So, I am looking at this task from the perspective of having already completed the Concepts assignment.

A little about my organisational methods during the assignment -

At some stages, while furiously trying to complete the assignment I had something like three instances of Firefox running with at least 25 open tabs in each window. Chaotic to say the least. How to organise such information as URL, author, institution and a summary?

The first step for me is to organise relevant searches by using the browsers ‘bookmark’ function. Searches are then grouped into folders and tagged with keywords for later retrieval. Some sites, however, can be ambiguous in retrieval when returning to view the bookmarks, especially if the website is described in a hard-to-decipher URL, or if my tagging is not up to scratch. I’m also afraid to admit that the collection of the majority of annotated information that I require for bibliography purposes comes after the fact of retrieving and using the information. I think we’ve all been there?

Continuing on from my keen ability to only come across something worthy ‘after the fact’ I have been experimenting with Diigo a Web highlighter, sticky notes and annotation tool. Here is an Diigo annotated extract of information that has been produced from a particular website for a source that I used in the concepts assignment – “Human Computer Interfaces”.

diigo_annotation_extract

This could have been useful, especially paired with the Diigo bookmarking feature as a means of information location. I especially like the ability to add in and share your own comments via the sticky note function.

Next time I just know I will be more organised!

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