I set up everything on delicious and then worked my way to diigo. I've been trying to work through the differences and found the Experiencing E-Learning blog helpful.
Instructive comment from there:
"You wouldn’t have to migrate to another system if you want to do more over time. I think migrating and learning “one more new tool” is a barrier for a lot of people".
I'm feeling very dispersed!
The potential for connecting aspects of our communications technologies are abundant (i phones, mobile me, etc.).
I'm seeing a large gulf in VLE and social networking (as discussed on Brookes VLE discussion board), but beyond this in terms of different social bookmarking for example.
Be interesting to see how everyone is getting on. For someone who is fairly familiar with this stuff, there is a lot to take in.
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Glad you found my post helpful, even if it is an older post. (You know, although my mom is on Facebook now, she still isn't doing any social bookmarking with either tool.) Looking back at it now, I guess I'd recommend a different tool depending on the person and what they wanted. If it was someone just casually saving links, delicious is enough. I think if you're trying to do any sort of research, the highlighting and sticky notes probably weigh in favor of Diigo. I don't know that I'd want to make a blanket recommendation for one or the other without looking at a specific individual's needs.
ReplyDeleteI understand that feeling of being dispersed across multiple sites, and it is a little overwhelming sometimes. I avoided Twitter until just recently because I just didn't want to add one more thing to my toolbox. I wonder if ultimately there will be a lot of using various different tools, but using things like Friendfeed or Google Wave to bring them together. Aggregation and filtering just become so much more important with all these tools.
Thanks for your reply and I'm going to explore aggregation and filtering tools in more detail.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your comment "I'm feeling very dispersed". I wonder whether the 'digital natives' also start to feel very dispersed when they are given lots of choices about tools to use in their learning?
ReplyDeleteOne of the benefits of the institutional virtual learning environment is that it's all nicely integrated. A one stop shop with a common interface. Pity that the vendors can't make them more student-focused and more Web 2.0.
I agree about a place that brings these things together
ReplyDeleteRichard (and others) have been pointing me to aggregators (netvibes) - these look helpful for bringing content and feeds together. Tool-wise, still lots of opportunity for dispersal!
It's interesting to see Dan's comment 'For someone who is fairly familiar with this stuff, there is a lot to take in.' For someone who is unfamiliar with this stuff, it can be quite overwhelming! I think there is a need for tutors to trial anything which might be of value to their students, but there is always a problem of simply investigating and then adopting a technology for the sake of it, to appear competitive or because the institution/ potential learners expect it. I am looking at delicious as a referencing tool, as learners struggle to pull together refs and a bibliography when completing assignments. Beacuse they are already familiar with delicious, it is not an onerous task to simply log a ref and it then builds up ready for final tweaking to ensure it meets Harvard referencing standards. This is one use, and it would be good to hear of other ways in which Delicious and Diigo are being used in education. Angela
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