Blog Journal #5

We first started using Diigo in class and honestly, I had a hard time. The site wasn't very easy to navigate and wasn't visually pleasing to me. After installing it onto chrome and using it to annotate a website, it wasn't too bad. But, when we had to comment on other posts, it was very confusing and I could barely find the button to comment due to the words being so small and hard to find. After more attempts, I am sure it will come easier, but, it shouldn't be this annoying to deal with in the first place.

Blogging has been way nicer than I previously thought. Coming into it I figured it would just be a useless resource, but I actually enjoy it. It's a fun, new way to do assignments and we are able to design ours how we want, to give it some personalization. Another thing is how easy it is to navigate through the blogger website. I don't mind doing these every week and I would recommend it for other courses or just for fun in general.

A Web 2.0 tool I might use when teaching is YouTube. Every minute someone is uploading a video on things like tutorials, their thoughts, or even academic lessons. Academic lessons is what I would use from YouTube to teach. I've had teachers in the past use this site to give us more info on a subject or explain something more in depth with pictures. YouTube is perfect for students as well when they are doing homework and for instance, say you forgot how to do a math problem, all you have to do is search in YouTube your specific question/problem and the site will generate all the videos that contain that topic for you to choose from. I personally use it all the time, especially if I am struggling.
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