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Throwback to yesterday reflecting on the past week, with pod episode iv and the following supportive materials:
Lurking: Facebook//Women in Beekeeping
Full Participant: Facebook//South Florida Edible Gardening & Sustainable Living
No more 'hashtags' please! Please?
Expertise & Crowdsourcing + Intellectual Property, Privacy, & Ethic= A WHOLE LOT OF SYNTHESIS
As per my podcast post, episode 2... Today is the synthesis day of last week and this week to plan ahead. Or something like that... but you don't need to know the details, only the delivery, unless by you, I mean my internal dialogue manifested into a reflection blog vs. the you that is a reader/follower of my blog and in which case I would like to share OER (Open Educational Resources) to you that might eventually be re-used and repurposed to make the world 'a happier, healthier, and wiser place.' (Creative Commons Under the... xyz, I'm still learningbutdontstealmyideasbuteverythingisanideasoiguessyoucanrepurposeitbutihopeiamnotforgottenandthati'llhaveasteadyincomeoffinancestosupportmeinthewaysthatineedlikefoodshelterclothinginterestsandgivingtoothers)
Okay, now that I've included a disclaimer of how to use my blog and the work ON my blog (as shown by that long run on word above^) please be respectful of my intellectual property as you continue forth with me on this internet journey.
Now then,
Owens, D., Know, T., & McConnell, S. (2021, November 17). Later, skaters: Here's the lineup to Denver's final Warped tour. The Denver Post. Retrieved June 6, 2022, from https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/01/later-skaters-heres-the-lineup-to-denvers-final-warped-tour/
The Walkmen, (2010) Angela Surf City
Weezer, (1994) Surf Wax America
Hazily, I write... as promised and to stick to my schedule *as posted in Settling into web 2.0*
Expertise & Crowd-sourcing is the topic for this week. Going based on titles, these are four articles that stood out to me:
Dennen, V. P., Bagdy, L. M., & Cates, M. L. (2018). Effective tagging practices for online learning environments: An exploratory study of approach and accuracy. Online Learning, 22(3), 103-120.
Petrucco, C. (2011). Learning about evaluation and assessment: Teacher's use of folksonomies and ontologies in an online narrative environment. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 27 (5), 399-410. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00408.x
Horstman, T., Tierney, G., & Tzou, C. (2020). Design principles for creating digital badges to support learning. Information and Learning Sciences, 121(11/12), 889-907. https://doi.org/10.1108/ils-02-2020-0042
Wilson, M. C. (2018). Crowdsourcing and self-instruction: Turning the production of teaching materials Into a learning objective. Journal of Political Science Education, 14(3), 400-408. doi:10.1080/15512169.2017.1415813
Just to name a few. As far as our upcoming assignment goes... I'm considering exploring the malleability of online communities, and the 'ebb and flow' (if you will) of how the hive mind functions.
Hopefully, this isn't nearly as painful to read as it is posting. Still recovering, still trucking.
In my half-hearted attempt to be functional on social media this week, I infinitely (felt like it, until I passed out in a sweaty-chill stupor, after 30 seconds max) scrolled TikTok and Facebook, looking for survival testimonies of the notorious COVID-19. The pride of not having caught it since lockdown in March 2020-May 2022 is probably the err that caused my misstep of no longer wearing a mask... that and also, embracing the long-lost joy of giving hugs to friends again.
#hashtags really need to be curated. I was looking for useful information about people who had COVID and how they dealt with it and the media that comes up is really not nearly as helpful as it would be if, let's say the CDC (or the Lourve) OWNED a hashtag that posts could then be approved... #priornear, you heard it here first.
Peace out, until full recovery.
Ps. I put aside some really great readings for class this week about joining the blogosphere CoP, having an intentional online persona, and PLN formal/informal learning... but as I'm here posting while being out of my healthy mind, I must say, I like the idea of having a totally divided internet persona/alias separate from a physical world identity... preponderance to come.
In lieu of recent events, and being enrolled in this class... I attempted to find answers on social media, 'the right response' to the current tragic events, in Buffalo, NY, and Uvalde, TX.
I realized I was looking for people online to say something appropriate, to answer, to resolve the current situation in our country. I skimmed Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok... nothing anyone said offered enough condolences that were needed, and I know I am incapable of delivering the message, here on this blog or at all, I prefer to remain silent at the moment if that were part of the assignment.
Honestly, I didn't want to see anything irrelevant. I wanted answers and solutions. It was frustrating to me, the non-chronology of social media, the mixing of current events with yesterday's news of someone's birthday party or a bad meme... the mixed-up timelines on the social media platforms felt insensitive.
It's difficult to reflect this week, in addition to the circumstances I also may have COVID.
I am giddy with that familiar blogging feeling that I got during my peak blogging years, ages 14-23. I set myself up too. If you listened to "Episode 2, Settling into Web 2.0," you'd have known I'd be posting today. Despite not being entirely sure that I want to write, I have the same adrenaline, excitement, and a fluid flow of potentiality that I might create something that truly comes from my innermost authentic self. Ah, I have long awaited to get back into the flow of blogging, and I am supremely excited that I have a CoP, Community Of Practice, and Personal Learning Network with me as I re-embark on this journey. These classmates of mine, perhaps you who are reading (I hope), are also writing such brilliant and inspirational entries that truly ignite my interests in the course topics and provide my learning with such depth and complexities of original thought, experiences, and introspections that I would have never gotten just reading the class material lonesome.
Some of my personal favorites and key bloggers of interest in the class for me so far are:
The motherboard blog is the OG EME6414 Web 2.0, written by Doc.
This is Lohe Pono by Kalei Holt, a Hawaiian Environmentalist working with youth in the non-profit sector.
Trev Willians of TW's Blog also conducts the FarmTraveler podcast about farm-to-table restaurants and sustainable, environmental entrepreneurs and projects.
I am a fan of Tired Teacher, who, seemingly without effort, always provides insightful and thoughtful reflections on the weekly topics and readings.
Finally, my master's career-long study buddy super-woman friend, Melanie Yurewitch, is an excellent person to have in my blogosphere, who I appreciate on a-whole-nother-level. In addition to being a student, she does two hands-full things, including mothering two children under two, working full-time with youth, home-care, and (personal interest bonus and possible theme for my semester) she studied Environmental Science, we regularly connect to on the backchannels. She's a significant influencer for me to stay motivated and engaged. I highly recommend finding a study buddy or blog buddy!
Which blogs are your favorite? How many do you read!? Please share a mini-description of your blog!
This week's readings make me want to pull up some learning theories and flush through my notes a bit.
So, I read these articles out of the prescribed order (by Doc), and Prensky's Digital Native (2001) should have been read first as the other articles were written almost two decades later... In that way, it seems silly to criticize his writing because there is quite a lot of sensibility to it, especially in its written time.
Regarding the idea of digital natives vs. digital immigrants... the first thing that comes to mind is similar to the validity questioning (but instead of with the natives), 'digital immigrants' quite possibly not being the most desirable term, being that it is generalizing. Side note, many countries call immigrants different terms depending on the culture, for example, ex-pats in Asia. Next, what about the quality of the generation that witnessed the founding and growth of technology? They should have their own cyber-appropriate generational-generalization? They were the generation of brilliant movies like Hackers and the Matrix Trilogy. They were on the brink of studying space through new-age sci-fi films and the time/space travels of Star Trek and Star Wars. It is entirely unfair to just call these people who witnessed the turn of an age digital immigrants as if they had come into something that others had originated when they were a part of the origins! Like how African-Americans helped create the society America is today, they were not immigrants. They were part of the founding civilizations that established the foundation of what has been built upon for the generations that were birthed amongst the greatness. They saw the development of these revolutionary tools, and some of them embraced it. These people are the OG Generation, in my personal opinion. Technology was the newest, shiniest, fastest tool. These people really embraced the possibilities and inventiveness of what was and continued to arrive, a new dimension, if you will.
A digital native, in my opinion, might not be as prone to excitement about technology. As if it’s an old discarded toy. While they grew up, they didn't get to see the discovery of slicing bread. They were just given a slice. I know, I'm writing this ENTIRELY BIASED, both as an OG Net user by association and as 'just grazing' the digital native divide, and as a total nerd/geek (but the way less cool kind, I don't know nearly as much as the cool ones… you know the ones that build networks and computers and softwares) that has been ABSOLUTELY FASCINATED by the development of Web 2.0 as I saw it in Windows 95 and ICQ era... I wasn't a passenger of the 'nth' satellite floating in space. I was amongst those who witnessed those who witnessed the Sputnik go 'there'. I truly respect the OG generation (the ones who taught me about the potential and possibilities of the web) and I don’t know if that makes me a digital native or an OG poser/wannabe or an OG by association… but the OGs should not be discarded as foreigners. The OGs witnessed the Big Bang of the Internet, they aren’t foreigners! They are observers and the OriginalGangsters of the net! Let us not forget the OG generation!!! They deserve an applause for harnessing the power and igniting the take-off of the net we know today!
Ps. Or Digital OG?! You tell me?
Day 1 of week 2: Digital Natives and Produsage
