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Hi all,

I’m Abdullahi Bashir, a fourth-year Health Information Science (HINF) student who is enthusiastic about learning about data science, healthcare technology, and management. I previously graduated from Jordan’s Yarmouk University with a degree in finance and banking, but I chose to pursue a degree in healthcare since I have more interest in that area.

I’m taking this course to fulfil my program’s senior elective requirement and to understand more about learning as it’s a complex process. Since the advent of covid, companies and educational institutions are increasingly relying on digital platforms; thus, it is crucial to understand how dispersed and open learnings operate.

Outside of school, I enjoy watching soccer, UFC, or comedy shows as well as playing soccer. Additionally, I enjoy travelling and exploring new places.

Looking forward to working with everyone in the next few months.

Cheers.

Hi all,

I’m Abdullahi Bashir, a fourth-year Health Information Science (HINF) student who is enthusiastic about learning about data science, healthcare technology, and management. I previously graduated from Jordan’s Yarmouk University with a degree in finance and banking, but I chose to pursue a degree in healthcare.

I enjoy watching soccer, UFC, and comedy shows as well as playing soccer in my free time. Additionally, I enjoy travelling and exploring new places.

Looking forward to working with everyone in the next few months.

Cheers.

What does it mean to network using social media?

Using social media to network entails using online social networking sites to maintain contact with friends, family, coworkers, or clients. Through websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest, social media may serve a social purpose, a business purpose, or both. Additionally, social media gives businesses the chance to communicate with customers by running advertising on platforms like Facebook or Instagram. Social media has been extremely helpful during pandemics since it allowed students to continue attending lessons online while avoiding touch by utilizing applications like Teams or Zoom.

How are we motivated to participate in networked publics?

There are several factors that influence our motivation to engage in networked publics. Some individuals utilize online communities like twitch to watch their favourite streamers play video games because they want to have fun and be entertained. Other individuals could be leveraging networked publics for informational seeking or simply because it is very convenient and easy to stay connected using networked publics.

 What are the risks & rewards of public communications?

Risks could be the following;

• Privacy Issues. Undoubtedly, one of the concerns that are most frequently encountered is privacy. Some issues with regular social media use include tweeting improper content, exposing too much of our daily life with a wide audience, or accidentally sharing one’s location online.
• Spread of false Information. People frequently fabricate phoney social media postings and share them by distributing misleading information on forums and other platforms.
• Cyberbullying. Sending offensive texts and offensive media (such as pictures and videos) are ways that bullying occurs.

Rewards could be the following;

• Convenience and easy access. Utilizing public communications is quite simple and practical.
• Global connectivity. Social media has made good worldwide communication possible, which is one of its most well-known benefits
• a top-notch educational tool. With the use of social networking platforms, students may communicate with professors and learn at their own pace. Additionally, social media greatly improves the learning process adaptability as a whole.

What made you decide to take this course?

The main reasons are

1. Senior Elective; I am doing Health informatics, and I am supposed to take 5 senior Electives.
2. I am interested in understanding how various media kinds might affect learning, what are the best ways to learn new things and how to learn easier and quicker. Different ideas are presented in the course that will aid in my effective learning and reduce cognitive strain.

What are your learning goals this term?

My learning goals this term are:

• I am taking 6 courses so the first goal is to excel in all the courses and get good grades
• Learn new things, engage with students and improve.

Examples.

Interactive media is a means of communication where the program’s outputs depend on user inputs. Video games are one type of interactive media where players use controllers to react to visual and aural signals created by a computer program on the screen.

Multimedia is a representation of information in an attractive and interactive way with the use of a combination of text, audio, video, graphics and animation. An example of Multimedia is Zoom video conferences which possess real-time video, audio, text message and visual environments.

Interactive multimedia enables the user to control, mix, and alter a range of media types, including text, computer graphics, audio and video resources, as well as animation. An example is travel guides such as a website called lonely planet https://www.lonelyplanet.com/.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/places

Which of these examples do you find the most interesting and engaging? What do you think makes it interesting and engaging for you?

The example related to video games strikes me as being the most intriguing and captivating. The rationale is that video games captivate players by offering a variety of high-definition communication channels. With increased in-game skill, challenges, rewards, tales, character qualities, and levels of play that are harder and harder to complete also become available, catching the player’s attention more.