Saturday, July 25, 2009

Bookmarking is awesome!!!

Hi, my name is David Cantu and I am currently enrolled in the University of Texas at Brownsville where I am about to complete a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership. I created this blog to help current and future college/university students, educators at all levels, and online bookworms that spend hours searching for credible sources such as journal articles via the web. I am also pursuing a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and using online sources can become very tedious work.
Therefore this blog was created for those of us that use the Internet as a tool to hunt down that resource that will help us write a paper or that resource that will help us present a topic. Bookmarking is something totally new to me. If it wasn't for this technology course I am enrolled in I would not have ever stumbled upon bookmarking. Bookmarking is an online service that allows people to highlight, bookmark, and share an online source.
The website I use is Diigo and it has really opened my eyes to new possibilities because I am the type that reads and reads and reads and often times forgets where I read it. But not anymore, I can easily access my account from anywhere. I can also go back, find the source I read with a highlighted section of what I found to be interesting or important. Try it and tell me what you think.