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As we near the end of our fall term we are also ending our ALES 204 class. And it honestly just seemed like the other day when I was procrastinating what to write for my introductory blog post. I have learned so much in this class, from using Twitter to making my own blogs – networking cites I never thought I would ever use. But using such social networking websites weren’t for personal use whatsoever; rather, we learned how to use social networking to assist in finding future employers and to connect with researchers/scientist in our fields - ways of connecting to people professionally I had never thought of before. I learned more about social media that i had already heard of and been using but also learned about some that i never knew even existed. This class introduced me to many sources of social networking that I had never heard of before, like LinkedIn, Audioboo, Flickr and Delicious. But I also learned about websites I used almost on a everyday basis like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Google.
But the class was not all fun social networking cites we did quite a bit about scientific papers – like how to cite them in APA, and different forms of peer review. I also had an assignment where i wrote a paper about differences between a new and 15 year old scientific journal. The class also introduced Google Doc to me which ended up being quite a useful tool in many of my classes other than ALES. But we were also given the opportunity to edit a Wikipedia stub to add lots of additional information - you can check out what I did here. I do have to say though i believe all the hard work did pay off from what i gained from the experience of doing most of the assignments.
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The labs were actually fun to go to and much was learned in them as well. At first it was a bit nerve racking to present a speech in front of the entire lab without having time to prepare what I was going to say . But after assurance from our TA’s that the speeches were just exercised but giving a speech is something we should have fun with and that none of us should be worried. The TA’s went over the important parts of giving a speech and what mistakes we notice in speeches others gave to learn how to perfect giving a speech. In the labs I also learned how to make a presentation poster, a CV and where we practiced what we had learned about APA citing. Having Angie and MC as TAs was great, they were very nice and were able to assist me with any questions i had about any of the assignments. But I also got helpful feedback from Angie on assignments I did.
Overall I’m glad that this term is coming to an end. And like all good things ALES 204 must end too. But with this class ending I am taking away much more then what was preached in class about technology and how the business world around me is evolving to use social networking in a professional manner; I also took away how to use all of these networking cites. I was able to utilize everything that Jess, my professor, had talked about and used within class too. I took away the knowledge and power of being able to find a job in many different ways online as well as ways to stay connected to people in my field without having to spend money on magazines or journals. Thanks so much ALES 204! And to check out what classmate Samantha thought of ALES 204 check out her blog here!
Here’s a list of the others students blogs who I commented on:
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