I appreciate what my peers shared during this semester. I have learned a lot from them. Although ECMP 355 is a online course that we may not know each other in person, but at least we know each other online. That’s so nice. Every Thursday night we could see each other on Zoom. I like watch people chatting, discussing in the “chat box”. We are growing together! Twitter: Honestly, I was not so active on twitter, I usually “dive” and see people’s sharing and posting, but I did learn many things. At the beginning of the class, I was confused why we should use Twitter. As I started to use Twitter more often, I find I could learn so much! I followed so much educators, future educators…I can almost find everything about teaching on Twitter. People share good stuffs and resources. I love watching videos, so I shared lots videos, mostly TedTalks on Twitter. TedTalk is excellent! I inspired by those teachers and speakers. Blogs: It is really an excellent idea to allow us post blogs weekly online. I appreciate all the works my peer done throughout the whole semester. So nice to see their thoughts and sharing on their blogs. Their thought often make me feel that I should think deeper and wider. Through sharing blogging, we know more about what we were learning and think deeper about what we are doing. I usually comment with my appreciation to their work! You guys are excellent! Google Community:
I reviewed class recording video, watch people sharing, communicating, but I did not spent so much time on this tool. Thank you all for helping me grow!
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Can online social activism be meaningful and worthwhile? It depends. The development of increasing accessibility to communicate with people makes the Internet become a tool for individuals or organizations to spread their social message to the world. Activists use Internet as a tool to find people have the same or similar idea and build their community online. The key to make online social activism meaningful is making some change. For example, I find the Regina food Bank asking fro donation online, and I share it. If I just share it online without donate some food to them, then for me, the posting of the food bank is meaningless. Just think about yourself. How many times you share events, articles, and other social posting on Facebook or Twitter without read through them? I mean, many people read but no action, some even just “like” them without read through the content. It is true that online social activism can be meaningful when they got more followers and more people take actions. It could also be meaningless when people just simply “like” or transpond without reading, thinking, or making any action. Is it possible to have productive conversations about social justice online? It is possible, but hard. I often find people discuss social justice online. They comment under posts and communicate with other commenters. Sometimes, when people hold different perspectives or stand in opposite sides, they would fight online. It is because many people just want to be agree; they want people believe what they believed. People who disagree with them make them angry. Some may use bad language to attack other people online. It’s weird, but it happens. Many people read and understand social justice in a very subjective way, which may influent their perspectives and even cognition. However, we should look at social justice in an objective and rational way; avoided to have much personal emotion towards social justice. I found a nice TedTalks on YouTube teaching how to have better political conversations. |
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April 2017
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