Twitter. I was required to establish a Twitter account years
ago and follow Tweets leading up to a conference. Today I logged in and found a
lengthy list of Tweets accumulated since. Do people really read this stuff? I’m
bothered that I apparently have 13 followers, and several of them aren’t
identifiable. Does this mean their inboxes will be filled with my ION tweets? I
tweeted my professor. I see he has tweeted a daily link. I think I need to
change my Twitter options so that Tweets come through to my phone, or something
like that.
Diigo. I am to install Diigo on my browser. Instructions are
given, but they do not seem to be working. I google “browser bar” to make
sure I understand what they are talking about. I google several other items on
Diigo, watch a youtube video, and eventually figure out that most of these are
talking about Firefox, but I am using Internet Explorer, or Chrome. This is a
key, and I am quickly able to install Diigo on both. The instruction was to
right click in an empty space near my browser bar, and this produced toolbar
options I was unaware of. I installed Diigo in Favourites on Internet Explorer
and in Bookmarks on Chrome. These are details that weren’t apparent in my first
pass of the information. If I wasn’t in the ION course, I might have given up.
However, lately I am pursuing these things more doggedly, and gradually
building some comfort level these things. My computer use to date has been very
basic.
I often find information written by other users more helpful
than what is written in official user instructions. In skimming for help, I
came to understand a major benefit of Diigo for organizing information. By
tagging information with descriptors, you can search for items that might not
be related in a mere alphabetical search of favourites. True confession: Over
the past year I read many articles online, some academic, some popular press,
in preparation for a talk at a conference. I kept a disorderly list of my
sources in a word document. Diigo would have made my life easier, and prettier J I am resolved to use
it. 