Thanks to a wacky few weeks, I had to settle for the concept version of the Online Communities assignment. If I did have the chance to do the full version, I would have spent time capitalizing my decade of time wading into the fitness and bodybuilding communities. I have been obese since the summer after I turned 6 years old and have been under some sort of pressure to be fit. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jason C-L ✈️💪🏾🙏🏾🧠 (@fitby40orelse) My desire to be fit was under tension: be slim and sporty like my cousins (and my father in my youth) or aspire to be as big as the bodybuilders in the grocery store magazines. Option 1 is what led me to several phases of movement: infrequent gym engagement, on-demand dance videos, the BeachBody movement (P90X and Insanity), yoga, running. It wasn't until I moved down to South Florida that Option 2 came back into my life. Through it all...I have been using social media to ge...
When we consider Web 2.0, the biggest draw is the global reach. The premise of the World Wide Web is to share information (originally a library system) quickly across the miles. All you need is a connection. Wireless Internet and smartphones means that getting connected should be easier. So imagine my surprise when reviewing the Pew Research study from this week's reading that this overview is based on 37 countries. Notably, there are only six sub-Saharan African countries and zero data from Central America and the Caribbean. While DataReportal reports a significant gap in penetration in these areas, these three gaps represent roughly 10% of Internet users. This makes me challenge even the conclusions about sub-Saharan Africa. Worse by erasing such a significant part of the developing world, we miss the high penetration of social media use in the Global South. Global Means Global. If we are truly learning to engage learners a...
I use two Instagram accounts regularly. For #eme6414, I use my public account, dedicated to my holistic health journey @fitby40orelse . Therefore, a Instagram challenge was right up my street. Imagine my surprise when I was playing catch up. Monday, I shared the advice (and pet peeve) of people using their video calling out in public. This is the problem with the use of "intuitive technology" that requires no training...nobody told you that it was rude, did they? Required netiquette classes for all! https://www.instagram.com/p/CfDV7sVD5UU/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Tuesday, I recalled the days of early pandemic when churches were closed and we worshipped at home. I was smart enough to capture on my personal account one communion Sunday when I had no bread or grape juice. With Ritz crackers and orange juice I remembered Christ. As we look at how tech changes our life, I was proud of that moment. https://www.instagram.com/p/CfIiRFcs-MF/?igshid=YmM...
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