DIIGO

Social bookmarking is a great tool to employ to share and create knowledge using the power of the internet.  We were asked to watch a short informative film  and read this brief article . 

The film recommended and described 3 steps.

Step 1: Tag & List.  You can highlight &annotate Pages on the web with ease.  You can highlight content on a page, add a comment, and bookmark the page for later.  You can view your bookmarks in a list also in the sidebar.

Step 2: Connect & Engage – bookmarks, tags, & annotations.  I can see my bookmarks, as well as what my friends are bookmarking and tagging.   You can join various groups.  Groups can collaborate their bookmarks or you can message or share bookmarks with friends not in groups.

Step 3: Get Personalized Content Recommendations – you can see recommended bookmarks and see bookmarks by people like you.

Web 2.0 associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community.  By increasing what was already possible in "Web 1.0", they provide the user with more user-interface, software and storage facilities, all through their browser.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.  Social bookmarking is advantageous compared to traditional storage and retrieval websites because social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. A social bookmarking system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software, which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning of a resource. Also, people can find and bookmark web pages that have not yet been noticed or indexed by web spiders.  Additionally, a social bookmarking system can rank a resource based on how many times it has been bookmarked by users, which may be a more useful metric for end-users than systems that rank resources based on the number of external links pointing to it.

So, I registered for DIIGO .  I wasn’t sure how to do it as an educator, but I have an account.  I updated and messed around with my profile, to make myself more recognizable.  I found a place where I could put education as my industry.

 My DIIGO Library

Then, I installed the Diigolet for my web browser.   I added it at work on my laptop first, then added it to my home laptop once I got home.  At work I have Google Chrome so it was easy, just had to make the bookmarks bar visible and drag the little Diigolet button up there.  No installation or downloading or anything.  Turns out that Firefox, which I use on my personal laptop at home, works the same way was Google Chrome. 

This image shows my set-up instructions as well as that my Diigolet button is installed on my bookmarks toolbar.  Also, just to see what it does, I highlighted and sticky noted my instructions and privately bookmarked it to myself. Neat.

Next up was to build my library, so I started looking for news or scholarly links that could be used in math teaching or in educational technology research.  I added one private bookmark and one public bookmark.  I’ll keep a lookout for new links as the semester continues.  I looked at the professors Diigo for some examples and direction in how to acquire, archive, tag, and share resources.  My Diigo URL is http://www.diigo.com/user/kbland.  I added this URL to my Link List to the left of my blog also.

I also joined a group: Diigo In Education

This image shows my browser, Firefox, with my Diigolett button on my bookmarks toolbar as well as an Add-on of the Diigo Toolbar!  I also highlighted, in my library, what a bookmarked item looks like, as well as a post-it.

ISTE Nets T Standard 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership:  participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning. 

Self Portrait

In this assignment we were asked to create a self portrait in the style of Pablo Picasso.  I went to the Picassohead website and began to create.  I usually find myself to be fairly creative, but I felt like my creativity was being lessened due to the fact that there weren’t very many options.  In spite of the lack of piece and color options, I pressed on.  I looked up Picasso style, as I do not remember exactly what Picasso was all about and what his pieces looked like. 

Picasso Style:  In this style, the outlines are profiles, but the features are seen frontally too, which is impossible in real circumstances. This dual angle of vision had been familiar in Picasso's art since the 1920s. It occurred in figure portrayals that combined the dissociative and the figurative principles.

This is how my self portrait turned out - Ms. Bland by Ms. B: Picassohead

I found that the more I messed around with it, the more creative I got.  I actually made a previous Picasso head prior to this one that I didn’t like once I completed it.  Then I created this one and forgot to hit save and had to remake it again, adding some more details.   I ended up keeping with the Picasso style and using a profile as well as frontal facing features.  As you can tell from my self portrait, I like the color pink and want to be a math teacher.  Also I have brown hair and sometimes my eyes look blue and sometimes they look green.  

ISTE Nets T Standards 1A, 1C, & 3A.  This assignment promoted creativity while allowing for self reflection.  It also provided the opportunity for us to demonstrate our ability to apply past knowledge with a new concept or digital tool.

Revisit Resume

For a previous assignment, I created my resume in Google Docs. 

For this assignment we are asked to find a free service or use RezScore to evaluate our resumes.

Here is my score (snipped with Snipping Tool!) :

I’ve never scored a resume before, it’s a good idea.  It is like someone proofreading it before you use it.   I scored “good” on my resume.  Some suggestions that the website had for me was to make it longer, remove objective & replace with a professional header, and to capitalize PowerPoint correctly.  I plan on at least correcting the second two things.  When it comes to making it longer, I think I will just have to wait on more experiences and things to come into my life so that I can add them to my resume.  

I went back in after completing this assignment to Google Docs and corrected the issues.  I removed the objective and placed a heading, fixed PowerPoint capitalization, and added a couple more employment highlights.  I have yet to re-score my resume, but plan to before I turn it in to someone as I feel this is a beneficial service.

 ISTE Nets T -  standard 3 section.  I used past knowledge and applied it to a new technology in order to modify my resume.