Week 4: Map of Digital Spaces

My Personal Map of Digital Spaces

My Internet Map:

My Personal Digital Spaces Map (Google Drawing)

Description: 

Here is my personal map of digital spaces (aka the internet). In order to create this map, I looked at my phone apps and saved webpages to see what things I used/visited most frequently. I made a list of everything on paper and then I found the icons for all the apps/sites. I then placed them where I believed they should go based on whether I just visit them/use less or live in them/use more. I also made the icons bigger based on the amount of time I use them overall verse others on the map. I also added texting into my digital space. I know that it is more like calling and not really an internet thing...but I used it so much that I figured I would include it to show myself that I need to see people more and text less!

Anyways, I will just go over some main points of my digital space map! Most of the personal spaces that I use a lot are social media, but I will say that I limit myself to only 2 because there are so many and I just don't see the point of having 6 different social medias. The ones I use less frequently are tech-savvy tools like Google home, Fitbit and Samsung pay that really just make live easier and just aren't used like crazy but are useful! I have Google docs in my personal space because I do use it for wedding reasons and writing personal documents occasionally, but I use it more frequently for teaching, coaching and grad school and thus why I also put a much larger icon in the personal, resident section.

I put a lot of spaces in between personal and professional because I used them for both reasons pretty equally. I use Amazon to order personal and professional items. I use YouTube to watch video and I also post how to videos for my students on Google Classroom and I also have a huge separate icon in the personal, resident section because I listen to music off of YouTube quite frequently! Google search, calendar, keep and gmail are all in between personal and professional because I use all of them both ways the same amount, but I put them in the resident section because I use them daily verse YouTube and Amazon for the same reasons.

Lastly in the strictly professional sections, I put all the spaces I use for either school, coaching or grad school. On the visitor side, I have ALEKS, PearDeck, Desmos, ConnectED and Google Slides because I use them less frequently in my math classroom but they are used and used about the same amount of time which is why all the icons are similar size. I also have the remind app there which I use for coaching during season and that's it and also Blogger because I use it for grad school and that's it so far. I put Google Classroom in between because I use it every day, but all I do is post the daily agenda and sometime videos for students to watch. I think I can work on using more of it's features in the future. I put infinite campus and google docs in the professional, resident section and they are pretty big icons because I use them all day, everyday at work. 

Personal Thoughts about Map:

I was actually surprised by how many digital spaces I used/visited. I didn't think it would be a lot and I actually would say it is probably less than more people's my age especially in the personal section. I think it is probably good that I don't have too much social media/games junk in my personal section. I feel like I am so go, go, go that I don't have too much time for all that. I also think I need to work on using my professional spaces more frequently to help me in the classroom. I want to try to learn about more apps/sites that are useful and see which ones work the best for a math classroom and my style of teaching. I also want to take spaces learned about in grad school classes and research them more to find ways to incorporate them into my classes/teaching/student's learning! I used a lot of digital spaces for planning/creating, but I need to work on using more for teaching and activities. Overall, it was very interesting to see it visually and really analyzing what I used, why I used it and for how long I use it! I think it would be interesting to make a similar concept with my students but instead of putting a professional section, making it a school section and see what they come up with and what they think about their map. I bet you could get a great conversation going over it in a literature or technology class.