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Hello Everyone and Happy Monday!<\/b><\/p>\n\n
Welcome to Week #2 of our LRNT 521 course! This week begins\nour formal work together, so I wanted to provide some information to help us\nbuild a shared understanding of the course and the activities we will engage in\nover the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n
No doubt you have already been exploring our\u00a0course WordPress site<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0during\nWeek #1 while attending the Virtual Symposium, but I wanted to post here to get\nus started and make sure that you could find where the\u00a0Instructor\nPosts\u00a0appear on our course site. You will also find a copy of this message\n(and all weekly messages) in the\u00a0LRNT 521 Moodle Companion Shell News\nBulletin forum<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0and they will be emailed to your RRU email.<\/p>\n\n Course Blogs:<\/b>\u00a0Throughout the course I will be\nposting news as well as provocations for us to discuss framed around our\nreadings on our course blog. You can add a comment to reply to the course blog\nby scrolling down to the bottom of the page for each of the course units and\nengaging in the conversation. You may also choose to share a link to your own\nblog site where you may have a post that speaks to an aspect of what we are\ndiscussing as well.<\/p>\n\n I have been enjoying reading through some of the initial\npersonal blog posts and reflections that have been posted and will comment on\nall over the next few days as you have a chance to get your personal Wordpress blogs\nset up. Don\u2019t worry if you have not yet figured everything out in working with\nyour blog\u2014part of LRNT 521 is about getting comfortable with this platform.\nJust get started and let me know if you need support in getting set up.<\/p>\n\n Throughout the remainder of our time together, I will\nmonitor the blogs and occasionally post comments where I see an opportunity to\nadd to the conversation. I encourage everyone to likewise read and comment on\neach others' posts as appropriate to develop our learning community and\nespecially to complete the requirements of the learning activities.<\/p>\n\n Getting Oriented<\/b><\/p>\n\n 1. Your first stop as you get oriented to the course should\nbe the\u00a0Schedule<\/span><\/b><\/a>. As\nmentioned in the Link Closing session, you will want to review the schedule and\nmap the due dates and activities against your work and personal calendars and\ncommitments, ensuring that you have created time to do the work prior to the\ndeadline. Past students have commented on the need to build in time for doing\nthe work as well as completing an edit and revision cycle on your writing prior\nto submitting.<\/p>\n\n 2. If you have not yet had the opportunity, check out\nthe\u00a0Course Overview<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0video,\nwhere Dr. Elizabeth Childs explains how the course is set up and shows you what\nis in each area. The navigation and structure of the course sites are\nconsistent throughout the program so learning how to navigate the course site\nwill be helpful.<\/p>\n\n First Synchronous Session<\/b><\/p>\n\n Tomorrow, Tue, Apr 14, at 5:30 pm PT is our initial\nsynchronous session<\/b>. All of our sessions are at the same link, found in\nthe\u00a0Zoom\nSection<\/b><\/a>\u00a0of the Moodle site - just click the large START MEETING\nbutton. Our team coach, Sarah Hyams, will join us at the start of the session to\nprovide additional information of the team coaching function and the team\nagreement activity embedded within the course. Please have a look in Moodle to\nfind your team\/group designation. We will spend the remainder of the session\nreviewing the course\u00a0schedule, assignments, etc. to ensure a shared\nunderstanding of expectations and time for any questions that may have arisen\nthus far.<\/p>\n\n Course Unit #2<\/b><\/p>\n\n Over the next two weeks we will be spending time exploring\nand examining the concept of digital identity and presence. The\u00a0Unit\n2\u00a0readings<\/a><\/b> attempt to provide you with a sense of considerations\nand thought provocations as you continue to plot and plan your own digital\npresence for the duration of your MA program and beyond. One of the important\nskills we seek to develop in LRNT 521 and throughout the MALAT program is\ncritical reading and evaluation of the literature in our field. One method that\nI have found effective in achieving this goal is to read actively, taking notes\nas I go, and especially writing down any questions I might have about the\nmaterial and my initial reactions\/answers\/disagreements.<\/p>\n\n While you will certainly have many questions based on your\nown analysis and experience, here are three general question types that might\nbe usefully applied to any of the readings:<\/p>\n\n After you have worked your way through the Unit 2 readings,\nActivity 2 invites you to map your use of digital technologies as it pertains\nto the resident-visitor typology and share this map on your blog.<\/p>\n\n Unit 2 Activity 3 is the beginning of Assignment 1 in our\ncourse, which runs over the length of the course and has the final deliverable\ndue at the end of the course. However, embedded in Activity 3 are some tasks\n(Item 2 \u2013 the plan and Item 3 \u2013 peer feedback on the plan) that are to be done\nover the course of the next two weeks as part of Unit 2. If you navigate off\nthe Schedule tab you can see all the deadlines and tasks associated with the\ncourse.<\/p>\n\n I also wanted to remind you about the Feedly aggregator. It\nwill help you consolidate everyone\u2019s blogs so that you can scan them and see\nwhere the conversations are happening. In addition, you can always see the top\nposts from student blogs on our course site under Blogs, Student posts but\nFeedly does a nice job of putting it all in one scrolling space, so it is\nsomething to consider.\u00a0Ken\nJeffery\u2019s session<\/a>\u00a0from the MALAT virtual symposium can help you get\nstarted with both setting up your Wordpress blog and Feedly aggregator, so be\nsure to watch as you get everything set up this week<\/b>. Again, let me know if\nyou run into any challenges and I will make sure to get any needed support\nresources in place.<\/p>\n\n Please let me know if there are any questions you would like\nto address at tomorrow's synchronous session. I will record and post this\nsession for any who are unable to attend.<\/p>\n\n Have a great week!<\/p>\n\n Russ<\/p>\n\n \u00a0<\/p> <\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Russ Wilde. Hello Everyone and Happy Monday!<\/p>\n Welcome to Week #2 of our LRNT 521 course! This week begins\n
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