A Web 2.0 Learning Blog

I recently joined a new Central Florida group for Instructional Designers. We named it the I4 IDs (the name was my idea). It is a revival of a previous group that existed in 2019. I created a LinkedIn group for the organization, and the goal is to have a website down the line. It's still early but actively engaging in the creation of a new network that exists as an in-person group and online community is exactly what this course is about! Feel free to join if you're in Florida at all.  Links:  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12835226/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i4ids-orlando-learning-design-group-articulate-storyline-interactive-jam-tickets-630999375117 \

The Impacts of Personality Traits, Use Intensity and Features Use of LinkedIn on Bridging Social Capital | SpringerLink   LinkedIn is a valuable tool for many middle-market professionals, like it or not.  This study discusses how LinkedIn can be used to gain social capital. Social capital is "the collection of resources owned by the members of an individual's personal social network and that may become available because of the history of these relationships." Translation: We can use LinkedIn to gain access to to the social capital of others. How can we use LinkedIn for this? Become a more extroverted and intense LinkedIn user.  Ways to increase capital: React, share, and follow, forward articles, make comments, and deliberately add new contacts. Less passive lurking and more active engagement.  Just like putting yourself out there and "going outside" can create connections and open doors, putting yourself out there on professional social media can lead to reward...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehR5lgATDY&ab_channel=Howfinity Recently, Florida Governor Ron Desantis had a digital "campaign kick off" using Twitter Spaces. Twitter Spaces is an interactive voice chatroom that users can host and join. This event crashed the Twitter servers several times and the Space kept crashing due to bandwidth and swarms of users.  I've seen other accounts host Spaces with small accounts, prominent accounts, CEOs, New York Times roundtables, and all sorts of different communities. This feature is heavily pushed on the mobile app too. These spaces are recorded and archived automatically too. What do we think of this voice-first approach to Web 2.0 interactions? 

 Inspired by Huong's post documenting what she saw and interacted with on her TikTok for a hour, here's a brief scroll of my "Following" feed on Twitter: -Chicago District Police Scanner -Trump vs DeSantis discourse -Barstool Sports and NBA ref burner accounts -Quentin Tarantino asking "What even is a motion picture anymore?" -More Zelda creations  -UCF sports at Times Square -5 quick fitness tips -Information about the debt ceiling fight and the looming deadline -Automated Amazon deal notifiers This is a pretty curated and diverse list. Maybe I'll log my interactions next time.

  Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (marcprensky.com) The concept of a digital native, as written in 2001, has already seen a lot of changes in 2023. One interesting thing to note is the technical ability of young people. For my generation, we had to learn how to navigate computers designed for adults, complete with dial-up, forums, and many assumptions of knowledge. If you knew how to use the internet, navigate a file system, or troubleshoot, you had genuine skills. Today, the barrier for entry is so low. Many students never have to touch a file system. Everything is supposed to just work, and everything is simplified for apps and smart devices. Are young people today upskilling technically like we were forced to do in the late 90s and 2000s, or are they getting stuck using anything beyond a Chromebook? The myths of the digital native and the multitasker - ScienceDirect I had heard of this concept before in a prior class. We pretend that we can multitask with technology and we r...

Since Canvas is a hot topic of discussion these days, I decided to take a look at Web 2.0 tools in Canvas. Let's go back and try to the new discussion format too!  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/K12-Canvas-Users/Embedding-Web-2-0-Tools/ba-p/273053 https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2022/11/07/the-best-web-2-0-applications-for-education-in-2022/ Some patterns I noticed in these tools: -An emphasis on collaboration and "participation" -Polls and opinions being displayed visually and organized -Collaborative spaces that mimic real spaces -Assessment and activity creation -Streamlining web searches into a curated app -Converting text into more interesting formats or dimensions Now, most of this is for K-12 users (which is crazy to me since I always saw Canvas as college only). But I have to say that in my time at UCF and FSU, it was pretty rare to use an external tool within Canvas for any of the purposes mentioned above. I have used Flipgrid a few times though. Was it ju...

  Bruns, A. (2008).  The future is user-led: The path towards widespread produsage Links to an external site. .  Fibreculture Journal, 11 . This ties directly into my thoughts about users forming bubbles. The thing that makes it so different these days is the use of algorithms that help keep users in the bubble. These bubbles used to be by choice - now most people have feeds that spit bubble content back at them.  Dennen, V. P. (2020).  A brief overview of key concepts for EME6414 . This was a nice overview of some concepts I had some background knowledge on. Looking at my old (2016) blog posts when I was in a similar course, the pace of change is so rapid that it's hard to keep up. These concepts and networks are so fluid and constantly changing. It seems difficult to draw conclusions on what they are and how people use them because both ends of the equation keep changing. Even just looking at K-12 classrooms, the technology used in them is equivalent...

 I only recently started using Twitter a lot - since the rumored buy out, purchase, and general transformation. Supposedly I'm not alone here. The platform has way more of an "old internet" feeling now, which is a positive.  One interesting trend is the inclusion of a "For You" tab. Mirroring other platforms like Tiktok or Instagram, For You captured people you follow, but also recommends tweets, accounts, and content to you using the open source algorithm. This leads to endless content that can be pulled from anywhere. It has pulled me outside my bubble and also pulled me into accounts related to my bubble. Just having content from accounts you manually chose to follow is not enough anymore for any social media platform. Some let you separate between the two, and others blur the lines together. As the internet keeps transforming and evolving, I'm excited about how smarter feeds can let users really have a "choose your own adventure" experience onl...

Turns out I already had a Blogger account from a previous Online Rhetoric and Digital Communities course. Relevant! I'm interested in revving it up again with all my new knowledge and skills for EME 6414.