With the thought of assignment #4 looming overhead, I see that I was not the only one to have neglected my original blog posts for a while. It's much easier to reply to other people's posts that create your own! LOL
But while I was working away at my paper, I have to share with you that using my social bookmarking site (diigo.com) that I researched for the previous assignment, became a valuable tool, as well as for the group project. It helped me collect all my online bookmarks as well as organizing them and putting them in order. Any order. I rearranged them several times based on which ones I needed to read first, which ones I needed to include in the bibliography and so on. I was even able to use Diigo's highlighting tool to highlight parts of the text I wanted to focus on out of the whole webpage. So I am definitely going to be using that on a regular basis! It saved me a lot of time and alot of paper and ink costs.
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I am SO excited you are taking so much away from this class!!!
Diigo is a great tool. I've read a couple of articles in which Diigo was used as a collaborative tool for group projects in the classroom.
Students can see what their peers are researching and annotating, and according to the articles, this results in much class discussion.
Let me second that thought.
Integrating the bookmarking tool into your research process seems to have paid off for you.
I'm glad someone has had some luck. My home network crashed - taking with it my research and paper and everything else. Now I'm wishing I had used the social bookmarking websites more often!
That's a great idea Carol. I should have learned to use the bookmarking sites, but again, I used a Word document to cut and paste. I do that because I usually type the reference, APA style first, (then I am done with that part), then type in all the information from that article I am going to use, including quotes, etc. Then, I can print that out and have everything right there, in paper. I guess I'm just old-fashioned that way. However, when I was researching, I could have used that to keep track of important articles.
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