Class Wednesday was really informative for me. It reminded me of a discussion we had in class in the beginning of this module where Dr. Wolff was asking us what we did with our information so we could always refer to it later. How would you be able to access a page you referenced possibly years after you used it for a paper? Back then, no one really had an answer. Wednesday, however, we took a look at Zotero, which is a site that allows us to save documents we find online through databases or other forms of research, bookmark them, and even tag them with key words that will allow us to find the specific information later. After doing that, the site would forever remain on your computer and at the click of the mouse, you could find that article whenever you wanted without having to go through all the hassle of trying to remember where you got it from. This, to me, is amazing because I, for one, do not like doing research. Even more so, I do not like having to take extensive notes while doing research. With this tool, and other ones like it, the time it takes to find information later on is greatly reduced, making our projects less stressful and annoying. I’m sure, beyond this class, I will put this tool to good use J
I am very technology illiterate, so learning about all these new things is pretty exciting for me. Yeaa… I’m a complete dork. hahaha
-Amanda
