For the past decade or so I’ve been using an online platform called Ultimate Guitar by Muse Group that has official and community-made chords for songs. The official chords and many other features are behind a paywall, but all of the community-created song chords are free for anyone to use. Having used this site for…
Platform Choice & Justification The social learning platform Reddit has been widely considered a part of the internet that people can go to for learning, finding community, and expressing themselves and their opinions. Reddit is open for browsing by anyone, as long as you have the technology and the internet; to interact with and post…
Default Settings Being Used Against Users Technology is always in a state of motion, with many different goals in mind, but one that stands out the most: keeping people engaged. The intention of keeping people online and using platforms may be to have them connected to their community, PLNs, and the rest of the world….
Technology is always in a state of motion, with many different goals in mind, but one that stands out the most: keeping people engaged. The intention of keeping people online and using platforms may be to have them connected to their community and the rest of the world. Although, now, if you spend any time…
Diversity and Inclusion Contributing to a PLN Considering diversity and inclusion within Personal Learning Networks (PLN), it will look different for everyone. We all have our own biases, whether conscious or not, that influence our daily lives. As Moore and Schnellert (2016) expressed, instead of trying to get everyone to fit into the same mould,…
Expanding Professional Learning Network For students, LinkedIn is by far the best digital platform to develop one’s professional network. It lets you interact with people, businesses, and corporations; explore job postings; and keep up to date on what the current job landscape looks like. While staying on top of your LinkedIn profile is still paramount…
Digital Identity Digital Identity (DI) describes how people show up online, from how they post and interact with media to what they search on a search engine (Stroller, 2016). If someone were using the internet and social media without any care for their DI, their reckless behaviour could follow them wherever they go. Although DI…
Current Coordinates My background with personalized learning is very limited, with my only introduction to the concept and applying it having been in other EDCI courses taken (335 and 337). I vaguely remember using social media in high school for the format of a few assignments, like Instagram and YouTube, since those were the most…