Reflect on your experience in the course, your development of PLN, your use of social media platforms and networked publics, any changes in your perspective of social media in professional settings and personal use.
I think that this course has helped me to understand why it is important for everyone to have a PLN and to use social media as an advantage to learn more and communicate better. Before I took this class, I had some experience in using PLN for work, however, this class has helped me realize how to better utilize social media and how to strengthen my PLN. Additionally, it has made me realize that I can create PLNs for different things, not just work and school, and that it can be useful for hobbies and other extracurricular activities. Before taking this course, I had considered social media to only be beneficial if you compartmentalized social media by having a work account, and a personal account. I now realize that you don’t necessarily have to do this there are some lines of work that your personal life that plays an important part in your professional life, such as artists. I do think that you still should be cautious about what you post, and who is able to see your posts, but it is important for people to get to know you and get to know how to better connect with you. I have also realized that I really need to build my PLN, especially in University while I have access to multiple resources and have students in my classes that are interested in similar subjects. I think that connecting with more people both in person and on social media that help me expand my PLN so that when I graduate I will have more connections to other people, and when I am getting hired for a job my connections are seen as an asset.