beyond linkedin: new technologies for career development

Beyond LinkedIn

Meg Ecclestone, Instruction and Liaison Librarian, York UniversityKim Stymest, Business Librarian, York University

Your Personal Brand

ePortfolios: Showcase your talents

ePortfolios

• Control your online presence and persona• Use as an extension of your resume• Illustrate your reflective practice• Grapple with issues, skills, or challenges you

are facing• Showcase your talents in a variety of formats

ePortfolios: Getting Started

Blogging Platforms• Blogger• Wordpress• Google SitesDrag and drop websites• Weebly• Yola• Wix

Visual Resume Tools

• Visualcv.com• Visualize.me• About.me• Re.vu

Visual Resumes: A Cautionary Tale

Re.vu

About.me:

• Resume Design• Images• Learning Object Repositories

Gathering Inspiration

Images

• Flickr– “Only search within Creative Commons-licensed

content”• Haiku Deck• Google Images

Learning Object Repositories

PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials OnlineCORIL: Cooperative Online Repository for Information LiteracyMERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online TeachingQuest Garden

Supporting Multimedia

Screencasting

• Screen-o-matic• Jing• Captivate• Camtasia• Storyline by Articulate• Windows Movie maker• iMovie

Slides and PDFs, Social Media Archives

• Slideshare• Scribd• Storify

Infographics

• Infogr.am• Visual.ly• Pictochart

Data Sets

• Generate your own!• Wolfram Alpha• Wordbank.org

Your Professional Development

Your Professional Development

MOOCs• Coursera• EdX• UdacityOpen Courses • MIT Open Courseware• Open Yale CoursesFree Learning• Instructables• Khan Academy• Code Academy

Cheap Learning• SkillshareLibrary Learning (Cheap & Free)• ASIS&T Webinars• Libraries Thriving• IFLA New Librarians

webinars• JISC RSC

Connecting with your professional community

• Academia.edu• Mendeley• Twitter

#libchat#edchat#edtech#elearning#SLATalk

Closing Thoughts

Thank you! Questions?

Meg Ecclestonewww.meghanecclestone.com

Kim Stymeststymest@yorku.ca