Week 1, Introduction to the Social Learner (Task 2)

Well I am back again, clueless as to what is expected to be produced. Honestly, week 1 for me was completely mind-boggling, juggling other assignments and tasks from other units, leaving little time focus on the requirements of EDN113 (Living and Learning with Technology).

On Friday, the 28th of March 2014, Val Patton and Stuart Duvall lightly touched on task 2 - Social Learner. The main pieces of valuable information for me what was required for the assignment at hand. Which was the: 

• Social Situation
• Social Space
• Instructions
• Review

Above are 4 crucial factors in creating a successful task. Initially, I was going to pick an educational situation, however I decided to pick something I would really be passionate about, and for me that was Volleyball. I felt that if I chose something like how to improve students learning capabilities, I would have died of boredom.

I started by looking for a list of social networking sites via google:
"social media sites"

I basically chose the first hyperlink, because they usually have the most relevance to your search results which happened to be Wikipedia. I found quite a lot links there, however I wasn't able to find exactly what I wanted, because I didn't even know what I wanted exactly.

Then I started looking for a more common 'social space', which wasn't as easy as I thought, because I thought a social space could be anything like Blogspot, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter (due to the fact Facebook was NOT allowed). I knew that we had to use images or multimedia in our instructions, so I decided to go with something like Instagram or Flickr, but I thought it was too mainstream and that videos that were uploaded onto Instagram or Flickr would have to be only a few seconds long. Instagram doesn't really have an easy to navigate directory for instructions, so I preferred Flickr over Instagram, but I thought maybe Twitter would be a good idea because it was similar to Facebook, however there was the character limit (maximum amount of letters allowed in a post/comment) which is very undesirable when looking for a discussion. But... all of this was still in the planning phase. 

Which meant nothing was set in stone just yet..