Creating a Map Mashup

My Experience

Learning this skill of overlaying data has been a worthwhile task. Combining the data in this way was enjoyable and it is a creative method of managing and manipulating data online. The link that is available for my Google Map Mashup is https://drive.google.com/open?id=110wLid5aINulm2MzYD7ZIJcp7jdMK0l1&usp=sharing

The link that is available for My Locations Mashup is https://drive.google.com/a/ucdconnect.ie/open?id=1K2rdVLQ6qv8tOrmsVrmEcUBCEuQBILj6&usp=sharing

Social Bookmarking with Pocket

My Experience

Pocket has been interesting to learn about. It was a platform that I knew very little about but it has been fun to discover how this social media bookmarking site operates. The link that is available for my Pocket is https://getpocket.com/a/queue/grid/

My home screen lists my three favourites at the top that are marked with a gold star.
These are some of the items that I have saved.
These are the required items that I have saved.
This is an item that I have archived.

Social Bookmarking with Pinterest

My Experience

Pinterest has been a very welcome addition to my social media platforms. I really enjoyed creating my boards and filling them with my personal choices. I enjoy organizing my information in this visual style. The link that is available for my Pinterest is https://www.pinterest.ie/byrne8558/

This is my home screen which shows the topics of my interest.
This was the first board that I created with the required images.
This is my boards that I created with my themed content.

How can publishing through blogs assist me now in my academic studies?

Speaking as someone who is totally new to this content marketing platform, I needed to research how blogging can help me in my academic studies. I quickly became aware of the benefits of blogging from a student’s perspective. By participating in this form of social media, I can gain access to information that I would not normally come across in the academic field. I can interact with professionals who share their ideas, inventions and discoveries online through blogging.

I can acquire information from these professionals, in order to enhance my own learning. Personally, I thought blogging was dead but I discovered that it is not, it is merely evolving. Bloggers use different platforms with millions of followers, such as Snapchat or Instagram as they are popular and current. One blog I read suggested that “useless blogs die and valuable blogs thrive”, this point is clear as people want to learn (Santo, 2018).

But how will this web-based tool work for me and help me with my academic studies? The answer is that I can learn from the bloggers who have “done the research, acquired a deep knowledge of their subject and done all the heavy scholarly lifting, they may choose not to write papers, but rather blog about it” (Day, 2013). This can benefit me as a student, just as much as publishing my own blogs to keep my online journal of new discoveries.

Bibliography

Day, C. (2013). Blogging scholars. Computing in Science & Engineering, 15(6), 104-104. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2013.116

Santo, A. (2018, July 31st). Is blogging dead? Brafton. Retrieved from https://www.brafton.com/blog/creation/is-blogging-dead/