Month: September 2022

• What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network?

there are lot of the platforms that can be potentially used to develop personal networks, one of them I have used are twitter, since twitter is one of the apps that allows you to interact with people, allow you to have access to media, and also allows you to have many useful artifacts about learning from professional learning channels.

• What could the student consider in expanding their professional learning network?

they can choose to link themselves with the right people and whom they feel suitable of coming in contact, or they should consider weather or not these person are professionals in terms of learning. in the reading : View of Understanding personal learning networks: Their structure, content and the networking skills needed to optimally use them | First Monday it shows how people should construct and maintain their learning network which I find really helpful. It has mentioned that many factors plays a role such as the nature of the tie, and nature of the profession you are trying to learn.

• How do data privacy and security limit and/or promote a PLN?

One way it would limit it is the privacy settings and data control, I would say if your settings were way too private other people cannot reach you and thus you might lose a chance of potentially building and expanding your interactive network. However, it you are too open it could cause too much disturbance with too many people approaching and thus it would be hard for you to focus on really building your network, you always want to keep your tied clear and concise.

• In your network how can you create a digital identity/ reputation?

It is best to write more about topics you are interested and let people know you are, act kindly, and show potential for collaboration and potential for learning by sharing context that makes you able to collaborate with others and show insights of it.

• How did pivots to work-from-home during the COVID-19 pandemic change how we should consider our social media connectivity and professional balance?

a lot of times now we are just working from home after the hit of covid-19, it is more than important to value the online working as part of the adjustment we will be making long term and therefore we have to readjust to the notion of communicating “virtually” since we are able to make real working out put and learning progress that are contributed from a virtual space. Therefore, every virtual thing we thought as fake before is being taken real and more serious upon. Upon realizing that, people started to shift more of their workload into working online and started to use it as a platform to build real personal reputations and makes connections thru it.

At the end, here is my V&R map, I drew it since I couldn’t find the app to draw it online.

I feel like when personal learning network is useful is that you are able to expand your own learning space virtually connecting with the people that are around you are able to get the people you think is suitable for your learning progress as part of your learning circle. It is a great way to build learning identity in online social circle and your learning identity thru it because you are building a page and connecting circles with people you choose to form and they also know your identity thru your process of trying to learn. obviously with the act of trying to reach out to the outside world with the social identity you would also come to encounter issues on areas about potentially exposing your privacy to others. However in some content that you want to share, or i would say have to share in terms of trying to learn or build relationships, you have to face the risk of letting your information out for others and thus losing your privacy. Therefore, as you are involved in more connections and communities, the chances of exposing your privacy is also higher, it is important to know what to do when you are setting yourself up to emerge as part of the community group, to know when to do the right thing and what to do in order to protect yourself from your privacy being leaked out while you are building relationships from outside. As we are building up our own PLNs we are mostly using personal approaches, and that approach is going to be not so rigorous compared to the professional ones, and that it is definitely going to be somewhere flaws and thus we should be careful when we are building relationships in what we put on it. I’ve personally not really shared anything that are reflectable of my information, it is mostly works from school. However in some post I have done is that I shared thoughts about my personal experience in which I don’t think it is too much of a privacy problem in doing so.

What does it mean to network using social media?

To network using social media means that you are connected with various other people using a platform thru networking on the internet. Networking on it means that people establish various social media interaction in different ways on social media thru internet and form a network of connectivity thru different means.

 How are we motivated to participate in networked publics?

We are motivated to establish our own self guided PLN that to only fit to our own customized circumstances and interest, we choose who to interact and learn from. This is based on who we feel comfortable with In doing so and build ties at different levels, we are enouraged to maintain connections with our ties by connecting and reaching out with them thru social medias.

 What are the risks & rewards of public communications

risk is that information are sometimes not secured, although we have been constantly trying hard and improving on the ways to protect our information security, you can never completely protect your information. At the end of the day, we face drawbacks of possible judgement from outside after losing information, and that could effect sometimes our employment and other hidden resume we may have. reward is obviously that we are able to link with more people easily and are ale to connect them in many different kind of ways thru different plateforms and social medias.

Thoughts and conclusions on the readings this week

The readings this week has outlined interesting points where it introduced PLN and other networking online platforms people use to connect and learn and why we should be learning it. It is outlined in detail how one should orchastrate one and maintain one. The information security reading also gave the pros and cons of modern internet communications and how our privicies can be affected by it and the dangers behind it. It was overall a pretty good comprehensive introduction of the newly emerged network stage and the PLN, it has outlined the pros and cons and what we should do with it upon our interaction with them,

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