Emily Nelson Digital Portfolio

 Chapter 4 Blog  02/29/24 The importance of networking and collaboration is the key takeaway from this chapter because, in any field of work, you have to have networking skills to build yourself and the company you work for. Networking and people skills also go hand because if you can't talk to people you can't accomplish much, networking as a whole is meant to be a social thing and to show people how you can flourish in that environment. Even before having a job networking is what gets you a job in the first place. Collaborations are a great way to get your name and image out there, especially in connected learning communities. One of the most common ways to help build and grow a connected learning community is through networking and collaboration, it's easy cheap, and definitely helps do things efficiently. Nowadays it's quite easy to network because of all the outlets such as Linked In or social media but in past years these things weren't accessible or offered ...

Emily Nelson 02/27/24 Chapter 5 is all about the tools that can be used to help further develop and support our connected learning communities. This chapter also talks about tools not only for this but also for extending learning communities in the classroom, online reputation/etiquette, and even for collaboration.   At the beginning of this chapter, we talk about tools such as social bookmarking, tagging, the Delicious website, and even the Digo website. Social bookmarking is when you save/ bookmark something on your computer or mobile device for easier quicker access. Tagging is social bookmarking by a different name which is just another any to keep content organized and concise as well as easily accessible. The delicious website is useful because it is what can be used to save websites and tags more effectively, essentially this website was designed to make tagging/ bookmarking slightly more user-friendly and organized. Digo is almost the same as this website and offe...

 Emily Nelson Chapter 6 - Building Your Connected Learning Community  02/15/24 Chapter 6 highlights what is needed to build your own connected learning community, it also offers tips from the author on how to build this successfully. There is also a specific way to nurture someone's personal learning network with things such as watching who you follow, having a clear username that is cohesive with the rest of your accounts, getting ideas from someone who has already done this, and even getting a mentor. When starting to build your own personally connected learning community it must be understood that social media and technology make it so that no matter what you post it's out there forever and you must hold yourself to a higher standard.  This chapter also incorporates how to add the community side into connected learning communities. This chapter explains how to keep your personal learning within the community by incorporating the people and that could lead to both parti...

Canvas Project -  Emily Nelson Blog response #2  02/13/24 Powerpoint Canvas is an educational technology commonly used by schools and universities everywhere. Canvas' self-explanatory nature makes it very user-friendly. On this site, you can access your courses, modules, assignments, quizzes/ tests, and you can even directly message your teachers through Canvas. This platform is very organized as well, and personally, when I do my school work or work I prefer organization it makes me less stressed. Just the way everything is set up, it is nearly impossible to miss an assignment because you didn't see it because Canvas messages you and lets you know, also all assignments due that week show up in colors and big letters. Canvas also has an app so that no matter where you go you can check in on whatever you need from wherever you are.  Why is Canvas better than other educational technology out there, what makes it stand out? To answer this question I want to go into more dept...