Hello world, My name is Edmund Cheung and I am currently a 4th year student at UVIC. My major is Economics with a business minor. I am taking this class as an elective and thought it would be interesting to explore this topic. Distributed and open learning seemed like something more closely related to kindergarten […]
Read more "Blog Post #1 Welcome to EDCI 339"This is my final blog for EDCI 338, I am happy to spend such a wonderful time with the instructor and everyone. From this class, I learned a lot of useful knowledge regarding social media, such as the concept of PLN and digital identity. Also the difference between Personal Digital Identity and Professional Digital Identity, etc. For […]
Read more "Blog Post #6: Engaging my Personalized Learning Network – Final Session"I progressively gained a basic knowledge and grasp of the subject of learning with personal learning networks and education through the consolidation of my prior reading and the new reading material. This blog will be regarding this very subject. I believe that the majority of social media sites that provide useful content and news are […]
Read more "Blog Post #5: Personal Learning Networks & Education"This week’s topic is on Public PLN and Media Literacy, after watching the videos and the readings this session, I have a few thoughts on the topic. There are risks and benefits related to the many influences that social media can have on media personalities. Social media poses a risk to public personalities in that […]
Read more "Blog post #4: Balancing Public PLN and Media Literacy"The professional setting I will be referring to is my own workplace. Which is a small financial firm selling insurance and investment services to individuals, families, and groups. Social Media is a great form of communication for the younger generation. The younger generation being students or fresh graduates starting their first job in their industry. […]
Read more "Blog Post #3: How has your thinking about inclusion and PLN evolved?"This exercise touched on a few points that my group had discussed extensively. I have furthered their discussions with some of my own personal thoughts throughout this blog post. The digital platforms students are currently using to develop their professional network can vary depending on the student. For example in my case I use LinkedIn […]
Read more "Blog Post #2: Group Discussion and Further Insights"In highly digitized societies, the intimate relationship between people and technology has had a profound effect on the way we communicate, learn, use and store information. The Personal Learning Network is uniquely created and becomes a “Lifelong Learning” tool, evolving toward personalized learning goals to accommodate rapid economic and social changes. In a world of […]
Read more "Blog Post #1: Personal Learning Networks and Digital Identity"Hi Sullo, my fellow economics classmate, haha. I enjoyed reading about your passion of painting and the video. I don’t know much about painting so your explanation on the video helped me tremendously. I can understand how no matter the painters experience, art is something anyone can do, based on their individual imagination. This is […]
Read more "Blog Post #4 Comments"Hi Qing, happy to see that a fellow economics student is here in this class with me, haha. I enjoyed reading about your inclusive design of using colour contrast and using transcripts to help learners with these specific impairments. I wrote something quite similar to yours with changing the colour of the learning material to […]
Read more "Blog Post #3 Comments"Hi Jinwei, I think your explanation on open pedagogy was really interesting, for your information, I also did my learning design II on open pedagogy. Your explanation on learners being able to handle things effectively on their own free will made me understand this topic a bit better since I explained it using web development […]
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