Week 7

Hello fellow bloggers!

I hope you all had a good break. Over my reading week, I spent a lot of my time utilizing my new Evernote account. After using it for researching digital literacy for ADED and realizing just how useful it was, I decided to use it for personal research too. I created a new notebook all about health and fitness:

I had so much fun learning about a topic that interests me and being able to use Evernote to organize my research for future use! I plan to continue my research and continuously expand on my notebook.

This week, however, I got to explore Google Docs for ADED. Yet again. ADED has introduced me to another tool that is extremely useful to a student like myself. Google Docs is very similar to the well-known Microsoft applications (that I had to pay for unfortunately) but it's free! The tool allows you to upload and store your documents to your account and then you can access them from anywhere. This means that I no longer have to always remember to bring a USB to school or email files that I will need for class etc. I will admit that this will probably help me a lot in the future! Google Docs is also very convenient because everything can be done within the one tool. For example, you can share your work on Google Docs, and therefore, you no longer need to open your email as well as all of your other applications. This is great for group work because constant emails back and forth between multiple people gets very hectic and confusing, especially when people reply to the sender only and not the entire group. Google Docs is also good for group work because everyone can view, edit, and comment on the document at the same time, and see the updates almost immediately. It makes working together via technology so much easier.

As per usual, the first thing I do when I have to learn about a new tool is search it on my Feedly! This week when I searched Google Docs on Feedly I found out that Google Docs has their own blog. I chose to read an article on their blog about their Google Docs app for phones:

Mobile Apps

From :http://googledocs.blogspot.ca/2015/01/updated-mobile-apps.html

The article explains some of the apps new features, and personally, I found the editing feature the most useful. When I realized that I could now access Google Docs on my phone, it became an even better tool! Now, I can access my work on-the-go, anywhere and at any time! Even though doing work on a phone may not seem the most practical or easiest, it is great in case of emergencies and very urgent matters when I may not have access to a computer.  

I will definitely be adding Google Docs to my PLE because I can see it being of great use for my future school work, especially in respects to group work. Each week, I have been adding these tools to my PLE and I don't believe that I need to remove any. I enjoy allowing my PLE to continuously grow as I am educated on these new tools. They are all different and they all have their advantages, so why not embrace them all?! 

I can't wait to see what I can add to my PLE next week. 

All the best,

Jesse