats in the cat file and my movies of....movies in the movies file."...I'm guessing that you are actually downloading those files? In the hardware world, you are limited to organizing by 'files and folders' labeled descriptively, but in the tagging world on the web, you can organize one item with more than one tag to help in the search. So where would you file the cat movie? Under Cats or under Movies? In tagging, you would tag it as both cat and movie and be able to find it no matter whether you searched cats or movies. You wrote, "Drawbacks to Diigo and other website file organizers are having to access the website for saved files and folders and the fact that anyone can access those saved files and folders if they are using your computer or laptop." Others can only access those saved websites if you provide them with the username and password while they are using your computer if you mark them as 'private'.
RE: Food for Blog - did you know that many, if not most States, have committed to digital textbooks for K-12 education? Collier Co has digital textbooks in most of the high school classes already. The cost savings may be slim as textbook publishers still charge for the digitized version, but at least there are more living trees.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when you write "I like my pictures of cats in the cat file and my movies of....movies in the movies file."...I'm guessing that you are actually downloading those files? In the hardware world, you are limited to organizing by 'files and folders' labeled descriptively, but in the tagging world on the web, you can organize one item with more than one tag to help in the search. So where would you file the cat movie? Under Cats or under Movies? In tagging, you would tag it as both cat and movie and be able to find it no matter whether you searched cats or movies.
You wrote, "Drawbacks to Diigo and other website file organizers are having to access the website for saved files and folders and the fact that anyone can access those saved files and folders if they are using your computer or laptop." Others can only access those saved websites if you provide them with the username and password while they are using your computer if you mark them as 'private'.