Another great opportunity for the 2016-17 school year has opened up for me! I’m currently taking my 3rd Research Methods & Statistics course, and through my professor, I have been invited to participate in independent (and funded!) research. The opportunity to conduct research as an undergraduate is such an honor, and to have been singled […]
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My professional goals permeate throughout my experiences in college in several ways. My engagement in the campus community certainly reflects these goals, but also showcases how passionate I am about higher education in general. It has been one of my dreams for many years to be a Resident Assistant. I truly feel that this position […]
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The end of my semester has arrived, bringing with it the end of my experience in University 349. So I’ll be taking this time to reflect on what I’ve learned over the semester and how my ideas on digital citizenship have changed. you When I entered this class, I was more apprehensive about the format than the…
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This week in #Univ349DC, we go back to basics in a sense and discuss what it means to be a good digital citizen in education. The 13 weeks that have passed since embarking on this journey has increased my knowledge base and level of understanding of digital citizenship, so I hope to have a few…
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In my previous posts, that explored college tuition costs over social media, I focused on Twitter for engagement purposes and while I have found various resources and have posted extensively, I felt that it was time to switch gears. Through my Twitter feed, I discovered the hashtag #MillionStudentMarch and learned about an active campaign that is protesting…
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This week on Twitter, I deviated from engaging with the 2016 presidential candidates of last week’s post as it hasn’t panned out for me so far. I will return to that avenue because I still think it would be really cool to get a response from one of them, but in order, to really engage, one…
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This week in #UNIV349DC we are looking to truly engage in social issues online by being active participants. With college tuition being a hot topic for the upcoming election but in few other places, I have decided to engage with the politicians who will potentially be making decisions regarding the costs of college in the
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In my Lurking – Talking Tuition post last week, I addressed the usefulness of lurking on social media to find useful, live information on any topic, but in this case specifically, college tuition. I found a good deal of people discussing the same major articles on both Facebook and Twitter, and found that to continue to be
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This week in #Univ349DC we are examining another aspect of digital citizenship – lurking. The word and action of lurking have been associated negatively since they came into use, but lurking can be an effective way to find and filter knowledge without becoming caught up in the politics of it all. Participatory culture online encourages
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Good digital citizens “use the internet regularly and effectively,” according to the authors of the book Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation. By that definition, I think that most of us have some work to do on becoming better digital citizens. This post is the 3rd in a series that will target research on rising tuition costs
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