Michael Dugan - Discovering Your Digital Portfolio

     Like I said in my presentation GroupMe is a group messaging app. It allows you to make huge groups of people that are organized and convenient. For example, instead of attaching everyone to an email you instead make a chat on GroupMe and add everyone to it. You can do that by either using their phone number, email QR code, or link. This chat will know allow you to send information out fast and send reminders. This is useful for trying to manage a large group, obviously humans forget sometimes, so you can send a reminder to the chat. Also if you need to share a file or image GroupMe allows you to do that quite easily by attaching it to the app and sending it as a message. Another useful feature of GroupMe is making decisions between groups. An example of this is the Owner or Admin of the group chat can set a poll. This poll sets a question and multiple options the members can choose.      I could use GroupMe in both my coursework and my professiona...

    Chapter 6 "Building Your Connected Learning Community" by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, is about how to  create strong learning communities for educators that allow for the sharing of ideas, and the continued learning of professionals. PLNs or Personal Learning Networks, as the author calls them can be expanded through digital tools, websites, blogs, and online communities to expand the knowledge attainable by educators and allow them to be better equipped to do their jobs. These networks share resources and practices and connect those doing the same job. In order to create these networks educators in this case, need to identify and connect with others who share their same goal. This happens on social media or other professional networks. Once in a community, educators can use tweets, blogs, etc. to connect an share their ideas and experiences with the others in the community. The most important way to keep these communities flowing is through meaningful engagement, trust, a...