Cool Tools

I would like to start this post off by saying that throughout this course I have learned so much about a site that I use all of the time, this site being Google.  Before this course, I only used Google to search for information or pictures.  I had no idea how useful all of its other features were.  Google Docs has been so helpful for completing group projects for school, it is something that I will continue using a lot.  Google + was something that I never paid much attention to and didn't really think that it could possibly be anything that I would find useful.  Lets just say I could not be more wrong.  There are so many neat things that you can do with this once you have created all of your circles.  I am a history major so completing my Arts Degree required me to write a lot of research papers.  It was stressed to us on an almost daily bases that using google for a search was a terrible thing to do.  After three years of this I came to develop almost a fear of using google and I was weary of even creating a gmail account.  I can definitely say now that there are great things that you can do from this one platform.

I absolutely love my bookmarking feature.  I decided to use Diigo and liked it right away.  I liked how simple it was to use and how things were organized.  After being shown Pearltrees in class however, I think I may want to give it a try.  I really liked how everything was displayed very visually pleasing.  With regards to the debate about Pinterest being a legitimate bookmarking site I feel that like anything else it has a time and a place.  There are certain aspects of it that make it very appealing (and as a new member veeerrrryyy addicting!!). 

This class without a guest speaker was very valuable to me because it gave me a chance to see how some of these tools work before I just jump right in.  I like to see what I am getting myself into before jump right in and try it out.

~ Carissa