Section 1: Academic/Professional Experience & Goals

In this section, please find the Learning Objectives assignment, and the My New Media Tools assignment.















Jim Nagle

English 230

Statement of learning objectives

1.     I would like to develop literacy/competency with new forms of media.

2.     I would like to further develop my reading/writing skills.

3.     I would like to develop my computer/tech skills. 

4.     I would like to build competency with different forms of social media, with which I am unfamiliar. 

5.     I would like to be able to critically evaluate the uses/purposes of new forms of media.

6.     I would like to be able to critically evaluate what is produced (produecage) by different forms of new media.

7.     I would like to develop an understanding of how different forms of new media can be used in the classroom, to further my teaching career.

8.     I would like to be able to develop competency with new forms of technology that can be used in the classroom.

9.     I would like to develop competency in reading/writing using new forms of media.

10.  I would like to develop my web/social media presence. 

Jim Nagle

English 240

New Media Tools Assignment

1.     GroupMe is a group messaging app, designed for use by smartphones.

2.     GroupMe was launched by GroupMe, a private company, in May 2019, and is owned by Microsoft. 

3.     In order to create a GroupMe account, users must either provide a name, cell phone number, and password, or connect to GroupMe through a Facebook or Twitter account. GroupMe then syncs the user’s contacts. After creating an account, users can create or join group messages of any size. Groups are commonly made for work/school functions, clubs/organized activities, social functions, etc. 

4.     Entering the community only requires the creation of a GroupMe account. Community is maintained through individual group chats. For example, I am in GroupMes for my job, class projects, social organizations, etc. 

5.     GroupMe enables instant messaging to a large group of people. Users can instantly communicate with everyone in a given group by posting a message in the group.

6.     Because groups can be formed for a variety of purposes, GroupMe can be used in educational settings, to communicate with people of other cultures/countries, to organize events, organization of political/civic engagement, etc.