Tell me specifically:
(a) what network did you join?
I joined the Twitter network. Twitter is a social network and miniblogging site that allows for users to send and receive messages that are known are tweets.
(b) who are you following and what do they do for a living?
The majority of the people I am following are friends of mine who I either go to college with, went to high school with or have met along the way. Aside from following friends, I also follow informational sources, celebrities and organizations. Some of the information sources that I follow are The Miami Herald, CNN, The Gainesville Sun, The Alligator, OMGfcats and Barack Obama. Some of the celebrities I follow consist of John Mayer, Chad Ochocinco, Chelsea Lately, Dwayne Wade and The Miami Heat. And some of the organizations I follow are Public Relations Student Society of America(PRSSA), Gamma Eta (a multicultural sorority) and the Outrigger Hawaii.
(c) describe a conversation that you engaged in, e.g., what did you talk about?
A conversation that I was engaged in was set up by PRSSA. The chat was titled #ufprchat.
Here were the rules:
1. Include #ufprchat in every single tweet
2. On first use of the #ufprchat tag, introduce yourself using your
first and last name.
3. Stay on topic. Add "Q1" to represent the question number at the
beginning of your tweet. Include #ufprchat in your tweet.
4. Respect others.
5. Submit questions to Adrienne Browne (@msgatoradr) without the
hashtag #ufprchat.
6. No Florida State fans.
The chat was set up to connect alumni from PRSSA and the College of Journalism and Communication to current students and student who are graduating this semester. The main topic discussed during the chat was about how social media has changed and effected the public relations field. It was also any ones chance to ask alumni for advice or questions. I asked for tips on taking reporting (one of our colleges hardest classes).
(d) what did you learn from this process? Is this something you might find useful as a teacher?
One of the things I learned in this process was the power of social media and how effective social media's power is with communicating. I also learned good tips about the use of social media and how to brand yourself within its images for clients and the business world. This chat was a way of networking for me. I also learned that most alumni have found that teachers and adults have no idea how to use social media or incorporate it into their education. I found this very useful and would definitely encourage my students to partake in a chat as part of an assignment or project.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Social Action & Communication Skills
http://www.takepart.com/actions/play-for-safe-water-play-freepovertycom/133892
This site is best for students taking geography (6th graders), students in high school and college. The Web site encourages some type of action to take place to get people to donate healthy water to countries with a high poverty level. It contains a game that has the world map. The Web site gives you a location such as Rome, Italy and asks that you locate it. The closer you get to the location the more cups of water the Web site will donate to a country of poverty. This activity could be used for teaching students about geography and real-world poverty issues/concerns.
http://socialworkaction.blogspot.com/
This site is best for students either in high school or college who are taking some kind of government or economics class. The Web site is a blog that discusses social actions that are taking place in the United States government. It is a good use of reference for teaching students about the government and economics. It is also good to show students how to blog and to share information, specifically information about social action.
http://www.takepart.com/issues/education-reform/13734
This Web site is specific toward education actions. There are videos, links to be able to tweet a statistic that is give on the site, links to donate and other informational texts. However, the takepart.com Web site is a site that encourages action to be taken for a huge range of issues from Environment to Social Welfare issues. This Web site can be best for any range of students as long as they know how to read somewhat detailed text and can comprehend the subject manner. Teachers can use this Web site to relate to basically any subject or content area that is being discussed in class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbNbmVLvkU
This video site is best for students at the middle school level. Middle school and be a tough time, especially for trying to communicate to one's parents, friends or school teachers. This video breaks down very simply concepts but states the information in such an easy way to understand. Teachers can use this video to teach students how to resolve conflicts. Teachers can also use this video to teach how to effectively give a speech or presentation to a class.
http://www.speakeasyinc.com/
This site is best for students in the business field. Middle schools and high schools tend to offer business classes and then of course once you reach the college level there is a whole college for business. The Web site discusses how important communication is within the business sector and how it is a key component to success. This site can be used as reference guide when discussing and teaching about communication skills. This site can also be shown as an example of how to incorporate key business skills with communication tactics.
http://stress.about.com/od/relationships/ht/healthycomm.htm
This site is best for students in high school because the depth of information may not be understood by those any younger. This site can be used by teachers to learn how to effectively communicate with their students. The site can also be used by students to study these concepts for classes that deal with communication skills (such as interpersonal communication skills at UF). This is another good communication Web site to use as a reference because it lists 10 ways to communicate effectively and then a range of tips to keep in mind.
This site is best for students taking geography (6th graders), students in high school and college. The Web site encourages some type of action to take place to get people to donate healthy water to countries with a high poverty level. It contains a game that has the world map. The Web site gives you a location such as Rome, Italy and asks that you locate it. The closer you get to the location the more cups of water the Web site will donate to a country of poverty. This activity could be used for teaching students about geography and real-world poverty issues/concerns.
http://socialworkaction.blogspot.com/
This site is best for students either in high school or college who are taking some kind of government or economics class. The Web site is a blog that discusses social actions that are taking place in the United States government. It is a good use of reference for teaching students about the government and economics. It is also good to show students how to blog and to share information, specifically information about social action.
http://www.takepart.com/issues/education-reform/13734
This Web site is specific toward education actions. There are videos, links to be able to tweet a statistic that is give on the site, links to donate and other informational texts. However, the takepart.com Web site is a site that encourages action to be taken for a huge range of issues from Environment to Social Welfare issues. This Web site can be best for any range of students as long as they know how to read somewhat detailed text and can comprehend the subject manner. Teachers can use this Web site to relate to basically any subject or content area that is being discussed in class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbNbmVLvkU
This video site is best for students at the middle school level. Middle school and be a tough time, especially for trying to communicate to one's parents, friends or school teachers. This video breaks down very simply concepts but states the information in such an easy way to understand. Teachers can use this video to teach students how to resolve conflicts. Teachers can also use this video to teach how to effectively give a speech or presentation to a class.
http://www.speakeasyinc.com/
This site is best for students in the business field. Middle schools and high schools tend to offer business classes and then of course once you reach the college level there is a whole college for business. The Web site discusses how important communication is within the business sector and how it is a key component to success. This site can be used as reference guide when discussing and teaching about communication skills. This site can also be shown as an example of how to incorporate key business skills with communication tactics.
http://stress.about.com/od/relationships/ht/healthycomm.htm
This site is best for students in high school because the depth of information may not be understood by those any younger. This site can be used by teachers to learn how to effectively communicate with their students. The site can also be used by students to study these concepts for classes that deal with communication skills (such as interpersonal communication skills at UF). This is another good communication Web site to use as a reference because it lists 10 ways to communicate effectively and then a range of tips to keep in mind.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Curiosity, Imagination, Creativity, & Play
KNOW:
Curiosity is an emotion. Curiosity is the feeling of wonder and inquisition to learn or discover new things.
Imagination is the mind thinking about thinking in a fantasy world. Imagination can be used to enhance learning and allows for the mind to create pictures.
Creativity is the mind exploring all aspects of a concept and putting those aspects to use in an unordinary and banal way.
Play is the act of enjoying what one is doing or having fun. Play corresponds to activities.
WANT:
I know that curiosity is most commonly found in humans and from firsthand experience I know that cats are also very curious. What other animals or creatures are highly curious?
When does imagination and reality co-exist? Is there even an exact answer or is it merely an interpretation?
What dictates creativity? Something that is creative to one person may not be as creative to another.
Are humans the only beings who are creative?
What is an example of something that is not considered to be “play”?
How do these four terms help to teach students how to learn new things? How can playing help students to learn?
LEARN:
Creativity should be treated as important as critical literacy is treated. If you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original. Creativity allows for children to take a chance. But as children become adults they lose that creativity. Dance, art, and music are all ways to express creativity but in public schools those subjects are slowly being taken away. Math, English and Science is what is stressed in the public school system. All of which are important but when the creative subjects are offered then students begin to lose their creative sense. The first video made a statement that said something about if all the insects on Earth were to disappear, every life form would disappear within 50 years but if humans were to disappear all other forms of life would prosper. I think that this could possibly answer my question about what creatures are curious. I think all creatures are curious, but on different levels and some levels that humans can’t understand. In order to appreciate the concept of failure, I think that one must have a good sense of imagination in order to see the benefits of failure. Embracing one’s imagination deals with allows to views things from more than one point of view and being able to empathize with people instead of being so closed minded that one sees life solely from one’s own perspective. There is a huge variety of play. Nobody can dictate what play is because play is something different to every person. Humans are not the only ones who play. Animals play also. The beginning point of play is the first time one finds joy. Play does not have a particular purpose. Plays purpose should not be more important than the act of doing it, if it is then it is not play. Play triggers the brain and helps memory development.
Curiosity is an emotion. Curiosity is the feeling of wonder and inquisition to learn or discover new things.
Imagination is the mind thinking about thinking in a fantasy world. Imagination can be used to enhance learning and allows for the mind to create pictures.
Creativity is the mind exploring all aspects of a concept and putting those aspects to use in an unordinary and banal way.
Play is the act of enjoying what one is doing or having fun. Play corresponds to activities.
WANT:
I know that curiosity is most commonly found in humans and from firsthand experience I know that cats are also very curious. What other animals or creatures are highly curious?
When does imagination and reality co-exist? Is there even an exact answer or is it merely an interpretation?
What dictates creativity? Something that is creative to one person may not be as creative to another.
Are humans the only beings who are creative?
What is an example of something that is not considered to be “play”?
How do these four terms help to teach students how to learn new things? How can playing help students to learn?
LEARN:
Creativity should be treated as important as critical literacy is treated. If you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original. Creativity allows for children to take a chance. But as children become adults they lose that creativity. Dance, art, and music are all ways to express creativity but in public schools those subjects are slowly being taken away. Math, English and Science is what is stressed in the public school system. All of which are important but when the creative subjects are offered then students begin to lose their creative sense. The first video made a statement that said something about if all the insects on Earth were to disappear, every life form would disappear within 50 years but if humans were to disappear all other forms of life would prosper. I think that this could possibly answer my question about what creatures are curious. I think all creatures are curious, but on different levels and some levels that humans can’t understand. In order to appreciate the concept of failure, I think that one must have a good sense of imagination in order to see the benefits of failure. Embracing one’s imagination deals with allows to views things from more than one point of view and being able to empathize with people instead of being so closed minded that one sees life solely from one’s own perspective. There is a huge variety of play. Nobody can dictate what play is because play is something different to every person. Humans are not the only ones who play. Animals play also. The beginning point of play is the first time one finds joy. Play does not have a particular purpose. Plays purpose should not be more important than the act of doing it, if it is then it is not play. Play triggers the brain and helps memory development.
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