First of all, I am going to reflect on the tools used throughout the semester in this course Core 2096 (Digital literacies) and other tools used by other courses. These tools are Zoom, Slack, Blackboard discussion thread, Google slides, Soliya’s Platform and twitter.
To begin with, the most tool that was commonly used throughout my courses was Zoom. This tool was a platform used to take our Online lectures. It was my first time to use this application. In my opinion, I think that it is very useful way of communication between professors and students. I learned from zoom that if I wanted to mute the sound, I should press the mute button, because at the beginning I didn’t know that I have that option. I also knew that it could be used as a way of proctoring exams and this gives advantages to professors. I also learned how to create a meeting and invite my friends to work online. While using this application I knew how to share screens with professors and my friends.
Moreover, the second tool is Slack and it was a platform similar to a WhatsApp group that includes all the class and the professor Dr. Maha Bali. It was a platform that is divided into 5 sections. These sections are assignments, digital literacies, general, random and soliya. These sections are used for different purposes. It was a very useful tool as when we wanted to contact each other we can find each other easily. If I wanted to ask Dr. Maha anything I would find a quick response. I think it is a very useful tool where Dr Maha can remind us about and assignments due. I really liked this tool because it was making things easier to communicate with each other.
Additionally, Blackboard discussion thread was used in another course that I am taking called “History of political theory”. This tool is used where we can interact with our professor. The professor can Post questions and we can respond to this question and we can also respond to other colleagues comments. I think I it was useful because it gives us the opportunity to interact between each other. I learned that I could use the the discussion thread on blackboard. It was the first time to use this tool in this and previous semesters at AUC. What I didn’t like about this tool that the questions might be deleted or removed for some reason along with our answers and comments.
However, I used google slides while I was creating the digital narrative game which was about COVID-19 during Ramadan. I discovered some new things in google slides such as linking the slides with each other to create a story. I think it was a good way of presenting our game. one of the advantages that we can share slides between me and Lama and Dr. Maha. I also used it in another course which is called “Business Finance” and it was a group presentation. What I liked about google slides is that more than one person can work on the same PowerPoint at the same time.
Soliya’s Platform was the most interesting tool. In Soliya we can meet with people all over the world and discuss varies different topics such as what is dialogue and what forms our identity and so on. The good thing about Soliya platform that we used it while we are suffering form COVID-19 and we were staying at home. On the other hand, the bad thing is that the duration of the session is to long because we had to talk with each other for 3 hours without any breaks. But the good thing is I learned how other cultures think differently. Regarding the thing that I developed through using this platform was how to evaluate and think about every single word said by different people and react upon it.
The final tool is twitter; this tool is my favorite. Twitter is similar to Facebook, but on twitter you can reach any known person on this application and they also can respond to you. I convinced some of my friends to download twitter and they liked it so much and they started to post tweets about different things. What I really liked while using this app is the memes that was there. I also followed lots of newspaper twitter accounts and known people’s twitter accounts. I learned that there is a new way of communicating could be done through twitter.
Finally, I think that the most useful tool is Zoom because it is the common tool used throughout varies courses. Zoom sessions were very important because it was the only platform where we can communicate with our professors online in some courses. Then comes slack which is similar to WhatsApp and it was beneficial because we can easily communicate through text messaging with our professor. In addition to Blackboard discussion thread, was only a good platform for asking and answering questions. Google slides is useful due to that more than one can work on the same PowerPoint. Regarding soliya, I learned a lot form this platform and learned how to communicate with different cultures and how they are thinking about each and every thing. The last tool is twitter; I think that I will use it as a main social media platform. I that I will be using Twitter in the future.
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