Platform Choice & Justification I chose YouTube because it’s where I’ve learned almost every hobby skill I have. YouTube counts as a social learning platform because the content is made by regular people, not just institutions. Anyone can upload a tutorial, viewers add tips and corrections in the comments, and creators make follow-up videos based…
I was stuck on a coding exercise. My program kept giving me nothing back, even though I could see the right answer appear partway through. So I made a post in my course’s Discord help forum and followed the community’s quick support guide: a descriptive title, tags, a link to the lesson, my code, what…
When I started @nav.tries, my Instagram page for golf swing and DJ practice reels, I assumed I was building my own learning network. Looking back, design choices I never noticed built a lot of it for me. The biggest one is the for you page. I never searched for most of the golf coaches and…
Building a diverse and inclusive PLN sounds simple until you try it, because the hard part isn’t inviting different voices in. It’s making sure they aren’t treated as guests in someone else’s network. The first challenge: Moore (2016) describes an “inclusion” diagram in which a few differently patterned dots sit inside a bubble of identical…