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App Smackdown

In class last week, we all did an app smackdown. An app smackdown is when you give a brief overview of an app that you found and discuss it in a certain amount of time. Considering the vast capabilities of apps, 2 minutes is definitely not enough time. The app I talked about was Adobe Capture. Adobe Capture is an app that lets you take pictures of different things in the world and vectorize them or save their color scheme for later. The app also backs up everything you do to your Adobe Creative Cloud. After that, we played a game called Kahoot and talked about note taking apps such as EverNote and OneNote.

The Ultimate Simplified Guide 

To The Use Of Evernote In Education

Evernote is a note-taking app that lets you open any note that you have taken on any device by logging into Evernote. This app helps you stay organized so you can take notes efficiently. It also makes note taking easy, if you’re taking notes from the internet you can highlight words and send it to your Evernote. Evernote’s app for mobile devices is very useful, its easier to organize notes and go through them. You can search key words in all of your notes and you can also see where you wrote your notes. Evernote is an awesome app for students to use and is much better compared to an old fashion notebook. Here is a helpful guide to get you started.

Save Emails to OneNote

OneNote is almost the same as Evernote, they are both digital notebooks. The app lets you open notes wherever you are, as long as you are logged in to your Microsoft account. OneNote also saves and synchronizes your notes automatically so you never have to worry about losing your notes. OneNote also lets you save emails in your notes. First you have to sign up for OneNote or if you have an Outlook account you can sign up that way. You are going to want to choose your email address that you want to use for saving emails. Then you’re going to want to choose your location on where you want the emails saved. Last step is to email it to your OneNote so you can open it up anytime you want. To help you get started read this.

Pocket Now Works With A 

Font To Aid Those With Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a disorder that involves difficulty in learning to read, interpret words, or even understanding numbers. Dyslexia is a decoding disorder where you can’t connect sounds with letters. For example, the word cat is spelled “C-A-T” but somebody with Dyslexia would probably spell it as “K-A-A-A-A-T” because that’s the way they hear it. Pocket, previously named "Read It Later," is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. The Pocket app just came out with a font that is easier for people with Dyslexia to read. The font has subtle changes in them to help prevent confusion with characters that look the same. When you set the new font, the Pocket app will convert all pages to that font. I think it's very cool that an app created its own font. Being a person that has Dyslexia and a Graphic Designer who spends hours looking at fonts, I think this is amazing. I want to know what the font is called so I can use it on all of my designs. This article was awesome and everybody should know about it.

Chapter 2- The Connected Educator

Chapter 2, in the book “The Connected Educator”, talks about connected learning communities. The chapter talked about the professional learning community, personal learning network, and a community of practice or inquiry. Professional learning community or PLC, is when a group of teachers meet face-to-face and share ideas to improve teaching skills. Professional learning networks or PLN, is when individuals develop their own network online that help them become better teachers. Lastly, the community of practice or inquiry or CoP, is when people meet or talk online about something that is bothering them or something they really like, so they can help each other fix it or become better at that task.

Patterns on Twitter

This week on Twitter, I posted a bunch of things about class such as my app smackdown, how I got 2nd in Kahoot, my first EverNote experience, an article about Pocket’s new font, and Adobe patterns. The link I posted is some cool designs about eyes and how they are used in patterns. The images are really cool and they aren’t distracting, unlike most patterns. I think the eyes have a cool pop art look to them and a cool color scheme. It also shows some of the patterns on objects like a book and shoes. After seeing these patterns, I would definitely start to develop a pattern of my own.

How Big Is Your Digital Footprint?

Digital Footprints

In class this past Wednesday, we discussed the power of social media. Digital footprints are everything that someone posts, shares, and logs into. There are various positive and negative sides of every social media platform. The discussion with Cameron Brenchley was very informative about how professional establishments use social media to inform the public. Cameron Brenchley, Vice President at Collaborative Communications Group, discussed how everything posted is proof read and checked vigorously before being posted to the public. We also discussed how Cameron actually went to college for history and served in the Air Force before claiming his current position.

Attention young professionals! 

What's in your digital baggage?

As young professionals with so many ways to post, share, and incriminate ourselves using social media, it is very important to be smart before posting. Jared was not “social media savvy” in this video. Potential employers use social media to collect information and get a general idea of what kind of person they are hiring. Digital baggage can help potential employers root out future problems. I, personally, try not to post anything that may cause problems for myself in the future. Many people forget how easy it is to “Google” someone and retrieve any information you want about them. I see many future professionals post pictures of parties or using drugs, which is a big red flag for anyone who potentially wants to hire them.

What's your digital footprint?

A digital footprint can potentially ruin someone’s professional career. A digital footprint is anything someone shares, posts, or even logs into. Some people think that after a photo or post is “deleted” that it is gone forever. A digital footprint can be permanent. No one can take off their entire existence from the internet. Everyone is accountable for what they post and share online and it can be used against them at any time. There is more information about digital footprints in this article.

How to successfully use Snapchat for your career

Snapchat is an app that is designed to share “stories” by giving people the chance to capture short videos or pictures and have them disappear after being viewed once. People also have the ability to make instances apart of their semi-permanent story and can be viewed multiple times by followers. Snapchat can be used to showcase creative resumes. It can also be used to show future employers a glimpse into a possible employee’s personal life. An example of this can be an artist seeking employment showing his/her home studio and creations. More information on Snapchat and it’s useful features can be found here.

Chapter 1- Untangling the Web

Chapter 1 discussed web tools that can be used such as Diigo and Symbaloo. Diigo reminds me of Facebook for teachers. On Diigo you can highlight things on any website and add notes or comments on articles as well. Diigo is really good for bookmarking information that you come by on the internet. Symbaloo is also a good tool to use. I didn’t know to much about until I read the chapter. Symbaloo saves your websites that you bookmark in neat little titles that you can login from any device, so you have them wherever you go. To get a better understanding of how Symbaloo worked, I looked up a video that was really helpful.

Facebook Pros and Cons on Twitter

This week, I posted a link to Twitter of my Google Slides about the Pros and Cons of Facebook. Facebook has a large amount of positive and negative aspects. Facebook can be used to help people access a company on a tablet or phone easily. This social media platform can be used to invite people to events effortlessly and without the need for addresses or postage. It also gives the host the opportunity to make changes and have them show up as a notification so that way everyone stays updated. Facebook is an easy way for businesses’ to rate customer satisfaction and boost marketing. The negatives of this platform is that some competitors can easily steal ideas and use them to boost their own online presence. If a Facebook page is to be successful, then there must be someone who is dedicated to updating frequently, usually multiple times a day. Facebook is an easy place for people to be scammed. It can also be a place where profiles are duplicated and used to post falsely on someone’s behalf.