Our Minibook of Adventures: Humanizing Digital Spaces via Vision Boards

This reflective narrative offers a suggestion for one way to humanize digital spaces: designing and presenting a vision board at a hybrid “vision board party.” The activity is aimed at integrating a popular social media tool, YouTube, while allowing students space to practice vision boarding as well as enhancing their social-emotional capacities, including self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness and relationship skills. As such, this paper illustrates how technology and digital resources can be used to bridge language learning in the classroom and beyond, with a consideration of varying learning styles and preferences. Accordingly, I invited one of my students in a four-skills general English training course I was offering to join me and zoom into her vision-boarding experience and narrate and reflect on her story in order to help scaffold the process for interested readers, which might include educators and learners desiring to promote social-emotional skills and autonomy and engage in English-medium digital spaces that encourage learning beyond the classroom.