EME 6414 - Web 2.0

 A week's break from blogging was amazing! I learned a few things from my social media break.  1. I could never handle being an influencer.  2. I cannot wait for grad school to be over (I enjoy my free nights after a long day of working and caring for kids to just do what I wanna do) 3. I don't think I like blogging very much 😬 (I know I said it out loud)  Here we are, ready to rock and roll! Or so I'm trying to get my mind back into the swing. I'm already late in my usual schedule of posting my first post on Mondays.  Today I checked out the tools for this week and I thought Trello was pretty neat! I like that it's basically a digital list maker. I find myself creating so many lists and then losing track of my list or having to re-write my list as they change from day to day or even week to week. I also liked the idea that I can share my board with others. It got me thinking, that I could create a board that both my director and I can see. This would help wit...

Wow what a week! I have no idea how influencers or anyone who uses social media on the daily to create curated content does it. I just had to post once a day and was struggling. Between working full time, single parenting it this week while my husband was away for a fishing trip, to both my kiddos getting sick… I just yeah… I have no idea how people do it. Let’s just say I won’t be quitting my day job anytime soon to take to social media.  I also realized how curated content works. Just after my first post on Instagram two people thought I was getting hacked 😅 I added a disclaimer on my second post. There wasn’t much activity, but I did have someone say they loved OneDrive as well. So that was cool. I think because what I was posting wasn’t my usual content. There wasn’t much traction on my posts. I think it’s for sure because I was posting to the right crowd. I will say it was pretty crazy how one reel on my daughter got 4,730 views. Which I don’t know how that makes me feel? Kin...

 I've been struggling with the term Networked Knowlege . Thanks to my classmate's blog posts. I've been able to grasp the concept now. This means let's blog about a group.  One of my favorite social network group that helped me with the beginning stages of motherhood was the Taking Cara Babies Support Group on Facebook. My first born, Margot struggled with sleep. The first three months were rough. I think I had the worst mixture of things happening all at once. I was in the midst of the pandemic and was a new mother. I had no idea what I was doing. I remember nights, when we would just sleep with the lights on, or my husband, would sleep with Margot on the mamaroo full blast. She has to be in constant motion in order for her to sleep.  I came across Taking Cara Babies and it's like there was light at the end of the tunnel. I could feel hope that I would actually be able to finally get some sleep and Margot would as well.  I looked through the advice given on the Fac...

For the past few weeks, I have been working on my internship project. Dr. Dennen's manuscript on  Instructional Design and Development for Social Media Lessons came in at a perfect time!  This past week we were asked to share out skills that we have been implementing. I'm trying hard to not just throw lessons together but to use the ADDIE method as my guide those the design and implementation process. I also am using Nearpod, which helps educators make any lesson interactive whether in the classroom or virtual. Teachers can create interactive presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, and more.  As I was reading the manuscript I came across Dennen and Hoa's adaptation of MCOPE Framework for mobile learning. I thought, "Yes, this is the perfect skill I can use for my internship project."  I basically took the questions I should ask myself and replaced the word 'social media' with 'Nearpod'.  • Does 'Nearpod...

Reflection 6/19/2022 This week I worked on my knowledge-sharing/tracking. It took me a bit to figure out what I wanted to share and where. I figured why not use one of my favorite apps, which is Pinterest. I use Pinterest to look up lessons to share with my students and why not use it to share my lessons! I created a whole mentoring infrastructure for my program on Nearpod. I changed my Pinterest account to a business account and started to upload my lessons. This is where it got tricky! I couldn't share all the slides on a pin. What I figured out was adding the main photo title and using a link from Nearpod that I could share on the pin which allowed users to get over to the Nearpod.  Then it was the waiting game! I saw classmates liking the tweet I shared about my Pinterest board. I had a few classmates also tell me they were excited to check it out. Three days passed and it was showing there were no interactions with the lessons. I was bummed! I just checked it today and I'm...

 Social media in the classroom sounds great in theory, but I'm not sure if it's great. Personally, I haven't had success with it. This week I read, "Towards an understanding of social media use in the classroom: a literature review" by Antonie Van Den Beemt, Marieke Thurlings, and Myrthe Willems. The first line resonated with me. "Many teachers appear to struggle with the tension between possible pedagogical use and the tempting distraction of this technology."(Van Den Beemt et al., 2019) I struggle with the use because I see firsthand students being distracted by technology. Ever since COVID-19 students now use laptops in a class all the time. I'll walk around and see students off task. It's so hard when you have the internet at your fingertips.  I think it has to do with the student's maturity level. For example, in this class, we are using social media in all sorts of ways. I don't find myself getting distracted, but if I tried this cl...

 I was checking out the tools for this week. Future Me really stood out. I find it hard to read what my past self has written. I always cringe at my Facebook memories when they pop up. I just think... "Wow why did I write that? 😬" Even though I don't like looking back at my Facebook memories, I thought I'd give the Future Me letter writing a chance and do some reflection. My firstborn is turning TWO this weekend! All I can think about is planning her birthday party. I figured this would be a good time to reflect on how the past two years have felt having Margot in my life. I'm sure it will be sweet when I receive the letter when she turns 3.  I think I'll use this as a writing activity for my seniors next school year. I think it would be fun for them to receive a letter from their past self, especially because you can set the letter to the date of your choosing and 5 years would bring them right before they apply to medical school. It would be very motivation...