Blog 3; Chapter 5

                                                 Using Tools to Support Connected Learning 


    After reading Chapter 5 in The Connected Educator I really enjoyed this chapter personally. I really enjoyed the various tools that were presented through the chapter and after doing slight research on them all I could see them all being extremely useful in my daily life. With the usage of websites like delicious (I found this name hysterical) and diigo they make for such easy and accessible resources to keep you and your website usage organized. 


    As an education major having the accessibility to google docs and things like classroom 2.0 are essential. I liked the idea of Classroom 2.0 being a tool for educators world wide. It allows people to connect and share new resources and save others ideas. Using Ning people are able to create websites and support each others topics, subjects and ideas. 

7 Edtech tools to connect students to a global community - MindShift

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    The tool I thoroughly enjoyed the most was in the tools for extended learning in the classroom section. The tool was called teachertube and after browsing the site myself I found it truly amazing. As a future educator finding as many ways to support learning and finding supplemental resources to enhance my students (as well as my own) experiences is truly neat. It looks as though you can search just about anything on the site and theres a video to go with any of your content areas. 

                                              TeacherTube.com | Salem Media Group

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