My Sixth Blog Post

My initial reaction is that I wish the Diigo website looked more appealing (for whatever reason  I think it looks outdated and ugly lol). However, after having to look up certain websites for the portfolio, I really like the idea of having Diigo to annotate my favorite parts of a website. As someone who forgets things instantly, it's nice that I can highlight things and make a note to myself on certain pages. I can have my own little running thing of websites that I like, which is great because as I was doing this assignment I realized that my computer doesn't save all my bookmarked websites :( I can save them to Diigo now though. I also like this for things like the National Association for Music Education, an organization and fsu club I am in. We could share resources on Diigo and make comments about it, I think the website would be great for that to keep it all in one place and make looking up something specific easy.

As far as blogging goes, I don't mind it in some ways. I kind of like being able to informally type out my thoughts and not think about apa formatting or word count or anything. I don't like that it's every sunday night because I'm a procrastinator, and now matter how many times I tell myself this week will be different, it never is. So it's a reminder to myself that I have the same habit of waiting until the last minute when I'm dead tired to do my homework. If I had a real-life blog, I think I'd post whenever I felt like it and felt inspired. That would probably produce better content too.

A website that I found for Web 2.0 that is music education related is HookTheory.com. I found this on the site https://johnstonb.wordpress.com/category/web-2-0/ which has different resources. Apparently it will write out music for you, which I have always wanted! It makes knowing the key and chords of a song really easy without trying to figure it all out yourself. You can even write your own music with it.




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