GEN 2243 Exploring Your Digital Portfolio Blog

              Chapter five of  The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age  focuses on how technological tools can be used to improve learning, and the process of setting these tools up for success. The first and obvious improvement tip is to use the same (or at least similar) usernames and passwords whenever possible for all of these different tools and sites. These tools are used for purposes of documentation, collaboration, and extending one's knowledge. Documenting websites effectively is difficult, as there are a near endless amount of sites to visit! For documentation, a website called delicious.com is helpful, as it can help keep links and websites you have visited or wish to visit for the future. Delicious can also help find websites and information that may interest you through other users and their saved links, allowing for even further information gathering! Diigo is another documentation option, and a likely...

Obsidian Notes Smackdown On Youtube                          I chose Obsidian Notes for my App Smackdown because I myself have found great success in using this app in personal use. This app is both a web-downloadable app for pc, and downloadable through app stores on phones. This app makes taking notes easier, as well as more cohesive! For advanced use, tech skills may be required, but for most people this is never going to be an issue. Seeing the graph view alongside all the nodes truly helps those who struggle with standard note-taking thrive in an academic and information-driven environment.                         For academic and professional use, the benefits are one in the same. Students and professionals alike can take notes in a streamlined and neat fashion, while also not spamming large walls of text that they will suffer reading bac...

               Chapter six of The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age is entirely dedicated to how one can build a connected learning community. The author brings up how online sites were the go-to for meeting and learning from new people. For the author, the specific site was Newton, a science board for like-minded scientific individuals. On these sites, people can discuss anything for the specific reason of the site's existence; the possibilities are endless! The networks you build between people throughout your lives are essential for future information gathering. Building such a network is not just about following everything you can on social media apps such as Instagram or Reddit, but building meaningful relationships with those you connect with.               To build a successful personal learning network, you need to find the best people to help you in whatever field you w...