Organizing material in the age of information is a learning process that requires some management tools. Wurman reports that “a weekly edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England” (as cited in Berger & Trexler, 2010, p. 70). Berger and Trexler discuss the problem of information overload, stating that it occurs when a person is unable to locate and make use of the information that one needs (p. 71). Here is where a social bookmarking tool like Diigo, or an archiving tool like Evernote become very useful. They both are tools that I have started to use at home and at school and this blog post on the Unquiet Librarian (Hamilton, 2010) confirms they are both being used regularly by students.
I plan to start my two week focus on Evernote and Diigo with a compare and contrast of the two tools for both personal and school-based use. In the second week, I will focus more closely on Evernote, as it is the tool I have used less, by using the various options within Evernote to do an inspirational project, such as developing a notebook of future travel dreams. I have purposely chosen a fun project here to see how students could use the program to be creative.
References
Berger, P., & Trexler, S. (2010). Choosing web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching in a digital world. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.
Hamilton, B. (2010, August 6). Students give Evernote and Diigo the thumbs up [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/students-give-evernote-and-diigo-the-thumbs-up/
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