As we have just finished the two week semester I would like to discuss the benefits I have seen in my knowledge of social media over the past semester.
Before I took this elective, I would have said that I would have had an average knowledge of different social media outlets from Facebook, twitter and instagram. Yet this three mention are just the standard websites. I was amazed to discover that there is actually so much more out there.
Pinterest- This an online site to like and share different things you have an interest but also see what other people are posting . I have found some really interesting things on this website from different make-up ideas, nail ideas and cooking recipes. It has really been useful there has been so much accessible information on it.
Google Maps- Even though this is such a commonly used thing I never knew how to design and create an map. As I am travelling this summer along the west coast of america, when I finish my exams, I plan to create a map for our journey. I intend to include images and locations of different hotels that we plan on staying in.
Diigo- Yet the social media device I have found most helpful is Diigo. As I am a final year student,I have an endless amount of readings. As I like to print my readings out and highlight them it was becoming infeasible to print them all with the load I had. I started then saving all my files in pdf form so I could work in that way but this was starting to take up my memory. After we had the elab on Diigo, I have been using this website to save, bookmark and highlight all my readings. It has been so useful. I am able to group my readings by modules, I am able to bookmark readings that I find interesting and most importantly to me, I am able to highlight readings. All this useful tools will stand to be in the next coming weeks.
Not only have I found out about more websites to use but also, I have gained a greater knowledge on privacy issues. Before taking this lecture I would have known to be careful about what I post up online. Yet I never would have thought not to post a passport like photo online incase of fraud. On each website we use there are different privacy settings that we should all check before setting up our page, even on blogger.com we can see who has access to our page or not.
I know the above is a small minority of what else is out there, but so far the above have been so useful to me and cant wait to explore more.
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