Week 6 in Review: Networked Knowledge Activities

This week in class we focused on networked knowledge activities, which consist of collecting, curating, sharing, brokering, negotiating, and constructing. These past six weeks, we have experimented with a lot of tools that help us complete these activities, one of which being Pinterest. For the next assignment that we are completing, which is the knowledge sharing/tracking assignment, I have decided to transfer a board from my personal Pinterest account to a business account and analyze how others interact with the board. As I said in another blog post this week, I have done something similar for an assignment last summer in EME6356 - Learning and Web Analytics but I used Sprout Social instead of the analytics built into a social media site so I am looking forward to trying something new.

So far, I have to say that I think my favorite of the tools that we have been introduced to in this course have been Twitter and Diigo. Now that I am using Twitter in more of a professional manner, I am enjoying it a lot more than I did when I used it in undergrad; it used to just stress me out constantly but now it doesn't. Keeping up with what is going on with my field, my classmates, my instructors, and higher education in general has been enjoyable. I can also really see the possibilities for personal use with Diigo. I have taken a look at some of the resources my classmates have shared in our class Diigo group as well and they look useful. I have not taken a look at Mendeley yet but I have been meaning to because it seems helpful too, so hopefully I can do that either this evening or tomorrow.

Halfway through the semester now, woo! Hoping to finish it strong!

Image from Dr. Dennen's presentation on Slide Share, "Using Social Media to Support Active Learning Processes: The Networked Knowledge Activity Framework"

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