Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
May Nguyen Flying away from home at the age of seventeen with no experience of living in another country, I doubted myself “Can I do it?” My friends said that international students would definitely struggle with home-sickness, friend-sickness, language barrier, cultural differences… whatever you can name. Those are realities. Those are inevitable. Is it worth spending a…
What are the words you use to define yourself? Where did they come from? Did you pick them for yourself or did someone thrust them upon you? Do you want to change them? If so, to what? Mike Posner – “What I’ve Learned by Going from College Student to Class B Celebrity to Nobody to…
Reading this book called “Smarter than you think” (written by Clive Thompson) in class, I was captivated by quite a lot of information that C. Thompson mentioned. I like the way he pointed out the links between human mind and technology as well as all the evidence he included. The first thing that caught me…
I am writing this for the “web assignment”, again. No worries! This is something new that I found useful myself. I came across an article about “Boomerang” on Coong Cụ… I know… It’s Vietnamese… But I guess you can just browse the page and look at the images. There are some other good tools too!…
Contributing to Wikipedia is… not easy. I got this task from “How the web works” and though it was not easy, it was worth it! I was stuck with the topic to write about but after looking at a few blog posts, I was thinking of writing something about my high school, about our school’s event that I…
Savourydays – cooking blog (Vietnamese) Communicator – communication (English) Plannerslounge – wedding planning (English) These are the blogs that I have just found interesting to follow. As I have mentioned in quite a few posts (I guess), I am into Communication and Wedding planning so the last two blogs are surely what I am totally interested in. I…
Oh yea… Guess what?! I wandered through the “web assignment” and decided to do this “You’re a Pinteresting Character“. I chose this one because I wanted to show you all my interest… my dream. Hold on! Not my dreamed wedding, okay?! It is my dreamed job! I first went on Pinterest and just set up…
“Web users being ruthless and the web making us stupid I think could be together. Today we here about internet trolls who say anything they want just to get attention, today on twitter we see people who post mean tweets to celebrities and really they can say what they want and a lot of people…
“So now, when someone asks me “What’s Working Out Loud”?, here’s what I say: “Working Out Loud starts with making your work visible in such a way that it might help others. When you do that – when you work in a more open, connected way – you can build a purposeful network that makes you…
