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,

Hi my name is chuhe song, Bruce is my preferred name. I am a final year student of sociology degree. I want work as something that has to do with feedbacks in society, and that is basically what people do with a sociology degree. I just turned 24 and looking to graduate in April, if possible I might go for graduate studies. I am not yet sure at this moment. The reason that I want to take this course is because I want to become someone that may work in educational goals in the future, therefore I belive this course or any EDCI course is going to help me.