Chapter 6 - social networking.

I'm thankful Richardson didn't have the gall to try and work in sites like Facebook and MySpace into this chapter. Those sites, to me, are strictly social, and do nothing to educate us but increase our appetite and tolerance for voyeurism. 

I've been spending the better part of the day learning to use this site diigo. It's pretty fascinating. I love how you can annotate and highlight passages of an article you're reading. In fact, I was thinking just the other day how wonderful it would be if there were a way to comment on any page you want with your thoughts. Often I read long articles on a website and afterward can't find a quote I want to use, or even the website again. Diigo seems to greatly help in this arena. It's a little confusing to look at. A little too bland, and jumbled feeling. Perhaps that will improve as it moves out of BETA.

I think a site like this could be extremely useful in a school context. We could probably use it to share our thoughts on a particular piece on a website, and students could then draw from their initial annotated thoughts to expand in a writing journal. Or students could be assigned an article to read for homework, with annotated questions to respond to in writing as they read at their leisure at home. 

I feel like there are a lot of possibilities I'm not picking up on. But as of yet I'm still only learning the site, and I'm sure more ideas will come the better I understand it.