Can your PLN be used to help professional development post-course?
PLN can definitely be used to help with professional development post-course. For example, PLN can provide the access to resources such as articles, blogs, and videos. what’s more, PLN is a good way to start a business and the personal learning network can help the businesses to build a good reputation and generate more customers.
Can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities?
I think there are some very specific platforms for building a professional PLN such as Linkedin. But recently TikTok has become a very popular platform, and lots of businesses joined the platform. Businesses use this platform to post short videos like instructions for their products, which help to interact with their customers.
The ability to use critical thinking skills to consider the perspectives, motives, and biases within the information we see and hear (notsofastcampaign, n.d.).
Why is it important?
Because even some most trustworthy sources can be wrong sometimes. Skills like critical thinking and distinguishing information can help us to pick the information that is useful to us.
Social media platforms engage in communications in various ways including direct messaging, posts, shares, and comments.
How does social media challenge communications?
Although social media platforms provide convenience in communication, on the other hand, the downside of social media like misinformation and fake news can quickly spread out and become an issue.
In conclusion, social media can provide a platform for communication and engagement among individuals, but we should also be responsible when we present on social media.
How would you create a PLN prior to engaging in a social media campaign on a topic of your choice?Ā Consider how you would introduce yourself to others consider how you would engage in initial conversation to generate interest in your campaign professionally.
Like every company that wants to create a marketing campaign, they will set a group of target customers. When we create a PLN, finding the target audience is the first step. Depending on different needs, we can choose different social media platforms. For example, if we are creating a hobby group, we can pick Facebook as the platform. To generate interest in my campaign, I will first set the group rules. This can avoid some unnecessary chaos in the future chat. Then I will post some pictures and comments to bring everyone’s interest up so that everyone can feel relaxed and free to communicate.
Which social media platforms are beneficial in education?
It’s important to note that social media platforms should be used responsibly and follow privacy and security policies. There are several social media platforms that can be beneficial for education.
YouTube: A vast video library that provides access to educational content from universities, educational institutions, and experts in various fields.
Google: Gmail can be a tool to reach our instructors and get help from. Google doc is a way that team working with our classmates to finish a group project.
When working with the vulnerable sector, how does social media fit into professionalism and regulations?
When working with the vulnerable sector, social media use can raise a number of professional and regulatory concerns, particularly with regard to privacy. Regularly monitor and evaluate our social media presence to ensure that it fits with our professional goals.
Personal Digital Identity vs Professional Digital Identity
What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network?
For professional networking perspective, LinkedIn, Zoom, and Google are the most popular platforms. These digital platforms really help students to develop professional networks.
What could the student consider in expanding their professional learning network?
I think as a student, we need to consider privacy and security when we’re expanding our professional learning network. Functionality is also an important point when we develop our professional learning network.
Create by: Steven Luo
When in Visitor mode, we use something on the Internet without leaving any social trace behind. We use something as a tool to accomplish a task, and when the task is done, we put the tool away.
Visitor
Searching for information
Reading information
Watching videos
Online shopping
āLurkingā
Finding directions
When in Resident mode, our goal is social presence and connecting with others. In this mode, we leave persistent social traces behind.
Resident
Creating social media content
Joining discussions
Commenting on posts
Citation:
Using the Digital Visitors and Residents App. experimental worldcat org. (n.d.). Retrieved February 4, 2023, from http://experimental.worldcat.org/vandrmapping/signIn
Digital identity is a person’s footprint online including everything he/she posts and shares. In my opinion, digital identity can be separated into 2 sections: private and public. Private identity can be used for family contact, and public identity can be used in working careers.
A personal approach is that people connect with family, friends, or some groups that share topics they are interested in. A professional approach allows people to connect and collaborate with their colleagues in their work or study, or use social media like Linkedin for job searching. Indian government developed a digital id using biometric deduplication, and it allows people to open a bank account, get a mobile connection, and check in for a flight/hotel (Davos, 2019).
Digital wallets like Paypal and Apple Pay have several benefits. For example, during the covid-19, a digital wallet can reduce personal contact by tapping the machine with your cellphone. What’s more, with a piece of complete personal information attached to digital wallets, it’s easier to track down online crimes like blackmail, fraud, and scam.
Davos.āPress Conference The Value of Digital Identity for the Global Economy and Society.ā uploaded by World Economic Forum, 5 Feb. 2019,Ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-V7yxrOmw
What does it mean to network using social media? How are we motivated to participate in networked publics? What are the risks & rewards of public communications? 1 To network using social media means that we connect with our friends, families, and colleagues on an online platform. Even strangers that share similar hobbies and values can be connected by using social media. 2 Network publics definitely help people that are too shy to talk in real life. It provides a real-time, but not face-to-face communication environment. For example, I joined a Facebook car club a few years ago, I met people that shared the same hobbies as me. We discuss cars in the group and eventually, we had some offline events. 3 The risk in online environment is that it’s a open environment that everyone is able to talk. It’s easy to get fraud and personal information explode on the internet while the other person sitting in front of a computer from the other side of world. On the other hand, public communication provides a great path to learn some new knowledge. The information is easier to be reached than before, and most of the time it’s free.
Before proceeding with this first blog post, we expect you to consider your privacy preferences carefully and that you have considered the following options:
Do you want to be online vs. offline?
Do you want to use your name (or part thereof) vs. a pseudonym (e.g., West Coast Teacher)?
Do you want to have your blog public vs. private? (Note, you can set individual blog posts private or password protected or have an entire blog set to private)
Have you considered whether you are posting within or outside of Canada? This blog on opened.ca is hosted within Canada. That said, any public blog posts can have its content aggregated/curated onto social networks outside of Canada.
First tasks you might explore with your new blog:
Go into its admin panel found by adding /wp-admin at the end of your blogās URL
Add new category or tags to organize your blog posts – found under “Posts” (but do not remove the pre-existing “edci338” category).
See if your blog posts are appearing on the course website (you must have the the edci338 category assigned to a post first and have provided your instructor with your blog URL)
Add pages, if you like.
Include hyperlinks in your posts (select text and click on the link icon in the post toolbar)
Embed images or set featured images and embed video in blog posts and pages (can be your own media or that found on the internet, but consider free or creative commons licensed works). To embed a YouTube video, simply paste the URL on its own line.
Under Dashboard/Appearance,
Select your preferred website theme and customize to your preferences (New title, new header image, etc.)
Customize menus & navigation
Use widgets to customize blog content and features
Delete this starter post (or switch it to draft status if you want to keep it for reference)
Do consider creating categories for each course that you take should you wish to document your learning (or from professional learning activities outside of formal courses). Keep note, however, that you may wish to rename the label of the course category in menus (e.g., as we did where it shows “Social Media & PL” as the label for the “edci338” category menu.Ā This will enable readers not familiar with university course numbers to understand what to expect in the contents.
Lastly, as always, be aware of the FIPPA as it relates to privacy and share only those names/images that you have consent to use or are otherwise public figures. When in doubt, ask us.
Please also review the resources from our course website for getting started with blogging:
in the Learning Design menu on your website. This is because we have applied the “edci338” category to this post and the menu item “Social Media & Personalized Learning” has been created from the category “edci338.” For every post you make for this course, please assign the “edci338” category to it. You are welcome to use this blog for your personal hobbies or for other courses, in which case, you could create additional menu items and categories for them.
if you give permission, your posts categorized “edci338” will be aggregated onto the Blog Feed on the EDCI 338 Course Website.
Feel free to delete this post once you understand this. If you have any questions, please reach out to your instructor.
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