Sometimes I am just overwhelmed by the number of tools that can be used in an online learning environment. The websites explaining these tools are one top of all the content I come across when working background for my research. How to keep track of it all.
For the last few months I have been using Diigo to help me keep track of it all. You can become a user for free and it helps you annotate, archive and organize all the websites that are of use to you. In that way it kind of serves as a fancy bookmarking tool (if you were really good about sub-categorizing bookmarks - my bookmarks tab had 50 entries in random order - not very useful). But Diigo asks you for tags to the website (some are already suggested by the article itself) and later you can quickly search interesting sites by tag.
During my Tech Tools course I learned to also become a member of a Diigo group. In this group setting all the bookmarks from members in a group come together. This could be very helpful for class activity. Sometimes, as an instructor or a student, you read something that you want to share with your class - putting it in this group will enable others to see what you were so excited about (you can even include comments) without bothering them with yet another e-mail or twitter. After the course is over the bookmarks can still be a great resource to refer back to.
It takes a little while to remember to use the Diigo tool, however, it is very easy to use and the toolbar I installed makes things even easier.
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