Friday, September 30, 2016

Diigo VS. Pinterest

This is my ever first review on the modern online tools! I am nervous about what I'm going to say but still excited about the opportunity to say. Feel really evolved ;P! Here we go!

I would rate 5/5 stars to Diigo.
The first thing I like about is that Diigo works really well for doing online research. The bookmark function can be brought to a fuller use by its annotation feature. Thus, instead of spending tons of hours digging into the websites you saved into your bookmark, while using Diigo, you can start to narrow down your search to tags and then to the annotation you made in your earlier visit of the webpages. Once users get familiar with the annotation function in Diigo, their reading will be more focused and later search will be much easier and efficient. In this sense, Diigo is very helpful tool for professional and academic use. Also, Diigo seems have no problem access any websites. To be more concise, you can use Diigo anytime as long as you can open the webpage with Chrome once you add it to Chrome extension. The last comment I give Diigo is that it is very straightforwards and easy to use. All the features Diigo has make it a great bookmark tool but not limited to just bookmark. Personally, I will use it as a library where I keep my resources,  select information and build up my reading.

on the other hand, Pinterest is less professional and academic feel but rather casual.
The good things about Pinterest include enormous eye-catching and self-explanatory images, a wide range of topics/boards, and a lot of innovative ideas shared. Use Pinterest, you can always search for good tips, creative ways of doing and dealing with things. But this could also lead to a drawback. Compared to Diigo, Pinterest is not so straight forward and could be too much and distractive. I found that getting to the source articles or webpage could take more than one clicks or steps, which could be confusing at times. Never the less, it is still a great tool to searching for ideas, information and resource, even less on an academic level.

For our students, I would recommend both. Because I would never know which one would work better for them. It is also possible that what I see easy and useful may not be agreed by the students. Besides, it's better provide them more than one options and they can choose which one to use for their different tastes and different needs.

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