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First, I would like to thank Dr. Dennen and the rest of the class for making this a great experience.  I have learned from Dr. Dennen as well as all of my class mates.  I now have a better understanding of how to connect with people through social media, and also how to engage and teach through social media tools. I have also gained knowledge on many social media tools I was previously unaware of, but will now be utilizing, and working to get the organization I currently work for to utilize for education purposes.  After all, what is knowledge if you don't put it to use? I wish you all the best in life, thank you again!

As I am reflecting on this Web 2.0 course, I first want to say thank you Dr. Dennen, I have enjoyed this course.  You have engaged us and opened my eyes to many concepts related to instructional development in the social media realm that I would've never known about or thought of. We have been introduced to a number of social media sites, my favorite social media site for instructional design is Youtube.  With Youtube, you can build an entire curriculum of videos.  Although it isn't as social as some of the other tools we have used, you do have analytics built into Youtube.  I can see myself developing a curriculum to train my new team members in Primerica on the Youtube platform. Soooooooo, which tool was your favorite?

I can remember being a kid and asking a group of girls what they were talking about, and being told, "none of your bees wax."  None of your bees wax was another way of saying, none of your business of course, but it raises the question of collaborating on in a class or business setting.  What is none of your bees wax, by this I mean someone who is not a member of the class.   How do you protect the identities and intellectual property of the members of the group?    Privacy is a major issue, especially with identity theft being the number one crime in the world.  There a so many ways for hackers to get information from the members in the class.  Even Facebook has experienced its share of hackers cloning people's profiles in an attempt to get the information of the friends of that person.  So the question is how do we as instructional designers protect those taking our courses information?  Please share your thoughts. 

In one of the discussions for #eme6414, Dr. Dennen introduced a term that I had never before, but I would actually be considered one.  The term is digital immigrant.  Dr. Dennen described digital immigrants as being somene who remembers black and white TV and rotary phones.  Now my family did not have a black and white TV, but my grandparents did.  However, I do remember rotary phones.  I also remember TVs with no remotes and using clothes hangers for antennas for the TV.  My dad still has and 8-track tape player at the house that still works. Although I do remember all of these, I would consider myself to be somewhat tech savvy.  I love electronics and the latest technology.  I am a member of Team Android though.  I just have not gotten into Apple at this point. I believe that digital immigrants can be taught how to use and incorporate social media and technology into their every day lives as well as their PLNs. What are your thoughts on digital immigrants?