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Sunday Reflections - Week 4


Tonight’s blog will be short and sweet. It’s 11 PM on a Sunday night and I am running out of steam. This week was an adventure into Social Media. I said I was going to dig into social media and make sure that I get up and running on a few platforms. I am after all in a Web 2.0 class, so I want to make sure that I get some participation time in social media :-). 

So, on Saturday, I carved out a few hours in the day to do just that. I tweeted and responded to a few posts on Twitter. I played around in Pinterest, Reddit, and watched a few videos from our class Youtube channel. On YouTube, I found out about two cool tools that I can use in my courses, Doodly (a chalkboard animation tool) and Viko (a character simulation tool), so of course I had to venture onto their websites. I had thought of incorporating a video using Viko, but I didn’t have time this week. But, I should be able to incorporate at least one this summer. On Twitter, I found a few interesting posts. A few our my classmates had posted some great resources about learning trends and online communities. And, then on Reddit, I spent more time reading the Instructional Design Reddit subgroup. I found the conversation rather engaging and wanted to contribute my opinion. I actually spend way more time than I had originally intended.

All in all, I’m building a toolbox of different social media tools and it is great to explore how each one is used to engage audiences while curating content. I hope that now that I am signed up on various platforms, I can keep the momentum during the week. It would be great to at least post a few times during the week on Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. I’ll let you know next week if I succeed. Well, that’s all for now, because after all I did say I was going to keep this post short and sweet.

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  1. Heather KentJune 13, 2019 at 9:11 AM

    Just like everything else, I have found that you have to schedule time to explore new tools and try them out! Otherwise, it can get a little overwhelming. This week, I tried to carve out time to explore the social bookmarking tools.

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