Creatively Curating Content
Last class, we went over the website Paper.li to help find articles related to our majors and interests. This will help us curate content for our twitter accounts and be informed in fields of study. Also, Professor Calderwood told us that we have access to the program OneNote when we use our school email. A feature that I found innovative is the ability to embed audio in the document. My favorite aspect about the class is when I am introduced to software and receive a "crash course" on how to use its features for my academic advantage!
Paper.li allows people to create their own personal, virtual newspaper. One of its best features it provides is automatically posting articles to your social media accounts, with your permission of course. In this article, Jay Palter uses his post to convince his audience why this feature separates Paper.li from similar websites, like Scoop.it for example. One tip Palter mentions is to follow the authors of the sources you follow on Paper.li on Twitter. This way, you are able to further engage with these individuals. When your individualized paper is uploaded via Twitter, the authors' handles will be automatically included in the post. It is also a good idea to include a community hashtag somewhere in the post so it has more traction.
Confused on how to create your own, individualized paper? No worries, because Tim Lenahan wrote the article just for you! When you first create your account, make sure to give your paper a clever name and set the update option to "daily". Next, add some sources. They can be from links found on your Twitter feed or from other blogs. If you add Paper.li to your bookmarks section, it will allow the addition of articles to your newspaper while in the moment. Rather than logging into your Paper.li account in a new tab, the bookmark allows your account to be easily accessible to you. Plus, it will help with preventing clutter caused by multiple tabs.
In the introduction, I talked briefly about my formal first meeting with the program OneNote. I was pleasantly surprised with what the program has to offer. Microsoft OneNote's features grants opportunities for people who cannot utilize typical word processors. For example, OneNote acts as an assistant for people with dyslexia. With the addition of Learning Tools, people with disabilities are able to benefit. The Next Web mentions how the program has the ability to read text while selecting each word as it is spoken. People learning English also benefit by having OneNote. The software can simply words to their syllables and label parts of speech in a sentence. This makes a great method for understanding syntax.
Information is becoming more personalized thanks to websites providing user-generated content. People have more power to share information rather than relying on a big companies or brands. Information is evolving into a more authentic type of medium. Along with independence of content curation, learning is accommodating to the needs to a more diverse crowd. With the feature of OneNote, people who had difficulty before can access and absorb information across different mediums in accordance to their individual needs. The possibilities are endless! Who knows? It could be possible somebody studying English is using OneNote to interpret this blog post!
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