Kadi's Educational Tehcnology Journey

     The week before spring break was the last time we used Diigo's software in my educational technology course. While it is sad to say goodbye, I know that I can always go back and use it as a resource and I learned so many great things through our in-class activities involving the software. One of the best moments we had while using Diigo this semester was when we were trying to create a discussion thread. Initially, it seemed quite unorganized and not set up in a way to easily interact with on another's comments, however, one of my classmates found that you could use Diigo's highlighting feature on the thread itself so we could easily respond to each other's individual comments! It was a learning moment for the entire class which was pretty great. I think in the future I would encourage my students to use Diigo when writing research papers or any papers that require sources that are accessible online. Through Diigo, they can share their resources with peers writing ...

     It’s been a few months since I opened my Twitter account for my Introduction to Educational Technology class and quite a lot has changed in terms of my view of Twitter. When I first started using Twitter back in middle school, I didn’t really use it at all. I saw it as similar to Facebook at the time and didn’t really know how to find other accounts to follow. When I revisited it in high school, I used it for memes and other funny content on the internet. Towards the end of that period of me using Twitter, I used to to socialize and have conversations with my friends. Now that I have been using it from an educator’s point of view, I see everything in a new light. I have been able to hear about some really amazing things happening around my own school and in the world of education in general and I’ve been able to see what my classmates think about what we are doing in class. There is so much information and so many Twitter accounts that post new information as it come...