Round Two: Social Media Week

           This week was the second time I was required to use some type of social media program through the Hixson program and once again I had to use Twitter for a week. This second experience was a lot of fun compared to the first experience because I somewhat knew what I was doing. I still kind of don’t understand how some parts of Twitter work but still had a great time using it for this past week. During this second experience of using Twitter I got two main ideas from it. The first was that this experience really helped us as a group of peer mentors to become closer and get to know each other. By doing this I think that growing a stronger relationship between us will help us to build strong relationships between our peer mentees and us. I also noticed that everybody is sick and tired of the snow and cold weather which I can definitely agree with!

            I really enjoyed the Angie and Kira’s presentation and activities because they were both very informative and hands on learning! Although the Lego project was frustrating because we were given a role that may not be in our comfort zone or a role we usually like to do, I still really enjoyed the activity because it was different from previous group’s presentations and made us realize that we may have to control ourselves in group situations to complete a job successfully.

            Now for Allie’s presentation about social media, the major things that I took away from her presentation were that “social media is like a tattoo” and “don’t put anything up that you would be embarrassed to see on the front of a newspaper.” Both of these phrases really make sense and greatly explain how to use social media correctly by thinking about whether your tweet or post may negatively represent or affect you or your future. I think that allowing us to tweet during Allie’s presentation was also very funny and enjoyable too!