Month: October 2022

How diverse is your PLN?

My PLN is not so diverse, it contains my local friend groups and few discussion hobby groups, I do not have really far connections with any professional people that I can help with. I am looking to expand my social media and thus to gain more followers and friend thru different account so I can estblish a variety of relationships, I will also try different apps to set up my PLN and this way I can gain more resources.

What is a learning outcome of your PLN and how are you insuring your exposure to diversity and inclusion?

My PLN is to ensure that i gain knolwedge and experiance from different groups of people, to have an insight of how they will do things and try to take what they do that will in turn benefit me and learn from it. The exposure to diversity and inlusion must be set up that i need to obey a few rules, first is to reach out to different topics that will allow me to learn inclusion well. Second is when setting up the PLN, expect diversities and do not set up a default expected type that I should learn from, in other word, do not set up a bar for people to expect them to be a certain identity or believe a ceratin value, instead, try to know about their values with and understand more about their backgrounds.

How would you create a PLN prior to engaging in a social media campaign on a topic of your choice?

I would first create PLN with where i can get good sources of information from, for exmple people in apps that i message or interact daily, they would be my sources of information when i am interacting with them. Second, I would find groups with common background of interest or institutional group where they are special expert at something, their information shared would allow me to gain potential knowledge of stuff. And once I have that, i would continue to find groups to expand on my connection and building influence, for exmaple: to gain more followers on instagram or join more group of chat or be engaged more in a discussion forum. That way i have more connections and people who listen to me, and once i feel like that is enough, I can go ahead and start the PLN campaign.

• Explore the video provided and reflect on the themes of a PLN in a professional capacity.

PLN for alot of people really carries out their personal perspective in thier own ways to reach out in the learning society. Take Brad Baker for exmaple, he was able to create his own PLN and merge it with his own intent of professional approach in the teaching that he does. This apporach is based on his own circumstances that benefits him and the desire he wants to make thru his educational goals. He was able to surround himself with communities that is healthy for him to orchastrate his learning in helping indigenous people learn, which has been greate for him as a indigenous communities that has been born in a family where his dad went to residential school and thus grew up with the values of raising indigenous voices to be heard thru education.

• Consider which social media platforms are beneficial in education, and ask yourself how you would add social media teaching to an industry you’re interested in – expand your thoughts in your blog.

Social media is a great way for people to share their thoughs and values with each other, it is great that people are able to not only learn directly from themselves but also interact and make learning progress more feasible togeather with thier colleagues. Teaching industry could definitely make use of the strong interactivity social media has provided with and make interactive task. For example student writing thier assignment in an open assessible social media platorm and people have to comment, which is what this course is doing. And also student can engage in social media interactivity togeather for example exchange one useful resource related to learning they’ve found with another student and co share their thought on social media about it. That beind said, same activity can also be done in thier reflectivity of doing thier assignment.

• When working with the vulnerable sector, how does social media fit into professionalism and regulations? Consider education, healthcare, and messaging to minor children via social media/gaming. 

One thing that stands out is that socal media is what we can choose to customize based on our own working preference, For example, If i choose to work in a health care sector I will make my page approporiately so that it follows the rules of health care workers, and I will get surroundings with the similar results possible subscribing to similar thread for better resources. And if i do happen to be in a educational setting, I would choose to oriente my social media that way. For minor childern they have to be aware that social medias are connected and very reachable, if they expose themselves too much without much of professional caution, their identity is not going to safe online. It is important that when we use soical media we oriente our personal identity hidden, sometimes in working sections we tend to follow the rules and keep our identities as only professional workers, however, in gaming setting, we can potentially expose our own iderntity, so people need to especially be careful with that if you are a minor.