{"id":158,"date":"2024-04-30T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/?p=158"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:21:28","slug":"visual-network-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/visual-network-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Network Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this post, I present my professional network map, focusing on professional development. My goal was to map my current professional networks to compare them in a month and assess how networking on LinkedIn has impacted my professional connections. The map includes my professional and educational networks from where I have worked and studied. These institutions have been instrumental in my development as a primary school educator over the past 10+ years. I excluded my social and digital networks to maintain clarity and emphasize my professional journey and contacts within those networks. Below, you’ll find an overview of my map, created using Kumu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In creating this map, I can clearly see that I keep all my networks separate and do not engage in professional networks beyond them. This separation is partly because each network was built in a different country, with five out of the four networks being in completely different countries. This immediately reduces the chance of overlap between connections since I tend to keep my networks distinct. This is in stark contrast to my natural tendency to connect people and bring my social communities together. It was a subconscious choice rather than a conscious one to keep my networks so separate. I can see that this may be a challenge for me in the future if I continue this pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All my networks are education-based, either as a student at an institution or working as an educator. This means that I have few professional contacts outside the realm of education, and none of my educator contacts overlap. I consider my professional network map a work in progress as I now intentionally begin to make more connections outside the teaching K-12 network and into digital teaching and instructional design in various fields, not just education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNetworking is a lot like nutrition and fitness: we know what to do, the hard part is making it a top priority.\u201d<\/p>\nHerminia Ibarra<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I can see a clear goal during the course of my MALAT journey will be making this a top priority. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this post, I present my professional network map, focusing on professional development. My goal was to map my current professional networks to compare them in a month and assess how networking on LinkedIn has impacted my professional connections. The map includes my professional and educational networks from where I have worked and studied. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt521"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru299\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}