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Can your PLN be used to help professional development post-course?

I think there is a possibility which my PLN can be used to help professional development after the course and I have several reasons. Firstly PLN is not only a platform for students to learn but also an oppotunity for students to aquire information when they are interacting and exchaning ideas with others. Students can learn plenty of knowledge which they can not learn from courses and those knowledge can help their future professions after they have taken courses due to the inclusion and diversity of PLN. Secondly, students can build and plan their future professions gradually as they are using PLN. Students do not know what they will do in the future and what they can do to make a living at first, but they will be affected by the diversed and multicultural world, which leads to an ambiguous profession planning and they will make it specific enough as they use PLN as much as possible.

Can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities?

I am afraid that PLN can not be relied on to open professional opportunities. PLN is a good learning platform for students to learn knowledge and plan their future professions, and it can also expand the view of students so that sudents can have more choices and possibility to achieve their goals. Although PLN is a helpful tool for students to succeed in the future, it is not helpful enough for students to open professional opportunities. It is necessary for students to practice in some posts and they can gain working experience which is helpful enough for them to open professional opportunities in the future. Students can experience the real environment and situations when they are working as an employee, and they will be more well-controlled when they are in the similar situation again later.

Why does this happen?

Factual information can create conflicts because there are people who can benefit from the conflict or there are something under the truth. What the media is demonstrating is what media wants people to see actually even if it is not true, which means media literacy plays an important role when people are using media to know and learn. Due to the supervision and laws, sometimes people could not see what really happens and different media companies have different ways to deal with information, which leads to a situation which people can see multiple versions of one piece of information online. It becomes easier to create conflicts among people who have seen different versions of information. Overall, what they did also creates huge amount of attention.

What is the benefit of having a PLN that values media literacy?

Media literacy can develope critical thinking and skeptical quality for people when they are using media to either learn or entertain. Furthermore, people can learn how the world works, which can help them interact with the real world better. However, people still need to remember that social media is somewhat different from the real world. People need to change their way of thinking flexibly when they interact with the social media and the real world, which is also a good quality of people.

Which social media platforms are beneficial in education?

Social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook are both beneficial and common ones for education. Those platforms have some features in common which are the key points for people who want to get education online. The first point is that those social media platforms are all easy to sign up and cheap to subscribe, which attracts more people. Secondly those platforms have huge user bases, which increases the speed of spreading. Huge user bases also stand for huge number of professions, which make the platforms more authoritative and reliable. Last one is that educators can also benefit from the platforms by writing teaching posts. They will accquire popularity and money from their posts if they are valuable and attractive, which motivates more and more people to become educators in social media.

When working with the vulnerable sector, how does social media fit into professionalism and regulations?

Security and privacy is the primary concern for social media when working with the vulneralble sectors. Due to the fast spread and leak of information, it is easy for vulnerable sectors to be exposed to the public if social media does not take good care of them. Otherwise negative comments and abuses can easily destroy anyone on the Internet. The second concern is that social media have to show its sincerity in order to persuade sectors to voluntarily work with social media.

Reflecting on how you would curate your social media with a critical public audience.

Agreement is the first and primary problem which I should solve. As a social media creator, audience is one of the most important elements I need to focus and can not lose. My social media profile will not become famous and popular unless my followers and audience are interested and satisfied with my posts. I will sometime make some small questionaire which contain questions about the expectations of my posts and style to my followers and audience, then I will adopt the ones which are mentioned the most into my posts. However, I will not listen to all the suggestions and advice, at least I can not let those advice affect my own style. It is important to create my own style and features.

Identify the risks and benefits of engaging with a public audience in a media space – What are the risks for a public figure or person in a position of trust (educator, lawyer, and government official)?

People who are in a positionof trust might be offended by their audience in social media because social media is different from the real world. People can easily talk to those poeple in social media, which violates the privacy of those people. Those people will receive much more comments than they do in real world becasue the environment of social media is more transparent than the real world.

More comments can also become the benefits. There are always some people who have great ideas and thoughts but they do not have the opportunity to present to people who are in a position of trust. Now their ideas and thoughts can easily be seen by those people in social media. And there will be more people who can contribute as much as possible in social media.

Include in your blog, how to best address negative replies and reviews which reflect your personal values?

First I will have a check on my blog posts if I have said something inappropriate, which leads to negative replies and reviews. Then I will anaylze them in order to figure out why they gave negative replies and reviews. I try to understand the diversity of the entire world so I need to keep tolerant and inclusion.

What are the benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing that understands where you are coming from with messaging that impacts the community?

A diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing can expand the horizon of audience. People who are using this type of PLN will have a totally new concept of the entire world they are living. There is only a few people who have been to many places all around the world, which means most people do have a narrow and subjective attitude when treating this world. Fortunately PLN has saved these people by connecting people from different regions and cultures, which shows them the differences and diversity of the world instead of places they are living in and people they are talking to in daily lives. The creation of PLN makes people become open and international, which has also improved the connection between opposite levels or status such as rich and poor, high and low.

The origin of people will become a tag or specialty of PLN in social media sharing. Not only it can stands for the region or country people are living in, but also represent the cultural background and the whole race of it behind it. When people are using PLN in social media sharing, it is also necessary to respect and believe their own culture. People will not respect a person who does not even love his own culture and country.

How would you create a PLN prior to engaging in a social media campaign on a topic of your choice?

Firstly I would do a research on the topic of my choice so that I can get important information of the topic, which would be a fast way for me to engage in the social media in the future.

However, doing researches is definitely not enough to totally understand a social media campaign. It is necessary to talk to people who are already in this type of social media campaign. Those people can provide more useful information than doing researches because it is real-time. Furthermore, I can also learn rules when talking with those people. Otherwise I would easily break the rules or make mistakes in the social media campaign, which is not what I expect to see.

Then it is important to learn the solid content of the social media campaign and create my own style. Learning the solid content can make me become a solid member of the campaigh instead of a rookie and it is also a good way to make socialize. Creating my own style is also part of engaging the soical media campaign, which can also be treated roles. I might have some styles and roles on the Internet, but I need to create a new one in order to engage in the social medai campaign.

Social media has extened my view of the world. It can show me plenty of places where I have never been and people who I have never met. From those places and people, I can learn that there are different culture and races of people around the world. Social media has really created a convenient way for people to know and learn diversed knowledge. Now people have so many options to know and learn that they must focus on specific areas or they will get lost in the ocean of information. In my perspective, social media caught people’s curiosity and it plays a role as a door without any lock, which means social media is not the main reason that people are addicted and lost. Curiosity is the main reason and it will grow fast, which will create more desire and motivation.

Social media has played an important role as a social script or discipline among the entire Internet. It makes people behave more careful when they are giving opinions, comments or speeches because of the diversity. People must consider multiple aspects especially the different culture and customs. They might get in trouble if they do not make an adequate consideration because their speech might be offensive to others. However, there is also inclusion and tolerance because people know well that there will be misunderstanding and ignorance from different culture and races. Social media are making people become multicultural and easier to accept and understand different values and views from different regions.

What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network?

Students are currently using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to develop their professional network. There are also some other digital platforms which are used by a few students who are looking for jobs and careers. Tools such as Office and Zoom are also digital platforms which help students develop their professional network.

What could the student consider in expanding their professional learning network?

When students are expanding their professional learning network, they could consider the safety of their personal information because as students expand deeper and further in their professional learning network, their personal information and profile are becoming more detailed and accurate, which has a risk of privacy leaking.

How does data privacy and security limit and/or promote a PLN?

On the one hand, data privacy and security make it more difficult for students to find and view online. It will take students more time and energy to search what they want or need. On the other hand, data privacy and security increase the safety of the online environment. Students could be less worried about their personal information and profile being hacked by others.

In your network, how can you create a digital identity/ reputation?

Firstly I will post my basic personal information such as date of birth, sex, nationality and so on. It is like the real world when I am going to sign up for an account. Personal information should be real and valid otherwise I will be attracted and recommended to wrong groups of people. Creating a digital identity is a process of building a new individual online. Pepole can build a different type of individual from the one they play in the real world but they need to remember their build.

Consider how an employer would respond if you applied for a job with them and they assessed your social media presence via your digital identity.

It depends on what type of social media presence it is and what type of company it is, which means whether my social media presence can create values for them. If they do not need my social medai presence then they will not consider my digital achievement.

What is a digital identity?

A digital identity is how people play roles when they are online. Internet has become a virtual world and everyone is playing his roles. There is little relationship between digital identity and real-world identity. People can create a digital identity which is similar to who they are in the real world. They can also create a digital identity which is totally different from the ones they are playing in the real world.

How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?

Personal approaches have limited affect because personal digital identity do not have too many followers and influence. They can become famous and siginificant digitial identity but it needs plenty of time and money. Compared to professional approaches, they have adequate funds and influence and they have a follower base in the real-world. It is quiet simple and easy for professional digital identity to develop online. What’s more is they can easily create waves and blizzard on the Internet using their influence and fame.

How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits?

Openess is the key point for digital identities to converge in networked publics. Although there are rules and social scripts in the real world, people can behave open-minded and tolerant when they are playing roles online because information is passing fast and broadly on the Internet. There will be more cultural conflict and disagreement, which are obstacles for digital indentity to converge in networked publics. Being open-minded can make people understand and learn different cultures and habbits in different regions where they have never been and seen.

What does it mean to network using social media?

People could think of themselves as networked individuals. People can live and learn in the network society. This intimate connection between people and technology has had a profound effect. It has changed how we seek out, access, use and store information, how we communicate, study and work together and how we create and share ideas. The way we learn has changed. Learning is not just something we do in a lecture theatre or a classroom with a tutor. It’s something we do together through our social networks, through video sharing sites, gaming networks, forums, communities and other online spaces and, of course, in person. We are at the centre of an empowering online and face-to-face network. This network is made of people, devices, information and services, which we can shape and use in order to learn at times, in places and in ways we choose and control.

How are we motivated to participate in networked publics?

This three–layered model relates the attitude of a professional learner towards networking to the actual networking skills she displays in day–to–day practice. Attitudes and skills are different types of qualities: an attitude is something of the mind, a perspective with which a person views the world; a skill is a practical, developable ability to do something. Because of this difference, it is not possible to directly link the two layers. To do so, requires two important intermediary steps in our view. The first one is the translation of this attitude in the mind to a deliberate intention. When professionals have developed an attitude of approaching their professional life and learning in a networked way, they build, maintain and activate their contacts intentionally.

The second step is to translate that intention into actions. The professional’s intention manifests itself through the activity of networking, where the professional engages in practices enabling and supporting networking. These include activating strong ties , activating weak ties , building or maintaining weak and very weak ties . The activity of networking depends on the complex skill of being able to make associations between the contact’s qualities and one’s own . This complex skill is in turn influenced by the different factors identified earlier in this article at the different phases of networking. As such, the attitude trickles down as it were to affect the professional’s actions and the required skills.

What are the risks & rewards of public communications?

In a networked age, a reasonable amount of control is not enough; control has to be absolute control. One slip-up or data leakage and whatever was once protected can easily enter into a networked public where it may enter broader databases, be aggregated with other data, and circulate. In a networked world, data is more persistent, replicable, searchable, and scalable than ever before. Trying to achieve perfect control will only lead to frustration.

If teenagers’ efforts to achieve social privacy keep their parents in the dark, they don’t stop algorithmic interpretation—and misinterpretation—of their interactions. They are still subject to advertising and personalization based on what they post and they may be rejected by colleges and have limited job opportunities based on the interpretations of machines or people. But their efforts to achieve privacy without relying on the control of information are still an important signal. Not only have the next generation not given up on privacy, but they’re actually trying to find ways to achieve privacy in networked publics.