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

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

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 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

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

I am taking a class on Learning and Web Analytics. One of my projects was to create a data story with some kind of data that was meaningful to me. I used MyFitnessPal to track my nutritional intake. In the same class, we are to analyze a tool and create a presentation on it. We

Why I Decided to Start A PhD Why did I decide to start a PhD? Sometimes doors open for reasons unclear to us. We are faced with a path of random events leading us to some milestone in life. From this milestone, we can then look back and appreciate the series of events and the