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Blog #5- Social Media Tools I'll Utilize

Buzzsumo is a research and monitoring tool that allows users to find out what content is popular by searching through a topic or website. Basically, you are able to search content most shared on social media by social influencers to gain knowledge about. Usually, its content is worthwhile for users if it is interesting enough and secondly, if it is circulating through social media online. I will be using this social media tool in the near future to understand challenging topics related to the medical field. There are certain ethics that I would like to learn about and see how physicians handle difficult decision making. It would be essential for someone like me to understand fully what is going on and read about subjects that I never gave much thought to. Canva is a graphic-design tool that uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. This is a great way to create a beautiful, aesthetic website loaded with enou

Blog #4 Chapter 4 - Building a Collaborative Culture

In chapter 4 of The Connected Educator, learners will understand how important is to build a collaborative culture by sharing certain values, norms, and beliefs with other educators. By building relationships, there will be a change that is effective in the long run. A change in culture is "reculturing." In this type of collaboration, "...stakeholders are involved in studying how to change the culture" (pg 58). The very first thing to keep in mind in having an effective collaboration is putting relationships first. Nussaum-Beach explains, "Fostering, nurturing, and maintaining positive, congenial relationships is the first step toward building collaborating cultures- in your school and in a more global connected learning community" (pg 59). Having a congenial relationship means being polite and friendly with others and cooperating. And then collegiality is a belief that no one is smarter than the other and everyone can give contribution to a practice. E

Blog #3 Chapter 5 - Using Tools to Support Connected Learning

Chapter 5 of The Connected Educator explains using digital tools for documenting and archiving learning. This section is important in learning how to build your personal learning network . The chapter begins with "social bookmarking" which categorizes, archives, and organizes content while connecting with colleagues and friends who do the same. You learn from one another and use that information to better yourself as an educator. You will find ways to keep track of your findings on the web. One of them is Social Bookmarking . "Social bookmarking is a useful and a fun way to organize it while connecting with friends and colleagues and discovering new articles and links along the way" (pg 74). Some examples of them include Delicious, which is a popular website for bookmarking and tagging websites. Another example is Diigo. This is similar to Delicious, except with enhanced features. Both of these websites allow you to create a community of people who share rese

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