I was not sure what form this class would take, and even what we would be covering. I thought it might potentially be about the latest trends in social networking (including the latest technological trends that support social media), but I was also open to whatever. In some ways, social media is morphing and developing so rapidly every day that it's hard to keep up and speak in generalities, but there are available up-to-the-minute stats. Perhaps that's not the overall objective/goal of this class. If I had to create my own objectives? Here they are:
- Make the most of my interactions (social networking!) with professor/classmates
- Informally pick up tips about how social media is used in the classroom (I'm not a teacher, per se)
- Take this time to do my own extracurricular reading on the latest trends in social media (that I've been wanting to do)
- Learn new technological skills where I can
- Gain a deeper understanding how social media fits in to the classic principles and evolution of the discipline of Media Literacy Education
Thanks Helena-
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the ever-changing nature of things. It's funny how we give things names, whereas they are just continuations of other things - the web was on the network, the network was digtal wires, the wires were phone, then before that telegraph, and before that railroads and mail routes, and so on.
Isn't ALL media social? After all, it's for mass consumption- that's what makes it media, right? It's never ending...
d.i.