a French view

As I just hit the Submit button for our last assignment, I feel a bit lost. Those past few days, it seems everyone has left the city to enjoy a well-deserved break, and the Summer vibes are not helping to focus on the last items to check on my FSU list for this semester. I am this kind of paradoxical individual who likes having flexible working conditions but also enjoys having a framework to help me keep the momentum. Now that the semester is about to end, I need to keep that momentum, one way or another. What about planning Week 13? I know I'm weird. But I'm thinking about it. A week 13. With less pressure maybe, less blogging and reading for sure, but definitely with new episodes to feed my Web 2.0 journey. I'll go back to work in 2 weeks, and one challenge when the school year starts at my university would be to experiment with what I designed during our produsage assignment. This should cover several weeks after week 12. Setting a website for my portfolio with a bloggi

One thing I got from this course is that social media are not what they look like. And that living and growing on Web 2.0 is much more complex than it seems. At least when you're reflecting on your actions and what you want from your digital self. That's what I did this summer. While experimenting with new tools, and initiating myself to new skills, I reflected on each of those experiences, how it made me feel, and whether I should develop my online self and activities. Blogging was not something I had done before. I participated in threaded discussions, replied to posts on LinkedIn or Facebook, and even write a few posts myself. But blogging is much more demanding, as it requires frequent writing, replying to others, figuring out how to be interesting AND interested. We must pick the right topic, find the perfect catchy title, avoid writing endless posts that will discourage other online visitors. As we experiment, we might want to include others' reflections as well and s

This International topic triggered more reflections than I thought, mostly due to our discussion thread on Canva which bothers me a little. In a previous post, I acknowledged my international strategy when developing my ID-oriented PLN. I initiated this PLN during the pandemic when the world shut down, and because I have never heard of instructional design in my country, and because it's not even the exact same expression in French, I found more English content and English-native contacts than similar French resources. That being said, I am French and working in a French environment. I am still hopeful to land a job in a more international setting but it seems impossible due to administrative and cultural barriers. I'm not giving up though, but this issue made me realize I also needed to nurture the French side of my PLN. I'm working in a higher ed institution, and as much as I am happy with my "US" academic background, I see that it can also make my integration i

Let me get backward a little. Course begins. First weeks bring reminders (or fresh news) on what Web 2.0 is, what produsage implies and what a Personal Learning Network (PLN) refers to. Over time, I reflected on many aspects surrounding Web 2.0-based learning and performance, and how I could use it in my future professional projects. Recently, more personal reflections emerged, mostly on whether my current PLN was serving me well. Here is what I got so far: 1. Good news: I have a PLN! Even better news: it has been supporting me in so many ways over the years: I built connections with experts and people using a similar path as mine and having similar concerns, I found resources online that allowed me to learn by myself and not stay stuck and frustrated, I opened my mind to so many diverse perspectives that it seemed that everything became a possibility. 2. Why the sky is not all blue: thanks to this course and this ongoing reflective approach I engaged in, I realized that I used more th

For this week's focus on the international perspective of Web 2.0, I thought reusing my blog's name was appropriate as part of my post's title as well. As you read my lines on Canva or elsewhere, (or as some of you heard my funny accent on Voice Thread), I've approached this program with a non-US, thus international angle. In fact, I approached my whole transition into the field of instructional design the same way, as I learned about the field and developed my PLN by connecting with English natives (mostly US) and joining US Communities of Practices online. One great benefit is that I am practicing the English language daily, which keeps being a paramount passport to integrating a field and connecting with other professionals online. This week's theme made me reflect on my progression in ID and whether things would have been different if my PLN was more "French-made" and less influenced by US vibes. Here is my opinion: I truly believe that I would not hav

Dr. Dennen, you read my mind! Here is my Spotify playlist: be selfish ;-)! Celebrate yourself with self-centered songs, others don't count here!   Add your own songs, guys! (and yes, there's a Taylor Swift song, so no hesitation here ;-) ). Important info: the collaborative feature of Spotify is not working great. Some online users suggest accessing Spotify on the desktop app to add songs to a collaborative playlist. It seems that the web player or a mobile app won't work. Give it a try, it might have been solved!