It's Monday and the beginning of a new Academic Semester, in which I am no longer being formally included, as I have GRADUATED! See image below:
Perhaps though, the academic semesters can still be an informal learning template for me to follow, as I am deeply interested in scholars, academics, and seasons... continuous work life 365 day cycle seems absurd to me. I'll take a breather in between seasonal transitions if you'll allow me... heck, everyone should participate in a siesta, if only daily living planning and schedules were up to me... especially in places as close to the equator as Miami.
Wouldn't we all be more productive and perform better if we slept during the heat of the day? Where are the scholars out there to prove this, science majors, sociology professors? Performance professionals?
Hello, is anybody in the blogosphere even reading this? For the sake of my run-on sentences, unknowing yet systematic approach, and developing professional voice, perhaps, if even, only my good ol' class colleagues are... at least until structure, organization, formatting, and clear narrative voice become orderly, measured, and more socially appropriate...
Lan, T.-Y., Lan, T.-H., Wen, C.-P., Lin, Y.-H., & Chuang, Y.-L. (2007, September). Nighttime Sleep, Chinese afternoon nap, and mortality in the elderly. Sleep. Retrieved August 22, 2022, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1978410/#:~:text=Afternoon%20nap%20is%20a%20traditional,who%20need%20longer%20sleeping%20time.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine, a few major things happened to me... I began interacting remotely and virtually with mental health communities... trading perspectives, experiences, and suggestions on various Reddit forms.
Soon after, I got into the FSU ISLT program, and I believe that my personal learning network began to merge into a Personal, Professional Learning Network... I am interested in applying mental health practices in a systemic and instructional way to various organizations through change management... i know, that's a mouthful... it's a lot of industry terms...
And to think, I just wrote 3 pages about it... I hope they were sensible because it was one of the last assignments before completing my degree program... and it should provide me with reflections and insights to continue on a trajectory of personalized, informal learning even after I've been aluminized from the institution.
Can people's PLNs be observed from their online presence? Perhaps partly, but there is some anonymity, especially on certain forums like Reddit and Discord. Personal development should be constant progress. Upcoming soon is a review on how I might qualify as a source for others to consider their own personal development education!
Last week I attended the Social Media Society Conference and made some cool new Twitter mates, who are active in the Social Media Industry, including those I interacted with most, @YiTing_Uhm in Hawai'i and @yuying_tan in Germany! Coincidentally, they're both Chinese, as am I! Yiting is finishing up her PhD and a thesis on TikTok, and I'm super inspired by her work on research about gesticulation and behavior on video... (Did I get that right???)
Also, I began following Thot Leedur, @DocDre and Popup Innovator, @EthanZ... who I'm actually in conversation with!!! I'm so excited to have listened to both of them during the conference and am especially excited that I got to interact with the notorious inventor of pop-up ads.
Excellent, inspiring, and insightful keynote. Thank you very much! Reason for a moderated network for highschool students within a neighborhood community could produce immediate activism, and where better to find willing activists than in a hs classroom?#SMSociety#EME6414
Finally, as I write this quick reflection, I catch up by listening to the first Keynote speaker, Dr. Moya Bailey, @moyazb from Northwestern University.
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Post listening to @Moyazb's keynote about the ethics of social media/networks... The keynote was primarily about paying proper tribute to natives/indigenous tribes of areas where resources are being used that contribute to the upkeep, care, and maintenance of social network servers... Many of the servers need water to keep them cooled down, as well as physical locations. Iphone factories in China has high rates of suicide and also implemented anti-sucicide preventions... not in the way that you think (not MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND MAINTENANCE) but more so physical restrictions to prevent workers from committing suicide!?! (Isn't that just horrendous?!). Also, Dr. Bailey makes you question, where are old electronics disposed of? Can they be recycled and reused to create more technologically advanced equipment, rather than just accumulating into a giant mountain of trash, she suggests the answer to solving these issues is to consider the future in the perspective of a science fiction novel... Which I find totally inspiring and... perhaps when I have more time, this is an area I'd like to further explore.
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Here's a pict of me grounding, but in a tree... Harvesting avocado!
This week, I changed up my blogging schedule... I feel more at ease. Reflecting on writing blogs in the early years of greatest/Livejournal and Xanga (?) really gives me 'the feels'. Most of my early posts were centered around documenting my life, and my later childhood/early adolescence. As i began to develop blogging as an art, I started exploring coding and fashion/lifestyle blogs, easily influenced by two bloggers I followed during that time, one of whom I can't find these days, if anyone knows who it is, it was something about Katrina and pugs? and the other is a now Swedish author and influencer, Niotillfem... I was one of her first followers! I even have comments on my old blog from her before she got famous.
I am attempting to brainstorm how I might continue blogging post eme6414... in a way that is authentic to myself. Open to hearing ideas, suggestions, and perspectives of classmates and their planned journeys after the class in regards to web 2.0 and blogging!
TiredTeacher initiated a Blog surf challenge that is really interesting, but also a bit of an investment. I'll try to do it this week, I've just visited four blogs already and left comments (Myurewitch's challenge was to comment). My systematic approach is to visit in intervals of four, but also, I like visiting from one blog that has a comment to bounce to another classmate's blog... for example I keep hearing about bathing habits, so obviously I had to visit ISDbyJDCL. I find link surfing the most fun way to connect to blogs (I like to click!) and wish people left more comments... Thank you, Melanie, for always leaving me a comment!
Getting closer to graduation has me finishing up my Master's Comprehensive Exam, aka. my online portfolio. You can check it out here. I'm very happy to be getting closer to the Masters' Finish line. I'll be visiting Tallahassee July 25-August 1st, do any Tallahassee residents know what scenic views to visit. Any ideas on where to go? I saved Steel Magnolia's infographic! Which is your number one visit?
Major fan of this week's reading about PSN health care industries by Mettler. It made me think of web 3.0, decentralized networks... Although, I'm not entirely sure I understand. It seems if anything, PSNs are more centralized.
I really think that these private networks for professionals to interact, problem-solve, and make loose associations to their professional developments really use a useful platform.
Also, because of this class, I'm fascinated by the Facebook platform for communities and find that, although it has grown wildly organic and is a hub for tons of misinformation and spam, is actually quite a revolutionary platform, that can be resourced really well.
As I read Mettler's article, I thought about the initial reason I began the ISLT program, to expand the network of people who are educated about Dialectical Behavioral Therapy topics... I think that this article provides a great platform for psychologists, counselors who are certified in that area.
This is a project done in a Visual Thinking class for Undergrad... the assignment was to create artwork using a different process than we usually would, so I took a vow of silence for a full week and then created this video artpiece...
I cringe watching it now, in retrospect, how distrubing to play in the sand that way!!
Anyway, the meditation for this weeks podcast reminded me of the past project. The meditation can be done anywhere, anytime! I hope you enjoy!
I've always enjoyed... (social) media, especially the 'creation' part of it. For most social media I use, I began first as a creator, using the platforms to express myself FOR MYSELF. At the beginning of this class, I was excited to possibly excel as a social media artist and bridge my self-expression creator self into a social media content creator/influencer... As the weeks went by and I pushed-pushed, created, interacted, explored... caught covid, had long covid, and watched as Roe V Wade overturned, I hadn't realized that I was living in a dark dark cloud of networkisms. The moment I received the 12am email from Dr. Dennen that it was respite/detox week, I felt that cloud lift. I can't begin to explain how awakened I feel from this 'Detox' assignment. I truly learned something about myself, that a career in social media IS NOT FOR ME. I enjoy content creation... I do not enjoy the hive of social media, even now, as I return, much rested from a week off, I can feel the stormy clouds beginning to surround my mind again...