Week 7 Practicing Digital Literacy

I used Todaysmeet to creat an online meeting room in order to “meet” with and “talk” to my learning partner this week. 

I found TodaysMeet is a very easy tool to use. A private Chat Room is set up for the group by typing in a chat room name, a link will be created and all the group members can join the conversation with the link given. Linda and I were able to communicate in real time and also leave messages to each other whenever we want to. We had a nice chat and this is how we started to develop our course project. 

TodaysMeet is very similar to the Chat Room that in our Brock Isaak home page, however, I think it is always nice to have another option because I can use TodaysMeet  to "meet"people from work, create a "family room" and "chat" with friends that are outside the school, or even anyone around the world.

My other rewarding learning experience this week is to explore Google Docs, the free web-based word processor and spreadsheet.

Google drive screen shot, (cc) kawai Sabarillo, 2013

Google Docs allows user create and share online, it is a great collaborative tools.

Google Docs is not a new tools to me, although I knew I needed to learn much more so I can apply it to my class project. The activities and discussion that are related to Google Docs this week has brought me to a new learning level. My knowledge of technology and education development has increased more than I could have expected.

I especially like the offline edit function I explore on Google Docs, Google have launched offline mode for Google Docs for about two years, it benefits users who are always on the go and without a connection. As you enable the offline function, you can still view and edit the shared documents, save change and update when you reconnect.

I will be out of internet connection for 3 days, and the offline edit is going to make a different for me because I can still view and edit the file on Google Docs that I share with my learning partner.

If I have to update my PLE this week, both TodaysMeet and Google Docs will be add to the Processing category. TodaysMeet helps put all group members together which is a great discussion tool, on the other hand, Google Docs is an effective platform for people to processor the same file, make everything up-to-date, as long as you are part of the group, you’ll never miss a thing and I can learn from my group anytime, anywhere.

These collaborative tools reinvented my learning style and I would say the benefits are exponential.