Class Cloud Assignment

Being a part of the class cloud assignment was extremely interesting and was fun to do and participate in. Everyone that has been through this treacherous journey of having to attend school ever since we were capable of remembering things. The typical classroom setting throughout my adolescent years and rolling into high school and college has always been the same. The professor or teacher is the only person in the classroom that is allowed to use their technology, as you increase in years of school and with time it slowly has come apparent to me that students are using their technological devices to help them receive information on the subject of class that they are in.

                As I attended class on Tuesday it was a completely different atmosphere from your typical day in a classroom. I walked in and every student was on their laptop, I-pad or even their cell phone. I thought that this was bizarre at first and it quickly led me to believe that there was an assignment due before class that everyone including myself forgot to do. I quickly realized that the students weren’t using their devices to follow the class lecture or look up assignments on canvas but they were tweeting each other back and forth.

                All students in my social media class on Tuesday were tweeting out and posting comments asking questions about the importance of social media and how all the different social media platforms are beneficial to us and different companies. It was cool to see that even our professor joined in and starting tweeting out seeing if we could get any responses to our posts. There was no noise coming out of anyone’s mouth in the classroom but every single student and teacher was participating in communicating through social media.

A lot of the communication was non-verbal communication but it was sweet to see that by simply putting the hashtag of #socmeddiscuss in our tweets it was easily seen by others and connected all other posts including that hashtag which is going to help a lot of other people and maybe even larger companies to see these posts because the hashtag brings it all together. Most of the questions asked were answered but a few were left unanswered.

What is the most important thing to do in social media to increase followers and fans? #socmeddiscuss #followers. https://twitter.com/CadeTerris/status/572861046370668544  This was one of my twitter posts and some of the responses that I got back was to post adventurous things that you do in your day to day life, whether that is vacations that you go on, or even cool hikes and pictures of being in nature, snowboarding in the mountains or even funny things that happen around the house. People love seeing bright beautiful things that are uplifting, they also love uplifting quotes and sayings. When people see continuous uplifting posts they will continue to follow you and continue to like your pictures and make comments which leads others to see your posts and have the urge to follow you as well because they like what they see from your social media life.

Social media has a huge impact on us and is extremely important that we make multiple different platforms. https://twitter.com/CadeTerris/status/572877266545328128  From this post I got a lot of likes and retweets because it is an active post and leads people to think and act on what has been said.  https://twitter.com/CadeTerris/status/572895118694346752 My last tweet was saying that social media has improved immensely over the past 5 years and brings better and easier ways of communicating. Just a good fact that shows people how important it is to use all of our tools to communicate in better ways with more people.