Time to Unify
Being on the same page as coworkers, teammates, or even families can never be a bad thing. Coming together and blending is also good for social media sites and to collaborate. This week we learned a variety of different apps and programs that integrate with one another to make our lives a little easier.
This week was filled with many different applications and programs to help make integrating on the web a little easier. On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of meeting Scott Rocco, Superintendent and Adjunct Professor at The College of New Jersey. He is also the founder of #Satchat and an instructor at NJEXCEL. The first program Rocco showed us is called Doodle. Need to coordinate meetings with coworkers? Or even doing a group project? Then is perfect for you! Doodle is very simple to use too. You schedule an event, give title for specific event, include emails, pick separate times, then do a basic poll to see what time and day works for everyone else. It will send an invite to everyone's email, and it will let you know when everyone is available. Very low-tech and easy to use!
Next up, is a screenshot sharing program. Jing. You can capture your whole desktop or just a piece of it. You can change colors, can draw on it, edit it, or even make a video narrating it. You can also share, save, copy, or delete it. This is a handy feature to show demonstrations.
Furthermore, Rocco showed us an awesome brainstorming tool; Padlet. This is a great program to use to create and collaborate. You can just create a board then send out the link to it, and anyone with the link can post anything on the board. That simple.
Following, Rocco displayed how to use Buffer. Are you too busy throughout the day to keep up with your personal learning networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn? This is a great device to use to schedule your posts throughout the day or weeks. Therefore, you're not posting a crazy amount of tweets all at once because it's the only time you really get to your phone. Now, you can stage your tweets so they are spread out and followers don't get bombarded with your posts.
Lastly, Rocco had demonstrated how to use the Pocket App. This is great to save any articles or links that you want to go back and read later. You just click and it will add to your pocket. Also, once it's saved in your pocket, you do not need internet to refer back to it. My class is very appreciative for the great programs and applications that Scott Rocco showed us! All of them are very useful for everyday living!
Professor Calderwood showed us some incredibly useful apps and programs as well. The first one that is a convenient app is called IFTTT; which stands for if then, then that. This tool is used to integrate social media sites together.
Following that, we learned about PieThis. It's is almost like an instant messaging site for specific groups or topics; a very good collaborative tool to use. Subsequently, we were also taught how to use Compfight. This is a search engine you can use to freely download high-resolution images, clip art, and professional photos. This is a great site for posters, blogs, or portfolios that you need images on. Succeeding, there is TChat, which is a good resource to use if you are trying to follow specific hash tags or compose a tweet right there. You can view twitter chats during the live feed. You can reply, re-tweet, and hide re-tweets from other users. Next up, we have Swayy, which is similar to Zite. In case you're not sure on what either of those do, they are apps to find articles based on what you're interests entail. These are great ways to share articles to your personal learning network in order to inform followers or build connections based off interests. 
Also, there are a couple good visual tools we learned about. Piktochart is an easy way to create an info-graphic which is good to present because its easier for the audience to understand. Canva is a site to create professional-looking posters, graphs, and designs. Easy as drag and drop! You can also collaborate with others.
Then, Professor Calderwood went on to show us Storify, which is a good way to archive tweets from Twitter chats and you're able to embed them into a blog. Following that one was TagBoard. Simply typing in a hash-tag can pull up photos from all Instagram and Twitter. They even sometimes use this site for the Jumbo-tron during sporting events.
Finally, we learned about Paperli. This is your own personal online newspaper. It pushes out specific content based on what you choose. All you do is type in specific people, topics, or hash-tags and it will filter in your newspaper. You can also set it to notify your followers daily, weekly, or twice a day.
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