Month: April 2021

Reflect on your experience in the course, your development of PLN, your use of social media platforms and networked publics. Note any changes in your perspective of social media in professional settings and personal use. Submit a closing blog post about your experience and consider how you can pivot your PLN into your next steps.

In this term, I learned the concept of Personal Learning Network, and its development through the course. Jesse encourages us to widely use Mattermost to share our opinion in terms of the weekly blog topic. Some students suggest using Twitter to expand vision, and knowledge, where hashtag is an effective tool to connect hot topics and personal content. Via the hashtag, people will explore other’s oversight and their experience; thus, benefiting learning and new knowledge gaining. We created the PLN chart in the previous week to understand professional and personal learning tool differences, and we consistently update our chart to include more technology tools to broaden our knowledge. Youtube is widely accepted by students to accept knowledge online. Messenger is the most frequently used communication tool in university as it provides a convenient way for people to chat and interact. I started to focus on Youtube videos to explore the world. Our professor, Jesse Miller, uploaded a weekly video on Youtube as well. He used interviews to connect guest topics with our weekly learning objectives, which provide a fantastic way to spread knowledge. In the future, I will continuously search for useful technology tools to expand my PLN by connecting more people together to share each thoughts and utilizing the advantage of technology to promote better learning ways.

Consider how you can use the PLN interactions of this course to further your digital identity post-term. What does it mean to have a digital identity in your industry of choice and can your current PLN be used to help professional development post-course? Additionally, as you progress through the steps of your career, can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities?

Starting to use a Personal Learning Network indicates an individual is developing own digital identity through exploring new knowledge and connecting with other people. I will continuously use PLN interactions in my post-term for gaining more knowledge and opinions from different people and aspects. People with various gender, sex, social experience, living enviornment, relationship will directly lead to a differ value of thing. It’s advantageous to view perspectives from different regions. Meanwhile, obtaining a digital identity in the industry can help people recognize who you are. What you post online and share with the public will build a unique digital identity. It not only describes personal information including name, gender, age, but also it contains personal interest through each clicking on the site and topic. Professional development post-course also need PLN to build and process, as students use social media to recognize and communicate with each other in the course. It is critical to understand then utilize professional PLN. My current professional PLN should always be updated to fully match my future course. This is a process which needs to be frequently altered and updated