My first podcast ever! A little about myself short and simple. Was not aware we were to post this until reviewing the syllabus so its a little out of order. Oops!
https://soundcloud.com/fredduerr
https://soundcloud.com/fredduerr
My first podcast ever! A little about myself short and simple. Was not aware we were to post this until reviewing the syllabus so its a little out of order. Oops!
https://soundcloud.com/fredduerr
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So far I think the best professional networking site is LinkedIn. It seems to be a very professional site (unlike facebook) where everyone on there has the same common interest, to get recognized and showcase themselves. Facebook seems more of a social site to stay connected to friends and family whereas LinkedIn is more towards staying connected to other professionals in the same field and even in other fields. Twitter is also another good networking site because it allows us to connect with a lot of people at the same time and in current time. I like how a team page can be updated and seen by everyone following almost instantly. This is useful for giving information about upcoming events, seminars, and things of that sort. I am curious to see how long in the future it will be until every job requires some kind of online portfolio or professional web page.
Wikis can be very useful in education today. I have used Googledocs many times in my undergrad studies and it made it so much easier when communicating to a group of people for an assignment. Rather than the traditional email where some emails could go overlooked or read out of order or even being worked on at the same time, a wiki allows students to edit the exact same paper for other students to see. This allows a group paper to be done for everyone to see it quick and not after one of the group members formats it and sends it to everyone else. Wikipedia is said to be the largest wiki and it is a good and bad wiki. It is good because there is a lot of information on almost any subject you can possibly think of. It is bad because it is unregulated and anyone can access the information and change it. This includes people who know nothing about a certain subject but still post information about it.
There were a few main things I noticed that were different between LinkedIn and Facebook. LinkedIn seemed to be very more professional than facebook and seemed as if it were more used for being looked at by a job interviewer or someone in the same field as me. It was much more about my own accomplishments and what I am good at and what I know. It seemed to almost be a way to brag about what I have done, can do, and know. Facebook seems to be much more social friendly and includes a bragging of a different type. It seems most people brag on facebook about what they are doing like traveling or vacationing or other fun activities. People include pictures of new gifts or new items they just received and/or vent about stuff going on in their life. It is a lot less professional than LinkedIn and a lot more immature (at least on my facebook news feed). I doubt I would ever see someone on LinkedIn posting something about drinking or partying or venting about ex significant others.
I think my personal web presence can be beneficial to my profile because it can give someone more information about me. It should include my resume and philosophy and a little about myself. There should also be links to the different social media sites I am apart of for easy access if they want to look through any of them. That person could get to know me a little better just by going to my personal page. They could also get a feel for my character through these sites and also through my blog posts (because there are so many). They can understand how I think and where I would go with my thoughts. There also needs to be contact information easily findable and readable so I can be contacted quickly and easily.
I think apps in the school setting can be beneficial but can also be a bad thing. They can be beneficial because they can use technology like spreadsheets or trackers to help in the classroom rather than the traditional hand written ways. I found an app that could be useful in class called Teacherkit. It allows the teacher to do multiple things such as keep track of attendance easily, create seating charts, and form different class sections. The role call part of it is nice because there can be a picture placed next to the name of the student. There is also a behavior section where the teacher can give good marks or bad marks which is easy to read and keep track of. It does not have to be kept track of in a notebook and tallied at the end of the semester. There is also a grade book section which can be helpful for the teacher so they do not have to carry around a binder grade book.
Some of the negatives of apps in the classroom are that not all students have smart phones and can use the same apps. This would cause a problem if only 75% of students could access apps in class. If the school was a "techy" school and provided ipads or laptops, or computers then the problem would be solved. I can picture a scenario where all students watch a series of videos on Youtube with headphones plugged in and then respond to each video. This would allow students to pay closer attention than a projector and work at their own pace. They would be able to retain more information with short video sessions with responses rather than one long video with a lot of writing after. I was definitely surprised at the number 1 being twitter for learning. This might be because I hadn't had a twitter before this class so I do not know much about it. I can see why google docs, youtube, powerpoint and google are the next leaders. I use those on an eery week basis. I was surprised though that Wikipedia was at 18. It is not a reliable source but I guess for quick and dirty information, it is an ok site to use. I would definitely not for a research paper or anything like that though. I assume facebook is used for learning because it helps people stay current with the newspapers pages on everyones news feeds. There are also current events in the news that pop up all the time on my feed. I have heard of linkedIn and that it is a good network builder but I have to look further into it. I use 7 out of the top 10 on a regular basis so I would say this list is pretty accurate for me. I did not know I used so many of them already (probably around 30-40 of the top 100)
Web 2.0 as compared to 1.0 is much more interactive than before. Rather than looking up and receiving information, people can now communicate with each other about the information. There are more ways to interact with the information you receive by posing questions and possible reviews based on real human experience. People are able to view the information from other people's experiences and use that to make decisions. I have personally researched products I have bought online on many different sites. I usually do a lot of research on different sites before purchasing anything online. I always read almost every review of a product I want that way I can get a feel for the reliability of the reviews. I have heard sometimes the company writes fake reviews to sell their products so I am always careful for that.
The term online productivity tool was completely foreign to me although I have used some of them before! I guess it really isn't foreign because I just didn't know thats what they were called. I have used google docs many times in my undergrad career because when there were group projects everyone could contribute their ideas instantly and we could work from home. We did not have to set dates and times to meet up because everyones schedules were different and we could use this tool. I also use pandora almost daily (the free version) and it is one of my favorite tools/apps I use on a regular basis. Another one I use is map my run, a tool that tracks the distance you ran and keeps track of the time. I like this one a lot because I like to explore when I go running but I also like getting in a certain distance and this tool allows me to do both!
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