Guns Down

Okay, so charging in "all guns blazing" was probably quite ineffective.  I didn't read all the information about the assignment that was available on the LMS.  Should know better by now!  While waiting for an answer from the AllDeaf webpage, I was reading through some of the resources on LMS and came across the Symbaloo page for Social Media created by Jenni Parker, https://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/socialmedia6    I really liked the 'click and try' type of interface that a Symbaloo page offers.  So click and try I did.  In my mind, I knew what I wanted to make for my social group and while lots of sites offered something that could be a modified version of what I was thinking of, www.mixxt.com/ offered me exactly what I was thinking of and more!  I began to get excited about the assignment for the first time! 

So I began to build my social media page/group for parents and families raising deaf children.  Mixxt has been very easy to use so far.  It gives the user so many options without making it complicated or hard to navigate.  It was great to be able to incorporate all the things I love about social media with all the things I have found useful and supportive during my amazing journey raising our deaf daughter.  I would actually like to make this group a real functional page, not just an assignment.  But I will rein myself in a bit for now and make sure it meets the requirements of the task first.

My social media has several features where members can contribute.  They can contribute to a discussion forum (several will be set up with discussion topics created), they can add photos and videos, and they can use and add links to useful and supportive webpages, and perhaps for the purpose of the assignment they could register their interest/attendance at a 'morning tea with a guest speaker' for parents of deaf children and nominate a plate to bring or service to provide for the event.