The Connected Educator, Chapter 6: Building Your Connected Learning Community
Chapter 6: Building Your Connected Learning Community
By: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
In this blog I will be summarizing Chapter 6 of the book The Connected Educator and connecting my career path to it. This chapter talks about how it is important to make online connections whether it be for a job or just personal life. Throughout this chapter it always links back to a community. You start a community while making relationships in the online field. While making online connections you want it to be healthy and help others and not just share your own opinions but encourage others. Treat others in the online network field the same as how you would treat everyone else around you.
There are four roles of an online community. Linking- educators that are interested in joining the community, Lurking- they participate online and they share their thoughts and ideas but they're willing to listen to others, Learning- community members who participate, they bring learning experience to the group, Leading- Educators that commit most of their time to encourage others. They may be identified as a leader. All four roles play a major part of being a community member they all linked together to make the community whole.
In the dental field doctors only see their patients two to three times a year. Doctors should make online connections with their patients the rest of the 363/362 days a year. How are you supposed to know and connect with your patients when you only see them two times a year? It is important to make connections with the patients, so they feel safe and comfortable. Dentists usually have their own social media account for the office or themselves. They post pictures of their office, of the workers, and of the patients if allowed. They can post pictures introducing new staff and even a question and answer video to connect with the audience. It doesn't matter what field you're in, you can always make connections online, just by making a simple social media account.
Good summary and very important that connections are healthy and done in a way that is respectful to everyone. That is a great idea about connecting with your patients. I actually don't follow my dentist's Facebook page but I should. Would you connect with your patients from your own personal Facebook page, which could be very time consuming or have them connect with your office and then make the posts less generic business posts and more personal with yourself or staff occasionally sharing personal info?
ReplyDeleteI liked the summary and some points that you brought to my attention. Some occupations only allow for few visits a year in which can certainty be difficult to create relationships in such little communication. Social media could definitely help with problems like this. My question would be how can we engage others on social media platforms that don't typically use them?
ReplyDeleteI loved your summary and the way you explained your career and also how it can help keep you connected to patients since you will only usually see then twice a year and how connecting online can keep you a lot closer to your future patients.
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ReplyDeleteI really love all of your posts. I think they are all so thorough and well written. I really like this post, this chapter was summarized very well and organized. I like how you talk about your aspirations to be in dentistry. I like how you think out the box and are creative with your responses. You really do great:)
I really enjoyed your picture that went along with your summary, it caught my eye and made me want to see what you summary was about (before reading it). As someone who has a dentist who sends them many texts, emails, etc. I like how you added the last paragraph on if they should/or shouldn't do this. I personally enjoy it, but others may find it too much and a bother if they are on top of making their own appointments, etc. One thing I may add is... do you think that in our growing world of technology will we ever have time to fully unwind from the craziness and constant notifications that technology provide to us?
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