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Well if you have access to the internet, you have seen by now the most recent supreme court ruling regarding affirmative action. Without engaging in a political back and forth, it had me thinking about another topic that I wanted to share in my blog journal word vomit safe zone.  Where do we get out news? I have been working from home this week due to some construction (bleh), but because of that, I have had the opportunity to have the news on in the background. So, today, I actually received the news from the news source on live TV. However, I also got a text from my partner and a ping through a social media site, all almost simultaneously. This brings about my question of how are we all getting the news and how quickly. Through multiple different ways of retrieval and the speed of all things in the Web 2.0 universe this news story in particular was probably shared in record speed.  Given that todays news came from the Supreme Court, I thought I would look and try to find som...

Double blog post day, but I am IN IT!  One of the aspects I love most about this class are all of the tools we are introduced to. Whether we use them or not, we become aware of them and have an opportunity to see how they would work for us whether scholarly or professionally. If you follow my blogs at all, you would have seen last week where I became familiar with MindMeister... YOU GUYS... I love this tool and it is now saving me in a work project.  I work in Student Conduct and Community Standards and we have a pretty in depth process for all of our resolution options. We are trying to create a visual that would assist with the general functionality of all applicable processes. Ding ding ding... enter from stage left MindMeister (clap clap clap).  I have been working all morning on creating the visual and I have to say, I would have never known about this tool if not for this course. Now, I could have potentially found in through some lengthy Google searches, but what i...

Since I have now started to visual these blogs as my classroom journal - I thought what better topic to blog about then my process of planning and thinking about my knowledge sharing and tracking assignment. When thinking about two popular social media tools, I thought this would be a great opportunity to tie social media tools that I use personally to this project, that way I am not tracking added social media sites/tools which could possibly lead to burnout.  With this in mind, I have been cognizant about recognizing which two social media sites I spend the most time on during my days and which two would be able to provide the most content for the project. Thanks to our handy dandy iphone's, it shows that my top two screentime social media site usage comes from Instagram and Facebook - to be honest I was shocked it wasn't TikTok #smallvictories Does this mean I will be using those two, we will see, but this at least allows me to start mapping out if those two sites will provi...

I know we can have many discussions on how we are influenced, impacted, engage with, or use Web 2.0 platforms, specifically social media - but this weeks Ocean Gate crisis could be a case study.  I want to preface by saying, I am not here to say what is right or wrong/good or bad, I am just hear to pose the discussion and view of the way in which the world started to participate in the no pun intended downfall of this submarine.  Since the news broke on the tourist submarine vessel not being back, social media sites erupted. From creating Twitter handles to track the oxygen ( @Titanicsub ) to TikTok videos highlighting top tweets making fun of the crew trapped inside (I will not include that, we have all seen it), it was astonishing the amount of information. This draws on my thoughts for this blog and I would be interested for anyone who wanted to contribute:  Objectively - does it show connectedness that so many people around the world can engage in conversation around...

I am currently wrapping up my coursework for my PhD program and just found out I passed me preliminary examination (cue the party) so I am fully in the thick of it. I realized this week that while I am coding qualitative data through the online software Nvivo, I have been utilizing the tool of mind mapping to layout my data and potential analysis. Then I was like wait, wait, one of this weeks tools is Mind Meister, which is a way to map out projects.  Look at that connection. Who would have thought that week six would bring similar tools in different contexts to play for me. While I am utilizing them in different ways, this was a prime example of all of the different resources we have in the 2.0 metaverse. For funsies, I decided I would create a mind map using Mind Meister that would show you what I am working on for my research through NVivo - tying it all together if you will.  Enjoy my mind map on conceptualizing the three core things that contribute to leadership identity ...

Hello! Another week and another blogging adventure.  This week while going through our readings, I saw we had a bonus opportunity to find a relevant article for this week and to share it with our classmates - so I thought this would be a great platform to do so, because if you follow my blogs at all, you know I am constantly sharing articles here! The article is  How Social Media is Reshaping Today’s Education System   and below is my brief takeaways from it but would love to hear your thoughts too if you want to share! This article discusses the impact of social media on the education system. It highlights not only the effects of social media, but breaks down how it enables information sharing, community-building, and positive activities among students. Overall, this article highlights how the integration of social media in education is seen as a positive change and has the potential to transform the learning experience for all students.

The continual conversation in our course and in blogs, tweets, etc. is all around what platforms are we using. With the multitude of different social media networks and professional development platforms, consistently we are reminded that the options for online communities are endless. With the endlessness that exists, each day I seem to learn about something new, an online tool that could be useful, or an entirely different way to connect through Web 2.0.  With a new approach of trying not to be overwhelmed, I am starting to look at what I want to use, can use, or is anything worth the attention and implementation for my needs. I get so used to using and engaging in online communities that I am comfortable with using, that change in online communities can sometimes be daunting. Maybe it is the getting used to phase, or the how will this fit in to what I am already using, but I feel as though I do not take on engagement in more online communities, and if  I do, it takes me a w...