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Web 2.0 Tools: Evernote

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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 .

Social Media Etiquette

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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**

Web 2.0 Tools: Storytelling

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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

The Connected Educator: Sustaining the Momentum

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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...