I Think This Class is Changing Mind...

 One of my first posts in this class was me discussing my disdain for social media, and how think it has more downsides than upsides. As the semester has progress, I am starting to see more positives in social media use. 

The community norms assignment opened my eyes to how different platforms can be used to form communities that help others connect and learn about various things. Those communities can be focused on one topic, or can be focused on multiple. This week's topics showed me how these platforms and communities can also be used for performance support and professional development, i.e teachergram. Learning about network knowledge activities, also showed me just how intentional users can be and should be online if they want to use these platforms for educational purposes. We all have the power to collect, curate, consumer and share whatever we think is important and beneficial.

Like many things, social media is what you make it. It's clear that if users have the desire to learn using these platforms, they just have to be intentional. Intentional about how they follow, the tags they view, the information they collect, and etc.