Reflecting on my online digital presence before and after the pandemic, I noticed that it has altered how I choose to interact on and offline with friends, family, colleagues and students. Before the pandemic most of my organizational relationships were completely face-to-face or through email. At the start of the pandemic within the span of a week everything went completely online. Our organization didn’t have the technology, infrastructure or training so it was crisis learning at its best and worst. Our board made most of the choices as to how our members interacted professionally online. In my personal sphere I had always had a very large digital footprint. The pandemic changed everything and this was compounded by the news in America. It was disheartening. Invasive surveillance, algorithms that had discrimination built in and fake news that had me disillusioned and questioning my...

  I am still processing so much and trying to make sense of the excellently curated readings for unit two. After looking at my map, I tried to make sense of it and what it meant to me. The three spaces I spend a lot of time in that are represented on my map are Teams, Instagram and Google Docs. Teams is a messaging app, and a workspace for real-time coaction and communication via video, teams and chat functions for meetings and lessons. Instagram is a photo-sharing app which lets users apply filters to photos and share them with friends, family and followers. Users can also link their accounts to other social media networks. Lastly, Google Docs, is a potent, living collaborative tool that can be used to edit text. More than one person can edit the text while seeing others’ edits simultaneously.  My perception and understanding of what social media is has altered through engaging...