Blog Journal 5

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-      This is my first time using Diigo and I like it so far! I really love the communication aspect of the tool and how easy it is to share tools with members in your group that help your colleagues. When I first saw Diigo I honestly didn’t think it looked reliable, the look isn’t super appealing and looks kind of outdated. But using it within other browsers and being able to annotate and highlight other websites and easily share your notes with other members in your group is vital to locating reliable sites to find lesson plans and much more. 
-      I have really liked blogging so far! Since it is my own blog, I can write how I want while expressing my opinions on different subjects (in an appropriate manner of course). Not only does it act as an outlet for teachers, but also a way for teachers to communicate within their personal learning network. Blogs acts as a good review of different websites to utilize in the classroom, different lesson plans, and even classroom management styles that have been found to be successful and that may help other teachers. The only thing I don’t like about blogging is that it doesn’t encourage me enough to look at other students post. For example, if there was one home page where everyone’s blogs popped up from our group, I would be more inclined to reading other students’ thoughts. 

-      Web 2.0 tools offer teachers the option of commenting and contributing to the online presence of teachers. An interesting web 2.0 tool I would use as a teacher is YouTube. There are countless educational videos posted on YouTube that are extremely helpful to students studying for all sorts of tests and exams. My teachers in the past have both assigned videos to watch and to create YouTube videos ourselves reviewing course content we have learned. As a teacher, one can create their own videos reviewing content for their kids and this may help a lot of students when studying. Link: https://www.youtube.com

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