Digital Tools for 7/19/13

Digital Tools 7.19.13

Class Reflections

 

I really enjoyed the presentation by Ginny and Jennifer last night.  It has encouraged me in my quest to go paperless!  I am glad to have started this process now, while I am mid-way through my program.  I can continue to use I Annotate to read and respond to PDFs and then move them to do a lit review.  Unlike Jennifer, I don’t think I can do the digital books.  I would prefer to type my notes up and move them when I begin the paperless lit review.

I liked the Josh Johnston Atlas ti examples in the text, and I appreciated you showing us how you do the lit review in Atlas.   I can see how valuable it would be to organize myself this way.  I do need to invest in an additional monitor so that I can move some items off my main screen.  I am someone who sits at the kitchen table and sorts all of my sources out.  I need to have digital space instead of a big kitchen table.

I feel good about my first skill builder – Mendeley.  Again, I think I am learning about this at precisely the right time.  Have enough stuff to organize, but not too much to be completely overwhelmed with the task.   I also have some peace of mind that all my info will not be gone in an instant should my computer crash.   

I am conflicted about my next skill builder.  I could do I Annotate, as it is a new tool for me and I am using it every day and using it to go paperless.  But, after seeing the lit review in Atlas ti, I wonder if I should try that out.  I could use all my DP articles and notes and organize using Atlas to write my final paper in that class.  Not sure yet…so many options.