As we begin our 3rd week of EME 6414, I feel less overwhelmed but satisfied with my learning experience so far. The tools I explored last week were Instagram, Reddit, SnapChat, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Out of the five, I'm more familiar (and a fan of) Instagram, SnapChat, and YouTube. However, as I explained in previous posts, I've become more interested with LinkedIn for networking purposes and can identify many reasons of why one would want to use it. It has great connection/networking benefits in that it makes it easy to locate people with similar backgrounds, interests, or experiences.
I've utilized YouTube before, but enjoyed the specialized topics geared towards EME 6414 as well as the questions.
I think the social media site I enjoyed the least was Reddit. I was immediately overwhelmed because the topics were all over the place. However, after using some of the search features, I realize that it could be a helpful tool in identifying similar interests among people, posting helpful tips or instructions, or connecting with others. For fun, I searched "EME 6414" and found a discussion thread for "Relay for Life". It was a year or so old, but it was interesting to find at least one search result. To me, this demonstrated that it's likely there's a topic (or similar topic) out there on this site.
Diving into this week, I look forward to the other tools we'll be testing, and even more so on the community paper we're all writing. I bid you all good luck this week and am excited to see your discoveries as well!
Disclaimer: Typically this would be done at the end of the week, but my week was so hectic I wasn't able to collect my thoughts and post them last night.
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