Week 6 Weekly Report and Reflection

This week we were assigned to, amongst other things, create an Evernote notebook for our research project. My topic for that project is digital security. One of the things that I liked about Evernote, is that it really helps organize your research. Over the years of doing essays and projects it was always hard to keep track of which sites I used for what quotes, or whatever it may be, and Evernote is a tool that will help fix that problem. Evernote allows you to create a notebook for any topic that you will be researching and put all the videos, websites, book clippings, quotes, etc. that you find in to one easy to maneuver place. The best part however is that you can tag each of the notes with the important themes of it, which would allow one to search their notebooks for it in the future, if you find a need for that site again. This will allow you to keep the best, and most useful sources that you find for years into the future on an easy to navigate database.

Another useful part of Evernote is the web clipping tool that we had to use. This tool allows you to highlight certain sentences, paragraphs, or even entire articles that you deem necessary to keep in your Evernote notebook. It is just an easier way, when surfing the web, to easily organize any useful information you find. You can do most of the same things through this tool that you can on the site, such as tagging your articles, and putting them in the appropriate notebooks.

If I were to put this in my PLE I would put in in the applications section rather than the gathering of information section. I believe this because it is an application that I would use to SORT information that I have found as opposed to GATHERING information.

An item of interest from my Feedly this week comes from the Brock News. It is an article about students on exchange entitled Student Exchange Creates 'Experience of a Lifetime'. This interests me because I would have an interest in doing the exchange program, and seeing how other people are doing it, and enjoying it so much, only makes me want to do it more. It is also interesting to Brock students talk about the differences in schooling here, and wherever there exchange takes them.