Assessment 2: What? So What? Now What?

After I Completed the ‘Connect Skills Test’ Quiz it became clear to me that my digital literacy turns out to be a bold beginner.

I have made a Facebook account so I can connect to my friends and family that live close and far. To be able to keep contact of how they are what they have been doing with there lives. Can also get pictures sent to me as well of the adventures or just them or the kids. Having made this account can also have discussions about things and find out news that’s happening around the world. I have also made an Instagram account, to be able to just see photos of friends and family, just to see how much they are changing. I’ve also just recently made a LinkedIn profile really because we had to for an assignment but I can connect you to people (I don’t know or do know) that are in the same profession that I want to be in. Which helps if I have a question about something, I can ask them to have more insight on things in the industry. My Facebook account shows my ability is good as that I have a lot of people that I have connected to throughout the years. My ability is good to connect to people online as it’s not hard to just send someone a message to get to know them or just to say play a game with my that’s on the internet.

Connecting online is important because it helps you keep in contact with those friends and family that live far away from you that you can’t just meet up downtown. It’s also important to connect online for the fact that if you have a business you can post things online to let people know your around, so it helps get more clients coming in. Its also important for if you are looking for a certain place/business you can see online where they are in the area and get their contact to either ring up or email them. Its important connecting so you find out news around the world or how people are doing with their lives. My new knowledge I have to help me understand how to connect and be able to do this better is that we made a professional profile and had to add people in our profession we want to do so we can connect to them to get more information about what we want to do. Learnt new little tricks about things on the internet we can do/use to be able to connect to people better and the things we can do together why we connected online instead of having to try and meet up or what days before we can see others that live hours away.

Setting up my LinkedIn profile I had some ah-ha moments, such as trying to connect to certain people, just working out what to write about myself to put on my page. My ambitions and plans to move forward with connecting using my profiles are to start connecting with more people around the world and learn from their perspective of what it is to live there, how things are done and compare their lives with my life. To send photos to people to see how their land and buildings look, to see their countries view. Using my digital tools for online connecting to have a page for discussions, to see what others points of views are on things. This will support me as a digital online learner as your using digital utensils to do these things to connect to those to find out bits and pieces, while talking to these people they can still help you learn other digital items to do other things.