While creating my resident-visitor map, I really struggled to find things to populate the resident side of the tension pair. I rarely engage with social media, and when I do I’m never posting, only browsing a link that was sent to me. I don’t leave reviews, comments or other digital footprints outside of messages and emails. I play games, stream video and search maps daily, but only Google has access to those records. I have a LinkedIn account that hasn’t been updated since Covid. You might however find me on a zoom recording somewhere.
An alternative tension pair that turns this map upside down is the Individual-collaborative model displayed by Dave Cormier in his blog “Digital Practices Mapping – Intro activity for digital literacies course”. Most of the things that do leave a digital footprint are collaborations, from lesson plans to travel itineraries, collaborations are the predominants populating my resident space.
I started poking around the Virtual Symposium a little ahead of LRNT521 when I learned that we would need to watch 2 videos from 2017. The links provided had Dave Cormier’s video first and Catherine Cronin’s video linked second. So I watched them in that order. When the class schedule came out I saw they had Catherine’s video on the first day but having watched both, I felt that Dave was the better choice to begin our very first class.
Catherine’s presentation was good, it provided an overview about how open platforms environments allow for inclusion, participation and social change.. valuable information and I appreciate that it is required learning for this unit. I personally took a lot from Vivian Forssman’s talk in the second hour of the video, about the backend of running a primarily online institution. I admire how in 2017 she understood that somebody would be listening in 2023 and greeted us accordingly (59:00). That’s wisdom I can incorporate as I write my very first post, and when I reflect on how society has changed advanced since 2014.
I believe Dave’s presentation should be viewed first; not because it was better or worse, the audio quality on both recordings was painfully bad by 2023 standards, but rather because it did a better job of introducing the broadness of our current landscape as we embark on this adventure in learning. I come to explore distributing curriculum at scale but have already been inspired by Porter Forssman to consider an applied research project with the purpose of getting micro credentials recognized federally across Canada and integrated on a blockchain for digital verification. Upon graduation that could expand in scope to include credentialled designations such as Red Seal or PhD as well. It would create entirely new jobs that didn’t exist before. If nothing else, it would position one well to approach LinkedIn and see if they would implement a comparable project on a global scale. The point is that I have no idea where this journey is going to take me. I’m committed to completing the program and acquiring the credentials that come with it but beyond that, I’m open to whatever comes next.
To my cohort, I’m well aware this is a personal reflection and not academic writing. I’ll get there for the formal deliverables but I also need a space where I can publish my thoughts and have my ideas challenged and/or validated. As such, I’m not listing this the LRNT521 feed but rather the LRNT LINK as I learn to play with RSS. We all have our own unique perspective and thoughts on the symposium videos, I hope you will share some of yours as well.
Great post Matt and excellent work on theoretical frameworks. As you consider which one to use as the TF keep…