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Video Link ESPN and StreamEast are two websites known for giving viewers the ability to watch any sporting event they want. ESPN is widely known, streaming on live TV and incorporated into a website/ app, ESPN is accessible anywhere. This safe and easy website is great to use to get news from around any sports league or even watch the games live. On the other hand, StreamEast is a website found only on a web browser. StreamEast is free, but the consequences it provides may be detrimental. With the possibility of malware and other viruses, this website is dangerous to use, but if the ads are ignored correctly, any game is accessible for free on your phone. 

Chapter Four talks about the importance of building a collaborative culture. Connecting with others is important to grow and learn more. Nowadays, connecting with others is more important than ever. With these collaborations, it is also important to get people from other cultures and others that have different views than you. Though you may disagree, it is still important to get different views to think about all possibilities. "Changing values, norms, and beliefs may be necessary in order to support connected learning" (Nussbaum-Beach and Hall 58).   Later in the chapter, it reiterates establishing trust and collegiality in your bubble. Building trust is important to feel more comfortable and open with your new collaborative group. "In collegial relationships, connected educators share ideas and challenge each other's thinking" (Nussbaum-Beach and Hall 63). Reflecting on each other's thoughts and problem-solving is important to build trust and growing toget...

  Skype Video Skype is an app that is used to face time and connects with other people through video chat or through text message. Skype is very easy to use and has several uses. What's great about Skype is that you can use it as a way to call people's cell phone numbers. You don't need to accept friend requests to call people. If in need of food or have an emergency, you can use Skype to call whoever is needed. Skype has adapted to many new changes in the app. Skype can be downloaded on phones, laptops, and tablets, through Alexa and on Xbox. With all these different ways to connect to people, it widens the possibilities of who you would like to call or text. Skype also has many cool features like screen recording, recording the call, and many features while in a call like a raise your hand option. Skype can be used for business calls, or just as a way to connect with friends. 

     Chapter 5 in The Connected Educator talks about how important it is to use different tools to support connected learning. There are many tools used to help connect with others. Early in the chapter, it brings up tools for documenting and archiving learning. These are important because it allows the user to track what they have found on the internet. The Three ways to track new information are social bookmarking, Delicious, and Diigo. Social Bookmarking is great to use because it keeps all the information you found organized. Delicious is a website that is capable of finding tags to find other web pages similar to what the user is looking up. Diigo is also a website that is similar to Delicious. Diigo is more enhanced than delicious, giving the user the ability to annotate, use sticky notes, or highlight key information right on the webpage they are on. These are important sources to utilize when trying to keep track of all the websites and information you found....

 The main idea in Chapter 6 of The Connected Educator is personal learning networks. These networks help people obtain more knowledge through other people. This can also be seen as connections or relationships. With these connections with other people, these communities grow and help people learn and become leaders. "[Personal learning Networks] consist of streams of people, information, expertise, learning objects, and images that are of interest to you" (Nussbaum-Beach and Hall 92). The benefit of having a personal learning network is the ability to learn from other people that share a similar goal and gather knowledge and ideas from them. From there, you can pass on that newly learned knowledge or just continue to learn from others; that's what makes learning communities so great.  Finding the right community is also important to note when trying to find a personal learning network. Depending on who you follow can change the whole focus of your personal network. To sta...