Welcome to the EME2040 class blog!
My name is Daeun. I'm a doctoral candidate in the Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies program at FSU. I was grown up in South Korea, and before attending college in Seoul, I spent my K-12 years in a small town located on the west coast. Due to my background, I'm very passionate about rural schools and education.
I've experienced a variety of technologies in educational settings. One of the instructors I had in my master's program used Socrative for students to throw questions during lectures. The questions posed by the students would show up on the screen that every student could see, and the instructor would address them. In another class, I collaborated with my classmates to develop a Wiki page using Google Docs about a certain topic. At FSU, I've used Flipgrid to record introduction videos/discussions, Voicethread for presentations, and blog posts for reflections on course content. I found the majority of the technologies to be effective for my learning. I hope that through this course you will become more familiar with various technologies and be able to come up with your own technology incorporation ideas.
As for my PLN, as a doctoral student, I follow #phdchat on Instagram to learn about other grad students' productivity tips and stress management strategies, and just to see how other grad students are doing. I also subscribe to a few YouTube channels run by PhD students. I follow many people in academia both in my field and in other fields on Twitter, where I can get some helpful tips about research, job search, conference, etc. I'm in several Slack channels for my research groups, where I interact asynchronously with colleagues. I also meet with my colleagues online and in person for research group meetings. I've taught EME2040 for three years now, and I've been inspired a lot by my students' works and learned about new technologies from them. I go to Strozier and Dirac often for study and writing. These people, tools, and spaces comprise my PLN, which has helped me adjust to graduate school life and academia.
