My Weekend Baking

After a pretty busy weekend, I thought I'd take a more chill approach this time round, and what better than to bake! I've had the urge to bake recently, and yesterday I wanted to try out making some homemade Hawaiian rolls! Where did I find my recipe? TikTok. 

Recently, I have found it so much easier to find recipes through TikTok. With its short video format, it makes it easy to go through recipe after recipe until I find one that works for me. It makes it so easy to watch the TikTok's when each step is concisely broken down and showed. The recipe is often times in the caption, and the comments are a great tool to browse through for tips and tricks from other people who have attempted the recipe. 

I find this works better (and quicker) for me than googling a recipe. With recipes found online, they often take you through a whole life stories worth of information. I could be scrolling for five minutes STRAIGHT before I even reach my ingredients list. Then, the website will malfunction and bring me ALLLLLLL the way to the top of the website where I have to scroll ALLLLLLLL the way back down and find the step I was on. 

Another recipe I tried out this week was for a banana bread matcha/coffee syrup. I had seen it all over my for you page and it looked good, and I love bananas, so I figured I'd give it a try. It turned out great and I even made a matcha with it this morning. This made me think back to our week 1 discussions of the distributions of information. I think its crazy how something could trend so quickly. It starts with one video, and then all of a sudden everyone is recreating and making it and posting their experiences. I think it really speaks to how quickly information can be distributed and shared through social media. 

In another course I am taking this semester, we are discussing some trends in instructional design, with one of them being microlearning. I think in the future (and probably soon), microlearning will become a big part of education and sharing of ideas and knowledge. Especially with TikTok and its popularity, and even Reels, I think a big part of the population is already used to consuming shortened media. I'd be interested to see microlearning take on more of a definitive definition and to see its growth in media and education as well. 

- Lydia 

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