Thought Kandi

 Being a bit of an introvert, social media is both wonderful and not necessary for me personally. I dabbled with Twitter a few years ago but my heart wasn't in it so my experience has been almost exclusively on Facebook.. It is a wonderful way to keep up with family and friends both near and far. Lately I have mostly used Facebook to show off my baby boy although even that has been spotty. Professionally, I follow pages related to my grad school studies and the LMS used by my district when the global pandemic made online learning necessary for everyone. Facebook I see the biggest advantage to using Facebook in education to be sharing information with parents/guardians. While it is necessary to be careful about what is shared, it is a great place to share information about what is going on at school. In fact, at the beginning of this school year I tried to remember how parents used to get information about school supplies and back-to-school events. I think it could also be a way to ...

Blogs and Blog Readers All things considered, I am new to the world of blogs. I have read some blog posts in the past, but I don't recall ever consistently following a blogger. This is mostly because I am forgetful and my inbox is ridiculous so even if I signed up for emails they are doomed to remain unread until that magical day when there is absolutely nothing else to do. Now, here I am, a blogger - by requirement for grad school classes - although I have no idea if I will ever be read outside of my professors and classmates. Like the proverbial tree in the forest, if a person writes a blog but no one reads it unless they are required to, does that make me a blogger? Nonetheless, being introduced to blog readers was a bit exciting. Maybe now I can actually follow those blogs consistently because technology is doing the remembering and monitoring for me. In order to choose a blog reader, I relied on an article by Lindsay Liedke titled 7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers. As the title ind...