Weekly Report & Reflection #8

Hello everyone!

The collaboration tool that I explored this week was a tool used by many, wikis! I used to think negatively about using wikis to support learning because I have always been told to never cite Wikipedia as a source. However, for personal curiosities I would always look for answers on Wikipedia and learn a lot. I think because a wiki can be edited by just about anyone gives it both advantages and disadvantages. I think the advantage of wikis is the sharing of information between such a large range of people. I also enjoy the way that we use wikis in this course to share our blog, twitter, pinterest, e-mails, etc. I've also noticed how careful you must be not to accidentally delete what others have shared! As for a disadvantage, the greatest disadvantage I think we all can agree on would be the credibility of the information that is being shared. People could type incorrect or improper information on wikis. With this being said, I think wikis are a great hub of information but once reading something, I suggest to look elsewhere to verify the information you have found. This reminds me week 4 when we learned about the importance of the reliability and validity of sources we use online. Maybe when using wikis you can try out the methods we learned about which are the TRASH, or Internet Detective method. 

The blog post Wikis- wickedly clever, underused learning tool expresses the vast potential that wikis have to support learning. What I found most appealing about this blog was suggesting students to participate on Wikipedia and identify where it lacks credibility and actually edit the wiki to improve its weaknesses. I've only ever used this wiki for research, actually collaborating and editing sounds very intriguing! Have any of you contributed to Wikipedia? 

Polecrone, B. (CC) 2016.

Another topic we explored this week was Digital Rights and Responsibilities. Rights and responsibilities are fundamentals that every individual holds in a society. This holds true for a digital society as well. As digital citizens, when we act in a digital society we hold various rights and responsibilities. This diagram that I created using the tool Popplet depicts the multiple rights and responsibilities that I became aware of throughout the completion of this weeks learning activities. I think that all individuals must respect these fundamentals in order to become a reliable digital citizen. Having the knowledge of these rights and responsibilities can help people build their digital dossier in a positive way and help others act accordingly. I think the greatest takeaway from this course is purely informing students like myself to not be naive to the responsibility humans have living and acting in a digital world. 

My Feedly read this week did not disappoint; it never does! This week I stumbled upon a great read yet again. Lately I've been thinking about what I'm going to do next year when I graduate, and eventually the thought of interviews popped in my head. I don't have much experience with interviews so I found this article very appealing. Obviously in an interview you want to stand out from others who are going for the same position. The article Saying you're passionate is pretty cliche- go with this instead gives great ideas of alternative ways to express yourself and rephrase the typical lines interviewers hear all the time! Do any of you have interview experience? Do you have any suggestions on how to prepare?