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      Through your educational and professional career, there are many different types of writing styles that will be used. One of these are the American Psychological Association, also known as APA. This type of styles are used in the social sciences, such as psychology, social work, health science, and political science. This style is very research based writing and when it was written. The "when" is important looking into the writing, due to the evolving and changing updates. These citations are important to ensure your writings follow a guideline format and avoiding plagiarism.       The overall guidelines for APA is typing in a 12 point typeface, double spaced, one inch margin, and the running head on the top left and page number on the top right of each page. The basic format for a APA paper is a title page, abstract, body, and references. The title page is composed of the running head and page number on top, with the title of the work in the middle, and the bottom ca

      Chapter 1: Curation Tools from Untangling the Web , by Stephen Dembo and Adam Bellow,  examines the three best curation sites available to educators. Curation is the means to organize one's own resources, while having some benefit to others in the process. With these sites, determining which is right for you is depending on the content you want to save, how you want to share and with whom you want to share it. Provided by Google        Symbaloo is a prefect tool for dashboard and simplicity. The main goal is to provide a compact layout of icons to provide one click access to your sites. The interface within this is called webmix. Webmix is comprised of sixty tiles laid out in a 10 by 6 grid, where you can place your favorite website assigned to a tile. There are many different ways of embedding the tile to a website, such as RSS. Then the ability of customizing each tiles look to create a unique webmixes. Once the initial setup is finished, there is little upkeep and

      With every statement, leaves a mark. This is true in the digital realm, as well. The way of expressing ourselves is can be seen on many platforms and seen instantaneously. This instantaneous type of expression sometimes clouds our minds to stop and self reflect on the content we are sharing with the world. Chapter 3: 'Digital is Different' from the book, " lol...OMG! ," by Matt Ivester, explores the deeper meaning of how our digital history has advanced. Ivester gave examples of pages stored and possibly found within the Way Back Machine . This is a "digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts... [containing various] snapshots of websites at different points in time(Ivester 2011)." The web is becoming increasingly less expensive to produce; Google, email providers, and iCloud. This content is recorded and never completely forgotten. Through our constant connection with the internet, we have created an easy way to allow ourselves to b

      At least once a day, we have unanswered questions. We have the ability to search any questions within the palm of our hands and the tips of our fingers.  One of the most well known and used researched engine is Google . The basics guidelines of using Google is typing an subject, phrase, or question within the search bar, then it will bring the most relevant sequentially. There are other tools within Google that some might not be aware of them. During class we explored the different tools within Google.       The first we went over was Google Scholar.  Google Scholar is the modern student's best tool. It searches peer reviewed journals, articles, and book publications within the topic. You are able to modify the parameters for publication dates and types of articles. This is essential while undergoing research for papers and topics. This leads to the Google Drive.       Google Drive has many different tools that are equivalent to Microsoft Office, such as Word, Excel, and Po