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Blog Journal 8 26 March 2019 Diigo is a service that you can add to your web browser to help you with your research or whatever you are doing online. Working with it in class, I learned I can use it for quick note taking, adding bookmarks to websites I want to visit later, and to annotate those bookmarks with little notes. I can use this in all of my future classes in college and for any research, I will be doing in my future career. It's helpful because it eliminates taking notes and keeping separate documents full of links to websites because you can simply just bookmark the websites and organize them by category. Using PowerPoint for Bloom's Taxonomy Create: Powerpoint could be used within itself by helping students create an original work using it.  A class could be taught on how to use powerpoint in future assignments, and students could be tested by having to create and design their very own powerpoint on their topic of choice. Evaluate: Powerpoint could ...

Blog Journal 7 7 March 2019 I've been a tweeter since I was a wee high-schooler, but since it's surfaced, Twitter has changed drastically. It's transformed into a professional, business communication tool from a silly, friendly social media. By using it in school, I've learned that it's a great way to combine the classroom with a comfortable online forum. We are able to keep it light and joke around while still connecting with our classmates and talking about topics related to whatever we're doing in class. Twitter is pretty easy to use with a very simple interface, so I haven't experienced any issues since it's not too difficult to navigate. This past week, we had to "put on our teacher hats" and create a website for whatever class we decided to teach. I used Wix to create mine, and I found this assignment super fun because I love incorporating creativity into school work and being able to put our own design and flare into projects. I ha...

Independent Learning Project 1: Participation How To Create Great First Impressions Watch my voice thread about what I learned on Lynda.com: https://voicethread.com/share/12205930/ https://voicethread.com/share/12205930/ Vanessa Van Edwards, a  Lead Investigator at Science of People, a human behavior research lab, gives  us some real tips and tricks on how to really sound and took confident, perfect a handshake, the best opening one-liners, and how to keep people engaged for the remainder of our time with them. Before this tutorial, I knew that first impressions were extremely important, but I had no idea how easy it was judge someone just based on small things like the tone of their voice, and not even what they’re saying.  I realized how much easier it is to really engage with someone and leave a lasting impression when you just work on perfecting those first 20 seconds.