When I saw “PLN & Education” as the section title I assumed this one would feel the least relevant to me out of everything so far, since teaching isn’t the career path I’m headed toward. Turns out Dyer’s talk made the case that this stuff applies whether or not you’re actually going into education, and…

Going into this week I figured “media literacy” would be one of those topics that’s mostly common sense dressed up in academic language, the kind of thing you already sort of know. The house hippo video changed my mind pretty fast. It’s a completely fake creature built out of puppets and clever camera work, and…

My Visitor / Resident Map Below is my Visitor / Resident map, plotting where I sit across the platforms I actually use, from institutional to personal, and from visitor to resident. Making this map was a good excuse to actually sit down and think about how I use each platform. LinkedIn sits in the institutional/resident…

Going into this week’s readings, I would have described my social media use as a place to keep up with friends and occasionally get lost down a rabbit hole. What I hadn’t really considered is how much of what I do online is quietly building something more structured called a Personal Learning Network. What does…