As my social media course winds to its conclusion, I am reflecting back on the first decision I made in the course: how much of myself do I reveal? At the beginning of the course, I made the decision to post the educational blogs as myself, interwoven into the fabric of my current website. Deciding the my […]
Yoga students friend me on Facebook all the time. See, as a yoga teacher, I work in an industry where personal connection is valued. I have the pleasure of working with some of my yoga students up to four times a week. I know their names, their injuries, their sense of humour. Before and after class, we […]
A Facebook private message happens at 8:57 pm, “out of working hours” (Casey et al., 2014), which leads to a work call and work discussion in the late evening. With the advent of social media as a resource for professional communication, the boundary between work and play is fuzzier than ever. Friends on Facebook are […]
People, my mind has gone full jumping monkey. As I’ve plunged more fully into social media (with a vengeance, tally ho!) during my Web 2.0 course, my mind has become hyperactive, jumpy, and just a wee bit obsessive. The instantaneous and fractal nature of working online is seductive; I’ve followed so many rabbits down so many holes that […]
Okay okay, so it’s been awhile since I’ve checked out Google Maps. The last time I did anything resembling this kind of exploration was a few years ago when I did a cursory check of Google Earth and visited the usual hangouts. You know, like typing in “Titanic,” getting zoomed around, flying into the ocean, and seeing a […]
I tried Periscope this week. It’s a Twitter creation that streams live video to whoever happens to tune into the feed at the time. “Let’s just try it,” I say to my boyfriend, while we’re eating breakfast at local restaurant. “Periscope?” He raises an eyebrow. “It does live video. Like a mini-broadcast, I suppose.” I […]
Baby’s first Twitter chat! 132 tweets, 12 participants. I think we can safely say that it wasn’t a rousing affair (especially as it began with 20 minutes of meditation and breathing), but it was geographically remarkable in that the chat influencers were from Idaho and California. Mostly the chat consisted of the hosts posting inspirational quotes and everyone […]
There’s a problem with data. No, not Data from Star Trek, with his emotion chip. But data. User data. Your data. My data. The trail we leave behind us as we fritter along our merry away on the web, facebooking, linking, posting, lurking, and tweeting. Have you ever noticed how those ads that crop up […]
I am a transparent blogger. I use my real name, reveal personal details, and don’t separate my personal and professional identity. In my posts, I have discussed everything from flatulence to love to education, and readers who visit my blog will likely gain multi-dimensional view of who I am. Art and reality “Never let them catch […]
This week I dove in and drowned. I got too excited about incorporating the tools from last week immediately and entirely into my life. As a result, Twitter, Feed.ly, Facebook, and the blog took up a lot of my time, and I didn’t spend enough time exploring the new tools on the agenda. Diigo Diigo […]
What a relief. “Start where you are.” The advice came at the perfect time. “You can feel overwhelmed.” Ain’t that the truth. This week I dove headlong into Twitter, which led me into rabbit holes of web content, unfollowers, hashtags, links, and lists. Enthusiastic plans exploded in my brain. “I will build a learning empire,” some […]
The teacher trainers are clustered in a corner. “I’m thinking,” says Ashley (yin teacher, vibrant, killer hair, nerdy in the best way), “that we should hold a potluck, a dinner, to bring everyone together. You know, talk about these issues that are coming up in their teaching as a group. Collaborate and share experiences. I’m […]
My roommate shuns Facebook. “Ugh, I’m never on that,” she sighs, “Sure, I have a profile, but I never post. Facebook is all about ego. All that posturing. Bleh.” She makes a face. She is definitive. And she’s not alone. A 2013 study implies Facebook use may increase unhappiness. I’m a yoga teacher. I often have thought like her and […]
Well, a few days into the course and I am down the rabbit hole. One tweet leads to instagram, which leads to website, which leads to an article, which leads to a different article, to a twitter feed, to a new post, to a new twitter feed, to a new article, to a new picture..and […]
I had no idea. Rather than endlessly trowel the net in search of information, or – god forbid! – visit websites, here is news coming to me. Like a little child with a basket of presents, all these goodies in one little place! And I had no idea. While I understood the idea of subscribing to […]
“So when you get a text,” my friend says slowly, “you first respond to what they say, and then you have to answer with a question to keep the conversation going.” She is a fabulous and attractive woman in her mid-forties, now venturing into the waters of online dating. I nod, commiserating. I’ve been down this […]
This morning I’ve been inspired to revisit my Twitter feed and actively peruse profiles of people that I admire. I can see how immediate this medium is, trying to create lists (including one for FSU) to try to organize how I receive information from my different communities. It is better to specialize, or shine the […]
Well, my first evening of exploring Web 2.0, and I went a bit crazy. First of all, checking out other people’s Twitter feeds caused me to feel self-conscious about the shabby graphics on my Twitter feed, so I had to update those. Then I started reading articles from sites I was lurking on and decided to blog […]
Hello, friends. Many of you may know that I’m passionate about yoga, relationships, and teacher training. What you may not have known quite so explicitly is that I’m also a fledgling educational nerd. I am passionate about the delivery of education and excited to investigate how we can leverage current technology to create communities of […]
It began with a text exchange: Hey Rachel, that’s a sexy, sassy new POF profile! …What new profile? …Uh, you’d better call me. A friendly Fish directs me to the username of the new profile that has cropped up on Plenty of Fish. “It’s definitely you,” he says with animated concern, “The pictures are of […]
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