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 I made a LinkedIn post collecting a presentation and some great links for my Knowledge Sharing Full Version. Please check it out and let me know what you think! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7080354476439527424-lA7v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

It's that time of life again, where I'm on the hunt for new jobs as I start winding down my current one. I've been looking at a mix of Instructional Design and non-Instructional Design related roles. My LinkedIn is polished and ready to go. What sort of Instructional Design interview, hiring, and jobs tips do you guys have? Any keywords or places I should look out for? Thanks in advance!

I chose to write the concept version of the community paper. Some takeaways: With the constant change in online tools and formats, it sometimes surprises me how the same original principles can apply. Tools change but people do not. The intersection of online criminal communities is interesting! Not the place to do a deep dive of research (although it would have been a great idea to have before the full version?) but communities that are focused on illegal and unethical activities would be really fascinating to look at. It could be a strange rabbit hole to look at carefully though.  A familiar pattern in this program continues where I've analyzed the "why" of places and concepts that I never thought too much about. My ideal community is a mixed one. I want in-person interaction and meetings while still having an online place to check and stay informed. The I4 IDs is helping to accomplish this! Somebody could write an entire book on the strange communities and practices of...

Virtual meeting while I was home. Fire alarm inspections that whole afternoon in my building. #MemeMonday pic.twitter.com/zEvPg4kLMd — Brett (@BrettTweets314) June 14, 2023 I have a YouTube Premium subscription which is just the greatest. I’m also a big user of Microsoft To-Do and Microsoft Teams. #eme6414 #ToolboxTuesday — Brett (@BrettTweets314) June 14, 2023 Any free resources for building large curriculum documents and materials? #WonderingWednesday — Brett (@BrettTweets314) June 14, 2023 TBT to the first iMacs I used in school. Fun colors and designs. #eme6414 #ThrowbackThursday pic.twitter.com/D1r6FqsmvU — Brett (@BrettTweets314) June 15, 2023 I recommended @wirecutter for #FollowFriday . Great product reviews and comparisons for essentials and other items. #EME6414 — Brett (@BrettTweets314) June 16, 2023 This challenge threw back to the early days of Twitter and social media, where there were universal innocent trends each week. I...

 With all of out talk of privacy, targeted content, and ethics, a lot of people need to realize how free services and programs make money and function. You, the user, are the product. Other people and organizations pay the social media program for your data and to deliver ads and services to you.  This concept - "You are the product" began in the 1970s as television markets exploded in growth. TV is all about selling ads to the user. When we watch a program, we might pay for cable but the goal is to reach you and deliver advertisements. This short film is considered to be the first time this was used. Check it out! Many of these concepts can be applied to social media 50 years later. It's more of an art piece criticizing mass media and exploitation.     " Will Oremus   makes the connection   between Serra’s early 1970s tv and 21st-century Facebook: It was the everyperson’s refuge, a groundbreaking technology that had morphed into a mindless escap...

One under-discussed aspect when it comes to online knowledge collection is group chats. Group chat can spring up among friends, family, jobs and classes, or in different online communication tools like Discord or Facebook. This is online curation in its purest form. People bring different evidence and artifacts to the chat and generate conversations based off it. People can choose whether to save them for their own individual use or let them slide into the void of an endless group chat. People bring their own expertise to these chats and will ask questions to the group chat and "crowdsource" information.  Never thought I would analyze a group chat for class. 

 This week was super busy and packed, so I'm only getting to my posts and interactions these last few days.  Mechanical Turk: Conducting behavioral research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - Florida State Univ. (exlibrisgroup.com) I had vaguely heard of this before. It's like a Task Rabbit, Fiver, or Angie's List for complex research, lab work, and API work. A side hustle for lab work. Interesting!  The internet has been connecting communities and workers for income for a very long time. This is something that is now fully accessible, for all ranges of work, backgrounds, and locations. I'd like to see a study like this for cab drivers or delivery workers. Do we crowdsource information about a new city when we hop into a cab? Or is it just a service they perform for us? 

With the overwhelming amount of information we can find on a regular basis, organization systems are important to us for our personal lives, work, and education. In no particular order, here's the list of systems I us. This was fun to think about! -Photos: the iPhone does a great job auto organizing and sorting photos from certain times and locations. -Twitter Bookmarks - informative posts to come back to. They can be grouped and organized. -Web Browser Bookmarks - the classic bookmark. Syncs between different phones and computers. Usually through Google Chrome. -Instagram Bookmarks - Can also be grouped. Used to organize or archive certain posts.  -Reddit Bookmarks - Bookmarking informative and relevant posts.   -Microsoft ToDo - I use a To Do list to keep track of things sometimes. What are some other tools or strategies you use to stay organized?

 Free Rider Challenge: https://alheme23.blogspot.com/2023/06/week-3-free-riders.html " We're seeing a version of the free rider problem with the rise and fall of all the streaming services. Studios have realized that these services are a money pit and are having a hard time making their money back. At the same time, customer expectations have changed. So they are tightening the content available, raising the prices, and looking for more revenue streams. The golden age of the internet is going the same way" Bloggy Blog: https://eme6414bloggyblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/linking-up.html You can try connecting with people you personally know first and taking it from there. Chaewon Kim: https://chaewon0225.blogspot.com/2023/05/week3-reading-reflection.html?sc=1685895788055#c7082684891570058334 Your unique global perspective on micro-blogging and online communication is great to have. There are billions of people using blogs and sites and services that most Westerners would never ...