Journal 5

Diigo is something that I feel like I would use outside of EME2040. Since I am a history major, we have to do a lot of research and annotate a lot of articles. I personally like to highlight and leave comments so I would be forced to print all of the articles that I wanted to incorporate into my essays. With Diigo, I would not have to print the articles out because it allows you to highlight, leave comments, and even share with groups. The only thing that I do not like about Diigo is that you have to reinstall the extension every time you want to annotate something.

I have always been interested in starting a blog of my own because it is almost like an online diary in a sense. Although I am not using this blog to speak about personal issues I do enjoy it more than just completing discussion posts on Canvas. I like how you can choose your own layout and theme for the blog because it makes it more personalized to me. I also enjoy how you can view others peoples posts and comment on them. Since the blogs are open to the public there is a possibility that you could connect with people all over the world and share ideas with them. The only thing I do not like about about this blogging software specifically is that there are not as many choices of how to set the blog up. My favorite thing I learned from blogging is how to copyright your blog so that people can not steal your words and thoughts. 

One Web 2.0 tool that I would like to incorporate into my classroom is instagram. By the time I would have become a teacher, the students would have grown up with this app and almost if not all of them would have experience using this app. I feel like through using it in the classroom, you could teach the importance of watching what you post online. Through instagram I could interact with my students and they could also interact with me to create discussions. Teachers have routinely been straying away from social media apps for privacy reasons but I feel as though appealing to something that students are already interested in would only improve the classroom. 

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