Jenna Greene

Evernote is an app that is designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving. It has numerous options for note taking and keeping notes, including text, web clippings, pictures, voice memos, handwritten notes, making sketches, and scanning documents with your camera. It is a great tool for staying organized in school or in your job or even just keeping track of your daily tasks and to-do's. Evernote is available on iOS, Android, macOS, and Microsoft Windows and will automatically sync everything on your account across all of your devices. This, along with the option to set reminders and make specific appointment notes, allows you to remain time-efficient and provides ease of access for anyone, from student to professional. To see the app in use and get a quick breakdown of how it can be utilized, you can view my presentation here .

With the rise of social media, people of various backgrounds, careers, and personal lives have found a new outlet to share things about themselves and stay connected with others. While there are many benefits that can be had through social media, a person can also experience negative impacts due to their activity online if they make any variety of unwise decisions. To go over this topic more in depth, I have made a presentation covering proper social media etiquette and provided an example of a professional who was negatively impacted by his actions online, that person being James Franco in a situation of messaging a 17-year-old fan. Watch here or follow the link Social Media Etiquette **In the presentation I show a short clip from an interview. I do go over what was said, however you cannot hear the video itself. This is the link to the interview if you wish to watch it yourself: https://youtu.be/jWQGECiTpOE**

Various web 2.0 tools can be used for numerous different things and can enhance learning and story telling. To show some of the ways a few of these tools can be used, I created three ToonDoo's, a Pixton, a PicLit, and a VoiceThread. My ToonDoo's: My Pixton: My PicLit: And the link to my VoiceThread

In chapter eight of The Connected Educator , the authors discuss the importance of sustaining the momentum in learning communities and networks. While in the context of maintaining connected learning communities, I related to the topics discussed on a more individualized level between myself and future patients I will have as an occupational therapist. The first method the authors sugg est is through appreciative inquiry, in which learners work from a strength perspective rather than a deficit perspective (Nussbaum-Beach and Ritter 111). As a future occupational therapist, my goal is to help restore certain skills or aspects of life for my patients. While it may be easy to see that as a way to focus on their weaknesses, it is also an opportunity to use their strengths in order to help them improve in those other areas. Many times occupational therapists have to help patients utilize skills they do have so that they can regain old skills or even develop new ones (like using certain...

“Educators make education meaningful and relevant for themselves and their students by co-creating learning and sharing” (Nussbaum-Beach and Ritter 58). This opening sentence of chapter four in The Connected Educator provides the skeleton for what this chapter is all about--improving learning and learning environments through collaboration. Collaboration is a key component in any job or learning environment, and is an important skill to have in a globalized world. In order to develop strong collaboration, one must put relationships first and foster them through trust, collegiality, shared vision, and group development (Nussbaum-Beach and Ritter). As a student studying to become an occupational therapist, all of the points made in this chapter about collaboration not only apply to me, but are important skills that I will need to have in order to work effectively with my patients and with other healthcare professionals, both in and outside of my own field. In fact, one of my required...

In today’s world, you can find practically anything online. In fact, it’s actually unusual if you can’t find something. The internet has become a major tool for millions of people worldwide. It allows people to connect with others, and it also provides the ability to enhance those interactions, along with creating a plethora of new ways to get something done, whether it be finding published research for a paper, watching T.V., or shopping. With that said, it is important for any business, small or large, to make use of this, because a strong online presence opens the door to new customers and holds it open for old customers to keep them coming back. In order to do this, a company, organization, or individual must have a good website. A good website is crucial to a user’s experience, and commonplaces.com offered their top ten tips to a good website. They are as follows: 1) Responsive design 2) Minimalism 3) User friendly 4) Personalized user experience 5) Extraordinary content ...

Chapter 5 of The Connected Educator is all about learning which tools, and how to use them, help support connected learning. Put well by the authors is that “...tools are not helpful unless users understand the context in which tools can best improve learning” (Nussbaum-Beach and Ritter 74). And thus the chapter begins, with different examples of tools and summaries on how to use them. Nussbaum-Beach and Ritter provide all different tools for different areas of focus. These areas include tools for documenting and archiving learning, connecting and collaborating, social networking, and extending learning in the classroom. Documenting and archiving learning helps you keep track of information or things you’ve found helpful online, like social bookmarking (also known as tagging). Connecting and collaborating helps build your personal learning network using methods such as blogs, RSS readers, and microblogs, like Twitter. Following building up your personal learning network, sites l...

Chapter 2 of The Connected Educator focuses on connected learning communities and the roles they play and the importances they hold. In a connected learning community, there is a three-pronged approach to connect and collaborate, which leads to professional development. These three prongs are: 1) local community, 2) global network, and 3) bounded community. A local community is a professional learning community that has a face-to-face structure focused on student achievement. A global network is also a personal learning network, in which there is a diverse group of people connecting to achieve personal growth. A bounded community is a community of practice or inquiry that is made up of committed individuals with common interests who want to develop deeper connections in order to create systemic improvement (Nussbaum-Beach and Ritter 28). When working, especially to find creative solutions to problems, two minds is almost always better than one. “A driving force behind a com...

Chapter 6 of The Connected Educator opens with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. It reads, “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” This chapter is all about opening doors to create a personal learning network and embarking on a personal path of learning. With technology growing in its presence in all areas of life, including in personal life and career life, it has never been easier to form connections with others. It gives us the opportunity to develop positive and working relationships with people who share common ideologies or goals, whom we may never have connected with otherwise. This enables us to expand our horizons of knowledge and learning by introducing new perspectives and ideas. As the book puts it: In these times of constantly changing, ever-increasing information, it is impossible for  any individual to access, much less know, everything. Instead, knowledge, learning, and  innovation can be managed withi...