Unit 1 Blog Post

I am coming into this with a different perspective. I would one day like to be a university professor along with my background of writing and filmmaking. I am however, a Millennial and took a few days to reflect on the videos as well as the readings for Unit one in this course. I also have a Godson who is in elementary school and I will also use him as a frame of reference for my response as well since I do not have K-12 experience, but I can use him as an example in the differences between my educational experiences and what he is experiencing at this very moment. A bit about my educational background before I get into depth, I was fortunate to attend schools throughout my childhood that kept up to date on textbooks and technology. My Godson, on the other hand, is attending a public school that is short on funding, so instead of letting students take the textbooks home, the district makes copies of worksheets (which leads to homework confusion.) I also coached high school kids in lacrosse in this age group as well, so I will use them as a frame of reference.

Intro Post - IT 6230 Winter 2014

My name is Erica and I am in the Online Teaching Program at Wayne State. This is my first semester here and I'm definitely looking forward to my experience. I am currently a Social Media Marketing Intern for Empeopled, a social networking startup based out of Chicago. My hobbies include writing fiction (a little bit), screenplays and plays (a lot of those), and poetry (somewhat.) My family is just my immediate family of my brother and my parents, but I have a huge extended family. I am also a huge sports lover, as well as an active athlete. I love tennis, hockey, volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse. Honestly, I love too many sports to mention, but I have played everyone of the previously mentioned sports at some point. My love of hockey recently had me venture out to the Hockeytown Winter Festival events, as well as the Winter Classic as Michigan Stadium.

I am in this course because of the online teaching program. Although no one knows everything about social networking and I am familiar with some social networking sites, I am not familiar with everything and I definitely wish to learn something new, especially because of my internship and my role with Empeopled. (and I really didn't have a Google + account until now). I look forward to being in the course and interacting with my new classmates at Wayne.