Assignment For week 1 Personal site:
1. Create a personal and/education related blog at http://www.blogger.com
2. On your personal blog: Post an introduction of yourself and some thoughts about why you are taking this class, the experience you bring to the group and provide some insights on the potential for social and digital media in your class. upload a small photo if you'd like. Please do take the time to read and respond to your classmates.
During the week:
3. Complete readings and use them to inform your responses to the questions posed above (to be posted on this class site). Instead of the main discussion board in Blackboard we will use this as a class blog where we will discuss as a group your posts regarding the use of social media.
4. Sign up for the various sites listed here
The following are some suggestions of sites to sign up with and try for yourself. In Blackboard you will find a document labeled signups which will list them in full description. Some of you may already participate in a few of these social media, so for the purpose of this class if you have a personal Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) account and want to separate your thoughts in another account that covers the course topic areas feel free to start another blogsite...otherwise keep and build upon your current site.
Except for a blog you are not required to sign up for every single one of these listed here, but you should have familiarity with the ‘experience’ of participating in ‘like’ sites. After all, your blogsite should be logging your thoughts about your daily use or ‘ingestion’ of these social media outlets to place yourselves in the experience. Be sure if you don’t decide to sign up for Twitter, to sign up for one of its ‘like’ counterparts (facebook does include one but the experience is very different, especially because Twitter uses simple SMS (text messaging) which connects you from your phone.
The object is to create an awareness of your own use; do you feel more connected or isolated by the experience? Use questions driven from your own thoughts and those from the class discussions.
Suggestions to sign up for: (For full descriptions and weblinks you can google them or see the class blackboard site for a word document labeled signups)
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