Digital Citizenship - Week Four

I think that I will try and keep this weeks post a little shorter. I might want to think that it is because I have spent so much time this week already but I was just having so much fun exploring. The real reason is that as I continue to expand my knowledge I have come to understand that if I continue to create lengthy blogs with something important at the end, chances are no one will ever read the entire thing.

The bookmarking tool I choose was Diigo. I have actually found the free app and installed it on my ipad. I choose this one because I think it will be the best for our students going forward as our college becomes more mobile. I did some bookmarking already and it can be found at www.diigo.com/user/jrmurrell. In fact, when I was reviewing my feeder I found another blog that I booked marked on apps, which I will totally explore later. This becomes a great interaction of both tools. I find a couple of things that interest me but do not have the time to properly explore at that moment. I bookmark it with Diigo and revisit it later. Very cool.

For my Curating tool I choose Storify. I know that once I get accustomed to searching the internet properly I will be able to utilize this tool very nicely. I created my first attempt on Saturday night but woke on Sunday morning realizing that I had linked not to the stories but to the websites that carried the stories and of course, the stories would change. I think I have the hang of it now. Check it out at http://storify.com/jrmurrell/will-keselowski-spoil-kyles-title-run.

I found another very interesting piece in my feeder and I totally agree with Vickie Davis. As Post Secondary education moves more towards e-learning, or online, or mobile and more and more students are bringing personal devices to school, we are going to need libraries even more. This is so true as we reduce the space for open computer labs we need to ensure that students still have space and access to computers to allow them to do proper research and to study in a quite space while at the school.

What a cool and fun week. I am starting to connect some of the dots and see the relationship of everything in the new PLE. There is no quick answer here but rather the collaboration of using all the tools together to pull in all the knowledge for many sources into a usable space.

Jeff