I think that I learned from this course lots of things such as, how to communicate with different cultures through Soliya Platform and this can be reflected in my reflection blogpost that was about Soliya. It was the first time to interact with people all around the world online and it gave me an idea of how different cultures think about different things. I also learned how to protect my digital identity through Social media platforms such as, Facebook, Instagram and twitter. I knew that I shouldn’t share my location through these applications, because it seems dangerous and we discussed this at May 7 class Data Detox also I wrote a blog post about it. Additionally, I learned how to create a digital narrative story game as, it was my first time to do a game. The game was about the COVID-19 during Ramadan. Moreover, I also learned about how healthy is the internet and I also wrote a blog post about it. How internet is healthy talks about how mobile applications can be tracking you and lots of things like that.
On the other hand, I enjoyed reading about how to protect my digital identity and I think the readings that we were assigned to do helped us and gave us full image of how to protect it and be safe. Furthermore, this course made me create an account on twitter and I never thought that I would want to create an account on twitter before. From my experience on twitter, I found that it is interesting than Facebook and I convinced my friends that don’t have a twitter account to create an account.
I also learned some things from what we done in class such as, the game called spent. This game taught me what should I do If I was in a certain situation such as talking an important decision for a poor family of a poor person and this decision would affect the poor family or the poor person. I think that in my career I will be taking care about how to protect myself online as, I might be hacked and it could lead to a huge problem in my work.
If I were to show someone my learning in this course, I would show my blog post about the game about COVID-19 During Ramadan I how I managed to create an imagined story and link them with each other. The goal of this game was to create awareness of how people should communicate with each other in different situations and there is a blogpost talking about this topic. Additionally, I would also show how I protected my social media accounts and not to post every single thing about my personal life. I also learned a lot from the movie that we were assigned to watch “The Great Hack” It was a very knowledgeable movie about how companies like data Analytica could use our personal information and analyze it in order to know to convince us about who should we elect in the presidential election for example as shown in the movie.
If I could change 2 things about the course to improve it. The first thing is about Soliya, as what I want to change about is that there should be a break within the 3 hours that we are sitting in front of the PC. Soliya sessions would be easier if it was more than one session over the week for example it could be two classes per week and the duration of the class would be and hour and a half. The second thing that would make the course more interesting that we could watch more movies like “The Great Hack” linked to the theme of the course and then we reflect on them.
I think the kind of person who should take this course would be a creative person and is open to social media and should be open to discuss anything because that person will have to communicate with people around the world. This person should be knowledgeable and aware of the technological developments that happening all around the world.
Dr Maha during our online classes gave us an option that if we can’t attend the class, we should watch a video or read an article and write a blogpost and that sit. It will be as I’ve attended the lecture and earned my participation grade. I think this was a very good option and it released lots of stress while I am at home. Additionally, I think that writing a blogpost will give me the opportunity to mention lots of details regarding the topic we are discussing compared with attending the lecture as, colleagues and including me should participate equally and should be given more time to elaborate on the idea. I think the option that we are given is beneficial for all of the class. However, what could be bad about that option is that we could miss what other colleagues would say in the lecture.
We were also given a choice in the Digital Literacies pathways and I chose the theoretical part to do which is reading and writing a reflection on 3 articles. I think that this opportunity of being given an option helped us a lot during the semester.
Finally, I think that I enjoyed reading articles than watching videos, because I like reading in general. However, not all of the class would like to read articles so, I think that the choice of watching or reading would make life easier for all of the class. Moreover, I have chosen to to do a game than writing a poem, also when I heard that we have the option to do game instead of the poem it was easier for me to do my game COVID-19 during Ramadan. Overall, I think that the course was not considered a load on me but, I was enjoying going to class, attending online classes or doing assignments.
Works cited:
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