This week, EverNote shined above any other mentioned tool in its amazing ability to collect and organize data. It can be used to record and store the articles I find. More importantly, the chrome add-on web clipper allows me to screenshot with simple ability to edit the screenshots as I am taking the screenshots, and before saving the screenshot. See picture below.
Fan, L. (CC) 2015.
Despite the usefulness, I was hesitant when I find that this web clipper tool is for Google Chrome only:
While linking Twitter with EverNote help with collecting social media materials, the EverNote web clipper does the same and more in regards to all of the contents on the internet, including twitter. I find that using EverNote web clipper is more than enough to conduct collection of all information found online. I can also use it to screenshot twitter contents or select tweets while adding in custom text and notes along colorful arrows. Without a doubt, EverNote is now my number one information organizational tool! This will be added onto my Personal Learning Environment alongside Lightshot, the screenshot software that also does some similar edits in comparison to EverNote. However, EverNote creates a database that is accessible on all computer that has an internet connection. This makes it essentially a portable storage of data that you never have to carry around with you. On any public computer, you will be able to add into different notebooks within your EverNote. This tool is the best organizer ever!
Valid and reliable online bookmarks stored using EverNote allows me access to important online information and being able to share them with other audiences. Tools such as this allows me to participate as a content sharing digital citizen as I share my findings with other students in my research group.
Coincidentally this week, my Feedly reading list had an article about digital tools: Smartphones. Apparently now there are smartphones selling for as little as $25. Moreover, it is expected that about 2 billion units of Smartphones will be sold in 2015. This provides an important infrastructure for discovering digital literacy, and for many users, digital citizenship. It makes me think about this idea of digital literacy. Is Digital Literacy simply going to become the common sense of the future?
A century ago, what was once emerging after the spread of type writers and printing press are mass produced writing content. Reading literacy has since then become an important subject of academia. Back then, reading literacy is not close to what it is today at all. There is a wide concern and social classification of those who can read and write as educated and literate citizens. Many of the people living during those times are considered to be illiterate. However, with the growth of newer generation who grew up with an abundance of books and written material to read, reading literacy is no longer considered to be a critical skills that many lacks. It seem almost as if Digital Literacy has now taken over as the new literacy. With newer generation growing up enjoying an ever increasing availability of digital content, digital tools, and electronic tools such as smartphones to explore and discover the digital world, would it be likely that a few generations in the future, Digital Literacy will be as common as reading literacy is today? What do you think?
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