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September 28, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Networking using social media means to build your professional contacts with other individuals to a point where you can exchange information. FutureLearn. (n.d.) puts forth that In an era where jobs are disappearing and appearing to technological advances, building a strong network of people can be very beneficial to securing your job stability through your working career (para. 7).

Kamakshi, R., et al (2012) discusses the three stages of networking are building, maintaining, and activating. The first stage is to simply start building you network, that means making a LinkedIn account or a social media account for yourself or business, and start interacting with people you think might be beneficial to know and you can learn off.  The second stage is to maintain the connections you have made through regularly engaging with your networks and learning tools, and to continue to build your network. The final stage of activating means to keep doing this process (seen in diagram in article). During the process, all connections matter, the stronger connections allow for collaboration on knowledge collection, and the weak connections are sources for new knowledge information and ideas (para. 4). The motivation to participate in networked publics comes from the ability to make yourself better off. The more connections you make and knowledge you gather increases your opportunities to set yourself up for success.

Boyd, D. (2012) says there are privacy risks that come with public communication (p. 348). Computer applications can give you more control over your data, but it can also upload your data for others to possibly view. Consent and other legal issues can arise when dealing with data of yourself, not knowing you are also uploading another person’s information (p. 348). This is a hard thing to control at times because the algorithm social applications use can make connections without you realizing (p. 348). Thinking about what you upload before you do it is the best way to keep your privacy safe while networking.

 

References

FutureLearn. (n.d.). What is a Personal Learning Network (PLN)? Retrieved September 30, 2020, from https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-network-age/0/steps/24644

Kamakshi, R., Desirée, B., Jan, B., and Peter, S. (2012) Understanding personal learning networks: Their structure, content and the networking skills needed to optimally use them Retrieved September 30, 2020, from https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/3559/3131
doi:10.5210/fm.v17i1.3559

Boyd, D. (2012). Networked Privacy. Retrieved September 30, 2020, from https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/networked

Introduction

September 17, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Hello everyone, I’m Camus.

I am a 21-year-old stallion born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. My family decided to abandon me years ago, and move down to Australia to live a better life in my absence. Just kidding, it’s not that harsh but it sucked not seeing them during the COVID-19 lock down.

My native language is English, even though my spelling says otherwise at times.

I am a 4th year Economics major specialized in finance if anyone wants to talk stonks. During the term, I’ll be located in the beautiful province of British Columbia living in the capital city of Victoria. I’ve lived in Victoria for 3 years now and still haven’t purchased a pair of Blundstones.

My favourite academic subject is Microeconomics, which happens to be the class that first introduced me to my second favourite subject that is game theory. My hobbies include flexing in mirrors and solving Rubik’s cubes (haven’t solved one yet but I swear I’m close). This past year I took a trip driving across Canada with some friends checking out all the local spots on the way. Unfortunately, we only made it to Saskatchewan where nothing exists but wheat and sky.

Cheers to a good semester to come.

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Welcome and Introduction

May 2, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Before proceeding with this first blog post, we expect you to consider your privacy preferences carefully and that you have considered the following options:

  1. Do you want to be online vs. offline?
  2. Do you want to use your name (or part thereof) vs. a pseudonym (e.g., West Coast Teacher)?
  3. 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)
  4. 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 blog’s 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.  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:

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Test Social Media Post

May 2, 2020 / / 0 Comments

This post  will appear in a few places:

  1. in the blog feed on the front of your website
  2. 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.
  3. 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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