Weekly Report and Reflection #7-- Google Docs

Hello Everyone!

Welcome back from reading week! Hope everyone had a good, fun and relaxing week. I can’t say I did, but mine was worth every second! Competing in a competition and placing FIRST PLACE---yes that was the best thing that could have happened! Anyways getting back from reading week I was on my Feedly this week and I came across this video on Business Insider—don’t worry it’s different from the usual. This was about fruits and vegetables and how they looked before we domesticated them. I found it very cool and interesting, maybe because I love food! But I thought it was interesting so I thought why not share it with my fellow readers!

This week we got to work with an online tool that most of you are probably familiar with called Google Docs. I have used this tool before this class but I personally never made my own document or anything. I would just edit and work on my part and that was it. We got a chance to use this tool to work on our collaborative group project with our classmates to enhance our digital learning. I think this is so smart because your group and you could be in different places and it is possible to have a complete project done. The benefits of Google Docs—amazing right! This is so helpful because it not only makes it convenient for people, but it allows more than one mind on the particular work.   

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Google Docs is an online tool that allows people to collaborate with others and create documents, power points and much more through their own devices. It has multiple functions and it works as the same as Microsoft Word, making it more appealing and easy to use. Google Docs could be used for many things for example group projects, papers, essays, assignments and they could also be used on a personal level like notes. You could connect with people across the world and share your knowledge with each other. You can get more information and understanding on Google Docs video.

One reason I absolutely love using Google Docs is because I don’t have to worry about carrying my laptop everywhere just to finish up work. I can go to school and sit on any computer. Before this when I just used Google Docs to finish my part of an assignment I never looked at it in much detail so I never gave it much attention. I never pulled it out when I needed a document; my first instinct would be Microsoft Word. Now that I used it on my own and read fellow peers experiences with it, it has made me realized that it’s very similar to Microsoft Word and that I think is essential because it’s functions are helpful when writing an essay or anything for that matter.

I already have Google Docs in my PLE and I would definitely keep it for the future as well because I believe it’s a great tool. I would also recommend it to anyone who has not used it or has but hasn’t created a document on their own. It definitely changes everything! Hope this blog helps understand Google Docs!

Thank you for reading and until next time, BYE!

Nisha Nayyar  

Weekly Report and Reflection Post #6

Welcome back everyone! Hope everyone had a good reading week.

Before I talk to you about this week, I would just like to quickly share an article I found on Feedly in the  Business Insider. I know that I share a lot of business articles, but hey what can I do I just find it all so interesting. So this article is about Coca Cola and Pepsi using a new marketing strategy to sell their products. Not sure if anyone finds it interesting but can’t blame me, blame my interests and love for business. Just kidding! So this article talks about both companies diversifying their products and introducing healthier options. Of course we have to wait and see if they are successful at that.

Google (2016)

So this week we got the chance to learn about an amazing tool called EverNote. This is an online tool where you can create notes, view them for later, share with fellow classmates and friends and keep everything organized in one place. It is a great tool because you can access your work from any device and work on it from any device. In addition to that, you can set reminders, and read your notes later. You can also add web clipping, which are added straight to your EverNote keeping everything together. While exploring EverNote, I learned that digital learning is way more than I ever imagined. I mean I only thought of digital learning as emails and finding articles, but through this course so far it has been much more. To be a good digital citizen, there are so many ways. Google Docs is also another way. If you want more details on EverNote you can check out the introduction to EverNote. Through these past six weeks, I got the chance to learn about different tools of digital learning. I did not know that any of this existed so I think I have already become a better digital citizen from when I started this course. Of course you could always learn something new, but it has helped me be a better student as well.  

EverNote is an essential tool for success and I would definitely put it in my PLE. Of course I wasn’t introduced to this sooner otherwise I would have been already using it. I think it solves all my problems because my issue was trying to access something from different devices. This makes it come true. I would recommend anyone who hasn’t already to try this tool out because it easy very easy and helpful.

Thanks for reading!

Nisha  

     

Weekly Report and Reflection Post #5

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Welcome back for another great post!

This week when I was on my Feedly, I came across an article from Business Insider. As everyone probably already knows this weekend is the Super Bowl. Who’s excited for that? So the article that I came across is about a football player Marshawn Lynch, who apparently has never spent any of his earned money till this day! Cool eh? I think you guys should all check it out! Don’t worry I am not a sports fan but this article was very interesting so I thought I should share it with you all. Who isn’t curious to see how someone can’t spend money!

This week we got to work with a very successful social media called Twitter. As everyone already knows, Twitter is a site where people can tweet their thoughts, things they like, dislike, the news etc. They can follow people and get followers as well as be updated with their favorite celebrities and much more. Before this class and this week’s activity I did not even know how to use Twitter. In fact this week was the first time I ever opened Twitter, let alone having an account. For some reason I don’t like having a lot of accounts so the only social media I ever had before this class was Facebook. Now look at me I have a Twitter account, Feedly and much more.

As I explored Twitter, I could see people who were interested in the same things as me and I could see what the world was up to. People tweet the most random stuff. I learned so many new things while exploring on Twitter. I learned how to tweet, use hashtags and I learned how this tool could be an essential part to my learning. When I was on my home page, it showed me tweets of a lot of interesting things and I feel that if I use this enough I will be able to learn and connect with all sorts of people.

As a learning tool, Twitter could help me keep to date with news, and students with the same interests and goals. I could also share interesting posts and tweets that help reach my goals because every new thing I learn will enhance my knowledge. I would use this tool in my PLE and I would put it under connect because this is a great tool to connect and network with people. Twitter fits into another thing we learned this week Personal LearningNetwork (PLN). This basically connects us with RSS, which gives us access to articles, websites and etc.

Twitter is a good contributor to becoming a digital citizen and providing knowledge because it allows me to connect with different people around the world. By being connected to everyone gives me the accesses to learn different things. Before this class I would have never thought of using Twitter, but after browsing around, I am excited to try it out some more and see how it adds to my learning skills.

Hope you enjoyed my blog this week!

Nisha Nayyar