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Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Just a little bit of humor for you ...
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Doing the LinkedIn Thing
ISLT EdD student Jason Harle is a total LinkedIn Guru.
Here's a post he wrote recently about getting more active on LinkedIn.
- post publications and presentations (but only once per conference for presentations, even if I do multiple)
- post about my upcoming keynotes
- post about my students who successfully defend a dissertation (I did this recently; skipped the other one because they weren't connected to me on LinkedIn for me to tag them)
- Leave at least 3 likes somewhere on there per weekday
Padlet and Miro in the Business World
I had a little side convo with a class member in which the question about how Padlet and Miro might be used in the business world was raised. And I thought others might wonder the same thing, so let me blog about that!
Miro
Padlet
IMHO, this is the more non-business environment of the two tools, mostly owing to look and feel, but that could also be my impression based on having seen more use cases in K-12 and higher ed. Also, I think they market more to education settings.
BUT: I've seen it used in business settings for resource sharing, interactions during training (capturing ideas/group brainstorms), project management, etc.
The ISLT faculty use it all the time -- it's flexible enough to support a running agenda for our faculty meetings and allows us to link in necessary documents.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Instagram Days of the Week Challenge (Ultimate Challenge Week 3)
Heads up!
For Week 3 of the Ultimate Challenge, we'll do the Instagram Days of the Week Challenge.
This challenge is designed to stretch your Instagram knowledge and skills a little bit. If you want to participate and don't want it to appear in your regular account, create a new account! Easy enough.
Remember, tag things with #eme6414 so we see it. Also save evidence of your contributions to share at the end. Oh, and Instagram offers help if you need it: https://help.instagram.com/
TechMotivation Monday
#motivationmonday is a thing, but let's motivate people with technology. Share a post that motivates people to use a specific technology or to use it better.
Hashtags: #eme6414 #TechMotivationMonday
TechTransformation Tuesday
Choose your format (post / story / reel) and share how technology has transformed a part of life (your own or life in general).
Hashtags: #eme6414 #TechTransformationTuesday
TechWisdom Wednesday
Post a reel in which you share some form of technology wisdom (interpret that as you will).
Hashtags: #eme6414 #TechWisdomWednesday
TechResearch Thursday
Create and share an infographic (as simple or complex as you like) with interesting internet research summarized. Be sure to include attribution to the study!
Hashtags: #eme6414 #TechResearchThursday
FindOut Friday
Post a poll (you do this via stories, in the stickers) that asks some sort of technology or social media related question.
Hashtags: #eme6414 #FindOutFriday
Saturday Stories
Post a story or multi-image post that sums up your challenge contributions
Hashtags: #eme6414 #SaturdayStories
SumItUp Sunday
No need to post to Instagram this day. Write a blog post that reviews your daily Instagram activities for the challenge and your new insights on the medium.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Random Fun // Wikipedia
Today on LinkedIn I saw someone post (brag, really) about their new Wikipedia entry. I thought "hmmmm" and checked it out. I was surprised to see that they had a Wikipedia entry. I know enough about Wikipedia to know that you can't create your own entry, but you can suggest it to Wikipedia editors and see if you can get them to undertake it. I also know that you need to have a certain level of accomplishment in your field. (My father-in-law has a Wikipedia entry)
Somehow that got me to wondering what my Wikipedia entry might look like if I had one. I asked ChatGPT to create one for me. It's not entirely correct, but it's nice to see that ChatGPT thinks I have enough notoriety as a scholar to warrant a Wikipedia entry.
If you want to see it, look below the fold.
Monday, 16 June 2025
I earned a badge, should I share it?
Badges are all around once you start looking for them.
Some of us don’t notice, or don’t care. Often that’s me. I know what I accomplished and I’ve no idea what I’ll do with the badge. Sometimes I get in a MOOD and want to be silly with such things, like the time I saved up paper “certificates of attendance” from a number of conferences and hung them up in my office. I thought that was funny (I have received them at international conferences, and it seems to be important to some attendees as proof to their institution that they were there).
I’m flying home from a conference today, a conference where I gave a talk. I noted that I received a digital badge through the conference platform (Whova … and that’s a whole post I could write)
Here it is! Should I share it elsewhere? Should I post it to my LinkedIn and see what happens? I mean, the platform provided tools to share it to socials — that’s the whole point, right?
I typically present a at 5-7 conferences a year, so at this point it doesn’t feel like a big deal to me. I list it on my CV, and move onward. It’s just another requirement of my job. I might have found it special the first time or tow.
But I actually have a bigger question for y’all. Please feel free to weigh in here.
This time last year I embarked on a journey to become a leadership and performance coach. There are many whys for doing so, and I’m happy to share, but most importantly let me state that I am not leaving my job at FSU and switching careers.
I worked hard for my Level 1 certification, which I earned in March. I’m now working toward ACC level certification (need to get about 25 more coaching hours for that — I can coach students as part of my job at FSU and count the hours, so feel free to HMU if you want to try it).
Anyway, I got a badge and digital certificate when I completed my Level 1. I’m also really proud of my accomplishment. To me, this is much more meaningful than celebrating another conference talk.
When I finished Level 1 and got the badge, it was a super hectic time. I told myself I would update my web site for coaching and then share the badge on LinkedIn. I’ve not done that yet. Is it too late? Is it silly of me to even think about sharing this? Or should I go ahead and do it?
Social Media Fiction Challenge (I did it, too!)
I read a YA book for the social media fiction challenge.
Should I award myself a badge?I chose The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler [on Goodreads]
This book was about a teenage girl who had just received a computer .. and her friend next door, who brought over an AOL CD-ROM. Yup, it’s set in the early 1990s, and the main characters use dialup to log in to AOL. How does this relate to social media? Well, through AOL they find a secret portal to a ‘website” called Facebook that shows them the future. Like, 15 years into the future. And they are confused (is it a scam? A virus? Is someone pranking them?). Over the course of a week they check in on their future selves, gleaning details of their adult lives through posts, relationship status, friend lists, etc. And when they don’t like what they see, they start to realize that they can make small changes in the present that affect what they see of the future on Facebook. They know they shouldn’t, but they can’t help themselves. I’ll stop short of giving spoilers, and just say that it’s an interesting view of how we provide information on Facebook.
Great fiction it isn’t. But it’s an easy and charming read.