With the warm weather approaching, I hope everyone is getting excited for summer! It was a busy week in ADED 1P32 with 3 different blog posts. I have enjoyed this class so far because it is increasing my knowledge on digital learning and the different tools that I can use all through the web.
Feedly
This week, an article that caught my eye on Feedly is about how families with their busy lives do not get to eat dinner together anymore. It is very important to eat dinner with your family as often it is the only time to spend all together in a day. The person writing the article is asking multiple questions about why it never seems to work. For example, staying late at the office to finish up tasks.
I can relate to this article because growing up with 6 kids in my family meant that there was slim to none time to be together with everyone. We were all actively involved in travel sports therefore when we got time to be together, it was very special. It was impossible to eat dinner all together because we all had different schedules. However, I would notice that we had not spent family time together and would try to organize a time that everyone could be home for example Sunday at dinner.
From one of the Scenario's I had commented on from a classmates blog, I was able to make a connection to Feedly. One of the scenarios was about a child that was using technology so much that it was ruining their social aspects of life. This can be another issue in families as children are now on their phones at the dinner table. There are many distractions in the world today that can alter our communication with others, but it is important to keep in person contact prevalent in a digital society.
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| http://www.sgcofc.com/family-weekend-youre-invited/ |
If you want to view the article you can see it here:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/how-asking-5-questions-allowed-me-to-eat-dinner-with-my-kids/?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
Voicethread
Voicethread is a very useful tool for collaboration, alike Google Docs. I especially liked how with Voicethread you could use your voice or webcam to comment on slides. This is showing the increasing use of multimedia and how effective tools like this can be for group work. Voice thread can be used to collaborate on group projects, work meetings or new ideas and social means to decide on certain things.
Personal Learning Environment
I intend to add Voicethread to my PLE because I can add it into my Presentations part of my learning environment as well as a communication tool. I will use it for school group work within the next few weeks because it is a very useful tool that anyone can access. I have already used it as a communication tool by commenting on slides and collaborating with other group members. My PLE has grown immensely during this semester through all of the tools that I have learned about and began to use. It is interesting to continue to learn about all of the tools that can help us to further our education and learn more about the interesting parts of the digital world.
If anyone has anything to share or any more ideas for using Voicethread, please share!
Thanks for reading,
Sammy
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