Blog Post #11

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.