ILP #1 Participation - Webinar

       I viewed a webinar from the website EdTechTeacher that discussed new research tools that teachers can use in the classroom. The hosts, Beth Holland and Sabba Quidwal, discussed their previous usage of applications like Diigo, EverNote, and Google Hangout to collaborate and share notes and information with their groups in higher education. They went on to discuss the new program called Papers, which allows teachers to share their PDF and Word files with their entire class. It also has an e-reserve of past files that students can download, creating a sort of digital library for the class.

       The Papers program can be accessed through a mobile app as well as a website. The company offers a 40% discount to students using the program, as well as a monthly subscription option to students who would only need to use the program for a few months during school. I found the discussion about Papers very interesting, because it appears to be a very user-friendly application that allows students to easily organize all their readings from different courses by using tags, color-coding, star ratings, and collections of different authors, titles, and courses. The webinar primarily discussed using Papers in higher education, especially in a doctoral program, which increased my interest in the program. I can see myself using the Papers application throughout college and my future Master's and Doctoral programs, to make all my research and readings easy to access and re-read when necessary.