Storyboards

The first 3 are from storyboard that, the 4th one is from Pixton, and the last one is from PicLit.

 This is when I went to pick up the first car I bought

I love taking cruises 

 This is me bored out of my mind social distancing

 This is when I was 5 and visited my Uncles farm for the first time

This is a quote I like from Ferris Bullers Day Off and is one that I try to live by.

Web Tool Smack down

For my web tool, I chose Skype because it is a great app that allows for easy and simple communication with other people. Skype has multiple different ways to communicate with people from anywhere around the world at any time. Most of these features are free, but there is one service that they offer that is a monthly subscription. You can create meetings with as many people as you want in just 3 simple steps. All you have to do is click the start meeting button, click share invite, and select the people you want in the video call and you are done. Skype makes it as simple and easy as possible when it comes to communicating with others. Furthermore, you can do the chat feature you can have a group chat or just message individual people where you can go over things that need to be done or just to communicate through in a less formal structure like email. The last feature that they offer is the monthly subscription to obtain a phone number through skype where they can receive and make called to any cell phone or landline anywhere in the world.

All of these features will be extremely useful in my career as a manager because as a manager you must be able to communicate clearly and quickly in order to complete the task at hand. The meeting video chat is useful since it allows you to conference with people who may work in different buildings around the world. A reason for doing something like this would be if you are working on a project together and you need to communicate your research and other findings to one another in order to complete the project. The same goes for the chat feature whether it is a group chat or and individual chat it allows the managers to quickly communicate with the various members of their team and share information that is relevant to the project. Communication is key in management and the quicker and easier one is able to communicate the better the business will be since they will be able to get more done. Lastly, the paid subscription is extremely useful because if I have to travel a lot for my future career if I have to visit other teams in offices around the world them obtaining a phone number through skype to make and receive calls from anyone is great. If you were to purchase an international phone plan from your provider it would be extremely expensive, but skype offers it for a low monthly rate. This would allow me to stay in touch with my home team while I travel to these other teams to ensure everything is being done correctly to complete the project.

The Connected Educator Chapter 4 Summary

Chapter 4 of Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall's The Connecter Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age discusses the importance of working together, forming trusts and transparency with one another in order to foster a better relationship while working together to reach the overall goal. There are many aspects that they touch on in order to establish the deep relationship that they talk about. Trust and transparency were some of the big ones that they discussed. Obviously, when working with another person on a project you have to trust them otherwise problems between each person could arise since you do not trust them. Transparency goes hand in hand with trust because if you do not trust the person you are working with then you will not be transparent with them when it comes to relaying information regarding the project to them. Another factor that they cover is storming. Storming is when people begin to disagree and get frustrated with the time it takes to learn something new. "...educators are not told that this is a normal part of the connected learning community growth process, they give up prematurely, assuming this is one more professional development strategy that does not work" (Nusbaum-Beach and Hall 67). These are some of the most crucial aspects that are part of building a collaborative culture.

The use of trust and transparency along with other aspects that Nussbaum-Beach and Hall describe would benefit me in my future career as a manager because as a manager I need to be able to trust the people that are a part of my team. If we are working on a project I need to know that I can count on them to get the work done on their own and I do not have to be that guy that has to micro-manage people. Transparency is the same thing, I need to be transparent with my team when issues arise and they also have to be transparent with me if they have any concerns or issues in order to ensure that everyone on the team can foster the deep relationship that Nussbaum-Beach and Hall describe. This deep relationship will benefit the team and will be the reason that everyone will work well together and no one would have to micro-manage or have issues with another person on the team.


"Building a Collaborative Culture." The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age, by Seryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall, Solution Tree Press, 2012, pp. 57-71.