GEN 2243 - Exploring Your Digital Portfolio

The main point in chapter 4 of the book titled “The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age” is putting relationships first. The chapter discusses how relationships matter in the workplace or school environment, either it’s face-to-face interactions or through social media. There are two different types of relationships that were mentioned in this chapter which are congenial and collegiality. Congenial refers to being polite and having friendly relationships with each other. An example of this would be if you’re trying to decide which one of your friends to take on a long road trip, you should choose the most congenial one since they will be the easiest and friendliest person to get along with. On the other hand, collegiality is the shared authority between two or more people who work together. An example of this would be a group of teachers sharing the responsibility of student discipline.     Since I am a CSIS (Computer Science and Information Syste...

For my web tool 2.0 smackdown I choose Google Docs. I'm sure most of you have used Google Docs before in your college or high school career. If you haven't heard it, I'm here to explain what it is and the features of it. Just like Microsoft Office suites such as word, power point, and excel, google has variations of it such as Google Docs, slides, and spreadsheets. Google Docs is a free Web-based application which documents and spreadsheets can be created, edited, and stored online. Files can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection. Google Docs comes free with any user who has a G-mail account. It is simple and very convenient application for students all across the world. Google Docs has various features that are very helpful and suitable for users. I personally used Google Docs to work on group projects for multiple of my classes. Google docs allows users to share and view and work on them in real time. This comes in handy when a group project is due f...

In chapter 5 of the book titled “The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age” it focuses on how to use different web tools, what they are utilized for, and how they can support us in our future. The multiple web tools that the book mentioned was documenting and archiving, connecting and collaborating, social networking, and extending learning in the classroom. Documenting and archiving are mostly social bookmarking web tools. Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Some examples of social bookmarking web tools are Delicious and Pinterest. Delicious was founded in 2003 and made the term “tagging” popular. Tagging allows users to organize their bookmarks and develop shared vocabularies. On the other hand, Pinterest was created in 2010 and is known as a social network that allows users to visually share and discover new interests by pinning on images or videos. </p> Connecting and co...