Crowdsourcing or OER?
Vanessa CCrowdsourcing is not a new concept to me. In fact it is highly used by every programmer (we live on Stack Overflow). Crowdsourcing is also used in so many other…
Tags! How I’ve Used Them
The first thing I thought about when I saw tags this week was that I don't use them on this blog. As I add photos and other metadata to my…
Social Butterfly Challenge
Me a social butterfly? Who would have taught it? My introverted personality and my distaste for most social media would never lead me to be called a social butterfly. A…
I signed up for Reddit
At the start of this week I signed up for Reddit as part of working on Community Paper due in the next couple weeks. Until about 7 months ago, I…
How I Manage Context Collapse
Until now I have not really considered how I sensor myself based on the persons on my different social media platforms. The platforms that has the greatest degree of context…
Week 2 Reflection
This has been an exciting week where several persons raised concerns about privacy and security. This is a topic with a constant presence in the social media conversation. Additionally is…
The Complexities of the Personal Network
This week I read Chapter 5: Networked Relationships of Rainie, L. & Wellman, B. (2013) Networked: The new social operating system. The chapter discusses how personal networks have changed with time.…
US Surgeon General Issues Warning on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Yesterday the US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, released a warning about the use of social media and youth mental health. What then are the implications for it's use in…
The Tech Behind Open Education Resources
In Spring 2023 I took a course that introduced me to Open Education Resources (OERs). It was a term that I heard before, but never truly researched how it all…
Why I don’t like Twitter
I have been a member of Twitter for the last 10 years. I joined in the height of what I term the "Twitter fad". Everyone one was joining, so I…