Final Blog

To begin with, I really did not like the website Cited. I found it to be a difficult website to navigate. I had to read the instructions several times to figure out how to add sources to it. Plus, I had a hard time finding articles that I found directly helpful. I finally wound up just selecting articles that were easy to find, rather than finding articles that were specifically helpful to me and my colleagues. The articles were on topics that would be helpful, like internet safety and social media sites and usages, but they were not articles that I was specifically interested in. I tried searching different terms (like multimodality) and nothing came up. This was disappointing to me. When I emailed the toolkits to my colleagues, I explained that I picked general articles for my colleagues to read, but they were not specifically on topic. I did not get a response from my colleagues, nor do I expect to hear from them any time soon. They are all busy wrapping up the end of the year and have been so overwhelmed by forced changes this year that none of them are interested in learning anything else new - even if it is something that they initially showed interest in! Overall, I like the idea of this website, but I would rather find articles through my own research and post them on a community blog where my colleagues can read them and respond to them in one central location rather than trying to navigate Cited.org.