Weekly Report and Reflection #6

Greetings everyone,

I am please to know that my blogs are viewed and read by my fellow classmates and others, the increase in blog views each week motivates me to put out quality information we all can relate to. This weeks assignment introduced a new tool to improve my educational activities, EVERNOTE is essentially an online notebook that allows one to  add, organize, and store information such as websites, pictures, and videos. With Evernote you can organize information in multiple notes giving the user the opportunity to have different notebooks with different sources of information. Evernote is also useful because the user can create a to do list, this is beneficial at an academic standpoint because it keeps the user informed and up to date with current due dates, assignment and more.

Having information on a given topic and having a valid and reliable bookmark for example my topic on digital literacy allows me to store important information that I will need to accomplish my task and use it at a later date. Evernote can be an essential tool to my personal learning experience by adding a resourceful device that categorizes information into its own section. Explore a given topic and find plenty of resources and add it to an individual note. This can help in many other classes I am currently in and I can use it as a database to keep notes and important information.

Having more resourceful tools increases my digital literacy by improving my functional skills, so I have thoroughly developed aptitudes online. Secondly it challenges me to think critically and analyze digital content and information. Lastly it helps with my ability to find and select information and I can evaluate whether the information is quality or not. An article on my Feedly provided me with three useful tips, first tip is to capture each note in steps this means if an idea was to pop in your head and you want to remember it create a new note and add it to your Evernote. Tip two is organize work in notebook this is done by placing all relevant work into one notebook, the benefits is that all your work is in one place and you are not in a disarray to find your information. Last tip is connect with work chat this is an online tool that allows you to share your information with a team of people and provides a setting of collaboration.

Signing Out
Jesse