Reflective Post

Time goes really fast! The first class of ALES204 is just like at yesterday!  Believe or not we are already at the end of the semester! Everyone seems very busy. This term I feel so luck to take ALES204. I have learned a lot of things from this class. As an international student, I was very upset about the difficulty of communication with Canadian students before this class. I don’t know how to start a conversation with my classmates that they are interested in because I don’t know what are they thinking and what they are interested in. Communication is not only the skills of language but also the tool of communication. Fortunately, I take ALES204, which has taught me a lot of social media that are very popular in Canada and I did't know before.

The first social medium I have learned from ALES204 is Twitter. Many Canadian people are using twitter now. We can tweet anything we want only in 140 letters. Using twitter we can share our life to friends who are close to us or far away from us without the restriction of space and time. Even the people who don’t know each other also can share their experience with each other.

The second social medium that ALES204 taught me is face book. Before this class I already had a face book account but just used it to share information and photos with my friends. I never though one day I would have my professional business face book page. As a fourth year student, I will graduate next year. It is the time to prepare for my future career. This professional page promotes me to my potential employers.

The third social medium tool I have learned from ALES204 is Linkedin. I created my profile in Linkedin, which is like a resume that I post online. Linkedin is really cool! It helps job hunters to build up a social net. People who are looking for job can post information about what kind of job they are looking for on Linkedin and on the other hand people who are hiring also can post their ads on Linkedin. In addtion to the three social media tools above, there are many other useful social media I have learn from ALES204 such as Flickr, Blog , Google docs and so on. Thanks to ALES204 for helping to catch up the trend of the time.

Here are five classmates' blogs that I have commented:
Caylee's bolgs
Toni's blog
Amily's blog
Tania's blog
Candi's blog