Blog Post #2- V&R Mapping

Hi Helen! I really enjoyed reading your post about V&R Mapping; you brought up some interesting information and I learned a lot. I like how you started off by talking about LinkedIn, because I have never used it and did not know much about it before reading your post. It sounds like a great tool that I am going to consider starting to use to expand my professional learning network and build connections with people working in my areas of interests. I like how you connected LinkedIn to Zoom and Microsoft Teams by saying that after meeting on LinkedIn, you can video chat to strengthen the relationship that is being built. Another part of your post that stuck out to me was how we, as students, can expand our professional learning networks. I have thought about this before, but I had not thought about starting with a professional headshot and an introduction paragraph. Thinking about it now, that is an excellent idea and I believe it would be a very beneficial way to introduce myself and start building professional networks.

Looking at your V&R Map, I find it interesting to see how we placed certain online platforms in different places. I know that everyone uses these tools in different ways and for different purposes, but I find it interesting to learn about how other people use these same resources. I also liked seeing what other digital platforms you added that I did not think of or do not use. Some of them are sites that I may look into using later on. There are so many sites that can be a part of our digital identity, and looking at other V&R Maps shows how many different ones there are available for us to use.