Week 4

In week 4 we had to do tutorial at home. I learnt how to use Diggo and Pinterest.

I already had a pinterest account therefore I did not need to set up a new one. I first heard about pinterest when I was in my final year in secondary school. My friends would use it for searching for ideas for projects. However, I do not avail of it's services often.

We had to download the pinterest button onto our browser, then create a board and add a pins of our hobbies. We had one specified image that we had pin which was a photo of Fungie the dolphin. In the tutorial we were showed how to like and re pin photos.

Pinterest is a very valuable service, I like to visualise my future and make vision boards therefore this website will be very useful in order to do so

I learnt that Diigo is a free social bookmarking service. It is an online tool for collecting and organising  web documents. We had to download the diigo button onto our browser. We had to bookmark a website and read the article which was about the negatives to mash-ups. I also explored other features of diigo such as the highlighter, taking notes, screenshots, searching, collaborating and using, bibliography and sharing.

Diigo will be very useful for college especially for the subjects which I am majoring in -sociology and Information and social computing. There is a lot of researching and reading involved with the coursework for  these subjects. My old system of storing information for involved linking the webpage of a particular reading or article on to a Microsoft word document. I now can simply click the diigo browser button in order to store my articles and readings.