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        Chapter 5 was titled Using Tools to Support Connected Learning. Utilization of tools and technology in today's day and age is so necessary as we live in a world that is consistently adapting to all the new platforms and technologies that are rolled out daily. Some of these technologies have been established for years, and others are up and rising. However, these tools are not necessarily helpful unless the individuals using them understand the context in which the tools can best improve their learning. Otherwise, these tools can simply be a distraction. Some of the tools that were analyzed in Chapter 5 included social bookmarking, which allows you to bookmark the videos that are most important to you and can help, as many are just simply distractions.       One of my favorite topics to talk about in this chapter has to be the tools for connecting in collaborating. I feel like the tools for connecting in collaborating are going to be m...

     As students studying in school and going through these educational systems, we have advanced in our technologies and evolved in the way that we store, organize, and share data. As we continue to advance through our education and go into our professions, it will also be necessary for us to have a multitude of techniques to be able to store, organize, and share data amongst those involved in our career paths. All things in today's day and age seem to have found themselves digitally, and this is unavoidable as we are part of an evolving world filled with technology that has created a much easier flow to many of the processes necessary along these paths in our education, professions, and everyday lives.       The application that I chose for my second SmackDown presentation was Dropbox. Dropbox is an application that many of us have heard of, but until you really dive into it, you realize that there's a little bit more to offer than what you might've ...

         Chapter 6 of The Connected Educator was titled Building Your Connected Learning Community. This chapter was about building a personal learning netw ork and strategies to be successful in doing so. It is very important in many professions if not all to have a strong personal learning network as in these times, we are constantly changing with an evolution of increasing information. There is no one being that knows all things and for that reason sharing information amongst one another in a diverse community allows us to build and learn from different ideas, ideologies, and information from many sources who share the same goals and aspirations in their professional development. A personal learning network becomes a source of intelligence and connection within a network. Utilization of basic tools, such as Twitter, which is now known as X, Flickr, and Delicious were all examples of useful social networks that can help build a strong personal learning ne...

     As students studying in school we don't always necessarily have the time that we need to take care of our bodies at school and education is extremely important and should come first. But when it comes to health, if you don't have your health, you can't have school. think about it without good health how would you be able to attend school? You would most likely be in and out of doctor's appointments or hospitalized for illnesses consistently. Bad health has a tendency to have a chain reaction in our lives regarding what we can do and what we aren't able to do. This is extremely important to me as I go into my career, studying to become a chiropractor and enjoy my time here getting my prerequisite at Stockton.      For this SmackDown application presentation, I have chosen an app that is called Fitbod. Fitbod is an application that utilizes an algorithm and artificial intelligence to become a personal trainer in your pocket. This is a mobile application ...