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    While I was at school, a lot of teachers had websites that could be accessed from the school website. Most of the time they were Weebly websites and other times they were just webpages on the school website itself, but regardless of where they were made, not many teachers used them. Some of them would bring it up on the first day of school or put the link on the syllabus, and never actually use the website. Others would put important files in there and keep it semi-updated, only really bringing it up for students that may have missed school for a long time. For my high school, all of the teacher websites were webpages of the main school website and could be accessed by clicking the "Department" tabs on the navigation bar. This was pretty helpful because everything was found in one place. It also looked good because everything followed the theme of the school website with the school colors and the layout stayed consistent for all teacher webpages. With the exception of som...

  "Some solutions for solving the digital divide with schools, parents & community"   by  rebe_zuniga  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0

      I procrastinated a lot with the Diigo activities because I found the website hard to understand at first. It was more so the concept of a social bookmarking tool that I did not understand since I have never used one. Honestly, though, now that I learned how to use it, I can see why people like it. When I first made my account I was taken to my group's feed, and the interface of that page looked weird to me, like an outdated Facebook theme, so I was kind of put off. However, the rest of the website has a fun and simple interface and was very easy to use. The annotating feature was the coolest thing for me, it really showcased why people like these so much. There was so much to do! Also, there is a cool extension that you can download onto Chrome which syncs up to the articles in different websites so you can annotate from there, so I am looking forward to learning more about that. In all, I can see how Diigo has its place in the Web 2.0 experience. It is a place...

When I think about all of the social media sites I have used in the past few years, Twitter has definitely been one that I have enjoyed the most. I created my first Twitter account in the summer of 2013 one night while I was bored at my grandma's house. I had been on Instagram for some time, but I wanted a social media where there wasn't much of a pressure to post or where you weren't limited to only posting photos and videos. Also, a lot of the memes that would go viral on Instagram were screenshots of viral Tweets, so I really wanted to give the site a shot. When I made my account, I was not wanting to post about my personal life, so I made one that stayed pretty anonymous. Honestly, Twitter was hard to get used to at first, it was very different than Instagram. To the point where after making my account and not being able how to figure out how to use Twitter, I logged out and did not reopen the app for another three months. But it ended up being one of those things that ...

    With the world of information available on the internet, being able to navigate through it accurately and find what you need requires some caution. This is true regardless of the subject of your research, so thankfully there are some tools and methods available to improve the quality of your searching skills, which I was never aware of. Turns out the boolean search feature in the campus library search is a more universal thing than one would expect. For instance, Google offers advanced searching, which allows one to exclude terms and subjects in order to get a more specific search result. Also, and I thought this was the coolest feature, there are special symbols you can type to let the Google search bar know what specific things you are looking for. You can type hashtags to get search results for hashtags; put an "@" symbol to yield social media results; and perhaps the most helpful of all, putting a "-" symbol before a word that you want to be excluded from th...