Reflection on Twitter Assignment

Prompt: Reflect on your experience performing one of the required collection activities. What did you find most challenging? What questions remain? Why do you think I required it? What advice would you give a student if you could travel into the future and give them advice? This assignment tasked us with setting up a Twitter account (if we didn’t already have one), posting a tweet, following the instructor, and using the direct message feature. I can’t exactly reflect on my Continue reading Reflection on Twitter Assignment

ED 431 Assignment: Web Presence

*** Please note that my ED 431 course requires us to post our assignments in draft form for classmates to provide feedback. The following entry is a draft. I encourage all criticisms of content or style. Thank you!*** Personally, I define one’s web presence as the combination of all the activities one engages in online that come up in search results on Google and other engines — whether that person intended for that information to be publicly associated with them Continue reading ED 431 Assignment: Web Presence

ED 431 Web 2.0 Fundamentals

This summer I am taking ED 431 Web 2.0 Fundamentals. This is the third course I’ve taken through University of Alaska Fairbanks’ (UAF) Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Online Innovation and Design (ONID) program. You can view the course openly online at https://sites.google.com/a/alaska.edu/ed431su13/home Do I feel a silly taking a Web 2.0 Fundamentals course at this point in my education and career, particularly given my experience and personal interest in this area? Yes. But this is a required course for Continue reading ED 431 Web 2.0 Fundamentals