Josh's Blog

New Skills from Diigo When using Diigo, I have mostly benefited from the Chrome extension! It makes marking up, highlighting, and annotating any article on the web easier than ever. Before, I would have to save the article as a PDF and then print it to be able to physically mark it up. But with the power of technology and Diigo, it has made it so much easier for me to do so. I don't know how I feel about the sharing and posting aspect of Diigo, sometimes it is a little difficult to find specific articles. When there are so many people in a group on Diigo, you have to scroll around until you discover what you were looking for. It's not my favorite aspect of the application. Powerpoint Learning For the understand and remember  sections of Bloom's Taxonomy, I would simply use a Powerpoint slideshow with text and images to recall basic facts and explain concepts to my students. Because those two are at the bottom of the pyramid, they are simple to implement into my every...

Twitter Using Twitter in an educational and professional setting has definitely been a different experience. I've used Twitter for a class before, but we only had to tweet about our weekly readings instead of interacting with others and finding more resources. For this class, I have learned more about how hard it can be to create your PLN, especially in a specific field like education. For some, it may easier to find different hashtags and accounts that are relevant to you, but it has been a little more difficult for me. I haven't experience any issues, it's just hard to come up with content, especially when we are forced to have a certain number of tweets.  Web Design I have not necessarily acquired any new skills from the Web Design assignment, I already knew how to build a website from a template, like Weebly. I don't like that there is not much creative freedom and that you must choose from a template to help guide you. While that is helpful for the beginnin...

For this blog post, I created a VoiceThread about my experience with a Lynda.com Tutorial. Check it out:  https://voicethread.com/share/12220487/