Digital Portfolio Ed

     We are almost halfway through the semester of Exploring Your Digital Portfolio and we have absorbed a significant amount of information.  But, there is always room for more learning. This week's lesson centered around writing an APA style paper which I was not familiar with at all.  I have written MLA style papers in previous courses.  We were sent a link to a You Tube video curated by Tom Kluxen , one of the head tutors of the Writing Center at Stockton University Here is my synopsis of the video.       The video is about 40 minutes in length and provides key guidelines for writing an APA style paper. APA is an acronym for the American Psychological Association.  This style of paper is used in research papers in the social science fields.  Research in these fields is constantly changing and updating so the information available does as well. The two key components of this paper according to Tom are format and ci...

 Week 4 of Exploring Your Digital Portfolio introduced me to my digital footprint.  Prior to this class,  it was a term that I myself had never used.  In her blog What is Your Digital Footprint?,  Lisa Nielsen provides a definition from Webopedia  that describes it as, the trail, traces or footprints that people leave online. It is information transmitted online, such as forum registration, e-mails and attachments, uploading videos or digital images and any other form of transmission of information- all of which leaves traces of personal information about yourself available to others online. In her blog post, she also provides helpful information for establishing an online identity. She stresses that what you do online is permanent so careful consideration should be taken when establishing your digital trail. Giving millions of people access to so much of your personal information online can be very dangerous and have negative consequences. ...

Our third week of Exploring Your Digital Portfolio was chock full of information as usual.  We explored several new options for organization, automation, and research. As previously discussed, we have work on developing a PLN (professional learning network).  A requirement for the development is being able to educate yourself and others in your network.  Professor Calderwood introduced us to two additional sources of information that would further help to automate our engagement within our network. The first source of information was Flipboard . Using this website or app we are able to personalize content based on our interests and desired careers.  Each day current news articles are delivered to our inboxes or an alert is sent from the application. It gives us the ability to learn and to share relevant information with our PLN. The use of the application is free.  The second source of information we learned to use was Paperli .  The use of this website ...

     Our lecture for the second class of Exploring Your Digital Portfolio was about Google.  I have to say my mind was blown.  Being 20+  years older than the average college student, I literally had no idea of a fraction of what Google was capable. I have only used it to search the web, Gmail, and maps.      The first Google product that I would really like to familiarize myself with is Google Docs. As someone who has been employed in the banking and finance industry for over 18 years I thought Microsoft Office was what everyone used for everything. Two years ago when my daughter was applying to colleges she asked me to proof-read her essay. She told me to just go ahead and make corrections to it on Google Docs.  At the time I just dismissed it as some new technology that schools were using so that students could collaborate on projects and assignments.  I read the essay and made some corrections.  She then sent it to ...