DTL Reflection- Diigo and Symbaloo Reflection

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So many clouds!

   People are always on the go and need tools that will support them in organizing their favorite websites and documents.  Many people use clouds to store their documents, pictures, and videos on the go.  Websites are as important too for people to be able to access on the go.  People sometimes attach their favorite websites to their Google account or even e-mail web address to themselves.  There are more organized options to access your websites on the go.
    Diigo and Symbaloo are key resources to organize your favorite websites.  Below is a comparison of the two websites.

Diigo

Pros:

• It is professional looking.
• Capability to tag your resources to easily search them.
• Upload images, documents, and notes.
• Bookmarking websites is easy.
• Diigo application available for easier access.
• Diigo Google app to bookmark websites easily.
• Option to join groups of people that share interests.
• Tools available to organize notes, documents, images, and websites by date, type of file, unread, and public or private posts.
• Able to share Diigo bookmarks.

Cons:

• Not very kid friendly.
• Can seem very wordy for students that have difficulty reading.

Symbaloo

Pros:

• Easy for students to use.
• Use of pictures to connect to websites.
• Able to make a variety of Symbaloo pages to organize bookmarked websites.
• Can share and search other user bookmarked pages.

Cons:

• Not able to upload images, documents, and notes.
• Not an option to join groups of people interested in the same thing.
  

    When I think about which website I prefer, it depends on the purpose of the bookmark site.  If I am bookmarking sites for myself or to share with other professionals I would use Diigo.  It looks more professional and it is more organized.  It is also helpful that you can upload pictures and documents to this website.  I would prefer to use Symbaloo with my students because pictures represent websites and it looks more fun.  I could see my students not feeling swamped with all the text that is on the Diigo website.