What Should I Do While Visiting Chicago – Michigan Ave?

After moving away from Indiana in 2006, I regularly would fly into and out of Chicago to visit back home. I loved Chicago so much that I usually made sure to travel into the city to meet friends or alone to take it all in. Flying in and out of Chicago was so much fun

What Is Up With All of These Intelligences?

Just this last week, I heard 2 new terms: Collective Intelligence and Connective Intelligence. Trying to make sense of these new terms, I naturally started to consider the other types of intelligence “terms” I have learned about over the years so I can figure out where these new terms fit in, or if they even

Are You a Part of My Network or One of My Communities?

I found the best way for me to compare and contrast the term community with the term network was to figure out how each term applied to my life. The following is my attempt to flesh out the differences in who I consider my network vs. who I consider community. It seems as if my

Organizations Looking To Use Social Media and How To Prepare with the Honeycomb

Social Media, The 4Cs, and the Honeycomb 7 Building Blocks The following video, published by Ian McCarthy in 2013 on YouTube is a great overview of the content being shared in this blog. The blog and YouTube video are both inspiration from the Book: Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social

“I am not presentable for live video right now…”

In my Web 2.0 class, we are discussing the use of social media in learning contexts. Whenever I think of learning and social media or learning online, I always start to come back to wondering what the potential uses for live video are that we are not utilizing. Is it possible that we are robbing

Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0: Where does social media fit in?

Web 2.0? When you hear someone talk about Web 2.0, what comes to mind? Do you have a definition for it? I always thought that I knew what Web 2.0 was but once it came time to try to define it, I was at a loss for words. I would have usually thought that Web

How Do You Use Social Media to Learn?

What comes to mind when you think of learning? I imagine that most of us probably envision a typical classroom with an instructor/facilitator or maybe you envision on online class. How many times do you envision social media? Say, what?! That used to be me, I did not usually think about social media use for