Brad's Blog

       When we started the process of working on the websites, I was actually quite intimidated at first. With all of the issues that I tend to have with technology, it was quite intimidating. However, I found the website design to be relatively easy. With simple tools in order to drag and drop things, I felt like I could design a website that at least had the capability of navigation, although I really feel as though many people would be able to do a much better job than me. But, nonetheless I was able to accomplish the goal of producing a website that works. Website     Diigo on the other hand was much easier for me to figure out, and although at times it felt sort of difficult, having the ability to group source information like that was super useful. This is a resource that I would certainly use moving forward, due to the ease of use from multiple platforms. With everything being so contained, it is really good for sharing work and academic article...

      I found Diigo to be a very good interface, although it is not something that I enjoy using due to the fact that there are several sub-menus that I have to navigate through. Although as someone who is generally bad with technology, I found it to be surprisingly easy to work my way through. I thought that the highlighting and sticky note functions in it were incredibly easy to use and useful tools for the future, although I am under the impression that Diigo is a paid service that I will be unable to access. But with that being said, I did find it to be much easier to use than I had previously expected going into the process.     Blogging has been an alright experience for me, I typically have strong opinions about things so it is not very difficult for me to write all of the required sentences for these assignments. I don't know if I have learned much from blogging, but it is really nice to hear from classmates and see what they think about the sa...

 My early interactions with twitter have been minuscule in nature to be honest, but I do not tend to use social media anyway. While I recognize the importance of using theses sites, and how the influence of social media grows constantly I am trying to hold off on it for a little while. When I have used it though, I really do enjoy seeing some of the things published by NPR, since it posts links to the articles as they come out in real time. While I think that twitter might not be the tool, I know that some form of social media will dominate social network that we are all a part of. I really do think that the digital divide is something that greatly affects students in school as we are seeing now, especially due to COVID. While there are people who do not have internet at their house, we have lost the ability to loiter at places like coffee shops and other "free wifi" destinations, and its proving slowly but surely that since internet is a necessity, it should be subsidized fo...