My First Blog :)

It feels like just yesterday was the first day of classes. Time really does go by faster the older you get. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun during my time in Exploring Your Digital Portfolio. I also have a lot of respect for our teacher (Professor Kyle Calderwood). Not too often do you find someone outside the millennial generation that's in tune with social media. Mr. Calderwood is that exception. He even teaches people Minecraft (that's honestly super cool)! The content of the course itself was also rather refreshing. Social media is starting to be utilized in education more, but I believe it still isn't talked about enough in general courses. It's such a large part of our life and its so ingrained in most people my age at this point that I feel it needs to be talked about more for us to get the most out of it. Now, what I'm going to do is briefly go through most of the things we talked about and did over the course of the semester. We started off the semes

This week in class we listened to someone speak who is a police officer in Memphis. It was neat to hear all of the ways technology has evolved the way he does his job and it was really cool hearing some of the stories he's amassed over the years. We also went over some different resources to use when building a website. This week our assigned reading was the last two chapters in "LOL...OMG". The second to last chapter (chapter 10) talks about your digital citizenship. It talks about how what you say in tweets or facebook posts online are only part of your citizenship. It is also how you act and convey yourself to other people. You are in control of how you act online. You may not be able to control everything everyone posts about you, but you can control how you respond to those things. The next chapter talks about our reputations online and anonymity. I agree with the author when he says there is still good use for staying anonymous online. I get that you can say whate

It was a humbling week for the Flyers. No wins in our last three games although we did manage to get a point out of two of them by forcing overtime. This week in class we had out second app smack down. There were a lot of interesting apps and it was really neat to hear about all the new innovative apps at our fingertips. We also were introduced to the world of augmented reality. Augmented reality and Virtual reality are both really impressive new technologies that will change the way we do a lot of things in our lives. I think it will especially be a good tool for educators. Just thinking from some of the things we saw in class, but you could have students wear augmented reality glasses and project molecules in front of the class. It sounds like an immersive experience that will help students learn. Our reading for this week was chapter seven of "LOL...OMG". This chapter discusses reputation management. There are seven key steps to protect your reputation that they talk a