Reflect on your experience in the course, your development of PLN, your use of social media platforms and networked publics. Note any changes in your perspective of social media in professional settings and personal use. Submit a closing blog post about your experience and consider how you can pivot your PLN into your next steps.

I will be highlighting my experience in this course with PLN’s and my development of my PLN. At first, I liked the idea of a PLN and I signed up for this course because I have an interest in social media which I am hoping to make a future out of. I’ve learned it takes a lot of participation and engagement to make a PLN work. I’ve made connections with people in my PLN and made new friends along the way. I’ve connected with my PLN on Mattermost and even set up a LinkedIn page for the first time. It’s opened my eyes to different social media platforms. I’ve learned how to expand my PLN and interact with others as well as strengthen my PLN by constant collaboration. I’ve definitely had a change of perspective in social media after this course because I personally only use social media with my friends and just share photos and messages. I now know that I can use social media and a PLN for professional use and I am definitely gonna implement what I learned in this course to set myself up for a professional career in the future.

 I have definitely enjoyed this course and have made a couple friends I’ve added to my personal learning network where we share photos of our daily lives and message back and forth.