Reflection #2

"Would you like to use any of the resources we talked about in class (or perhaps others you found on your own) to help further your learn? Which ones? How might these resources be useful to you as a student and as a teacher?"

I thought it was really neat how you can highlight web pages by using Diigo. In the past I have had to do a lot of research projects using the Internet. It gets complicated by having many different tabs and getting the bookmarks mixed up in my other bookmarks. This would also be really neat if you had to do a project with someone else. Both of you can highlight and then compare what you have highlighted. I can definitely see myself using this in the remainder of my college career. I might even have my students do a project on physical fitness and require them to do research. My brother is a PE teacher at Mountain View high school. He had his students do a report where they learned about nutrition and recorded what they ate. This website would be a help in the research aspect of the project where the students are actually looking online for information.

Zotero might actually be an even better website for my students to use because it cites the articles for you. You can organize the articles and bookmark them just like in Diigo, but this site does the referencing for you. With my past experience referencing in reports, I have found it to be quite a hassle. Also, it is time spent on something that should be spent researching more material. So any program that can save me or my students that time would be beneficial.