In Module 3 – Communication and Collaboration, the overall discussion is about developing positive online relationships and presenting yourself online in a positive way. It demonstrates netiquette, online communication tips, emailing tips, and effective discussion posts and replies. It seems simple and self explanatory, but it is definitely enlightening and educational.

There are multiple tips and advice that is explained in this module. A quote in module 3 powerpoint had a quote “We teach people how to treat us”, and I believe this sums up the whole module completely. I believe it means the way you present yourself online and to other people is the way they will treat you. If you are vulgar, disrespectful or unpleasant, other people will respond to you in that way. But if you are friendly and respectful, other people will respond that way to you online and in person. This may seem logical and common sense, but I believe we do not think about these things when we are online on social media or sending emails. We have to keep reminding ourselves and insure we are presenting ourselves online in a positive way.

A section in this module that I would like to start practicing is staying organized online. Simple tasks like making folder for each of the courses in file directory. I extended this idea and made a folders for every week. This makes it even faster to access files and to keep everything organized. Also, putting dates on files with a small discretion for the title helps keep everything neat and easily accessible. I currently have over 400 Microsoft word documents just in the documents section of my computer. This is accumulation of past assignments and projects that I upload. I do not advise to delete any word documents even if you think you will not need them. I am currently organizing this section on my computer to where even past documents are organized correctly and easily accessed if I would even need to look them over again.

Overall, this module has to be informative in some way to everyone. This module sheds light on proper emailing techniques, netiquette, discussion posts, organization and even how to survive online classes without feeling alone. This module helps you think twice the next time you send an email.