Zotero October 5, 2007

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

Ah! Now I Get It :) October 3, 2007

Well that was interesting. I must say, reading the three required articles for class was somewhat confusing because all of the computer language was not making sense to me (then again I am not too computer literate haha). However, the Social Networking and Social Bookmarking videos were a lot clearer in what I was supposed to do in order to register for a social networking or a social bookmarking site. Clearly, I am more of a visual learner, and I prefer being shown exactly what I am to do so I am not fussing through pages trying to find directions. I found these very informative, and after watching my confusion of the assignment disappeared. I decided to register for del.icio.us because, lets be honest, the name is much cooler than diigo and the video was easier for me to understand. After watching, I was successful in creating tags and categories for all of my blogs up until this point. I am still unsure of how to do some things on here, but I am learning and I am sure I will find the answers I am looking for eventually. Things I am currently wondering…

…can someone please tell me how to post a link?

-and-

…how do you add a picture?

Perhaps we were already told how to do this, but if so, it has already slipped my mind. If anyone has a minute to give me some explanation it would be greatly appreciated J Then, hopefully I can make my blogs better by adding links to the articles I talk about.

                                                                                            -Amanda