Thoughtfully Inked

Julie Mitchell, UBC LibraryCindy Underhill, CTLT

Key Question

How can you support teacher candidates to be engaged digital citizens while being mindful of the policies and standards that govern their profession?

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Outline

Literacies Complexity of the Online Environment Portfolio Development Social Media Strategies

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Student’s concerns?

Developing an audience

Raising awareness

Building a “brand”

Building professional

profile

Attention Participation Network Smarts Privacy

literaciesReference: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:Digital_Literacy_Framework CU

Teacher Regulation Branch

“ The Supreme Court of Canada has determined that educators are held to a higher standard than other citizens due to their unique role in society.”

From: Teacher Regulation Branch

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Discussion Activity What does “higher standard” mean in the

context of social media?

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Complexity of Online Environment

Dynamics that influence what we do online– Anonymity – Persistence– Replicability– Searchability– Scalability

 From: boyd, danah. 2009. "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"

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The audience can be invisibleand anonymous

Online Environment | Persistence

what you (or others) put on the internet stays there

The good

The bad

The ugly

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Online Environment |Replicability

Content can be taken out of context

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Online Environment |Scalability

Scalability: what’s intended for one reaches many

Online Environment | Searchability

Story| Replicability & Scalability

Image credit: Flickr user OldShoeWomanJM

Story| Searchability

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Portfolios: Reflections

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Portfolios: Images

Faces blurred – meets requirements?

What about student work?

Image licensed for re-use creative commons – not children from her class

cited: but not to the original source

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Considerations What is identifying information? Where might I use privacy settings to protect

students while contributing authentic reflections?

Am I contributing to the digital tattoo of my students?

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Copyright

Infringing copyright is a serious matter and UBC requires each of its faculty, staff and students to comply with copyright law and the terms of the UBC Copyright Requirements.

http://copyright.ubc.ca/requirements/copyright-guidelines/

Portfolios: Resources Privacy settings on UBC blogs:

http://blogs.ubc.ca/support/faq/#Privacy_and_Security Use of Student Images and Work Agreement (TEO) Copyright guides:

– http://copyright.ubc.ca/help-and-resources/image-citation-guide/

– http://copyright.ubc.ca/help-and-resources/creative-commons-guide/

– http://copyright.ubc.ca/help-and-resources/why-should-i-care/

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Social Media: Learning Opp

“I despise Twitter, truthfully. I think it’s one of the worst things that’s been created in my lifetime, and so there’s no way I’m going to go on it. …” – Prof. Stephen Toope

(UBC President)

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Social Media: Learning Opp

“I am proud to say that my school district has welcomed Twitter. We have our own hashtag stream where people from the district and outside of the district share, collaborate, and celebrate all in the name of improving education. We also have recently started holding a weekly chat time every Sunday night where people who are interested gather on our hashtag stream to chat about a preplanned topic. The topics have included inquiry based learning, assessment practices, and success stories. Weekly chats like this are happening all over Twitter.” – Iram Khan: UBC Alumni, administrator and teacher

CUFrom: The Value of Twitter: An Open Letter to Stephen Toope, President of UBC CanTeach – June3, 2013

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Source: http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/sikh-reddit-response/CU

Balpreet’s response:

Source: http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/sikh-reddit-response/

Social Media: Learning Opp

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Social Media: Teaching Opp What role do you think teacher’s play in helping

their students become responsible digital citizens and how do you prepare them to do that?

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Mashups, memes and media

Source: http://www.quickmeme.com (Mckayla Maroney and Success Kid)CU

Mashups, memes and media

CUSource: http://mashable.com/2012/05/10/child-memes/

Strategies

Create some guidelines/ ground rules around cell phone use for photos and videos of teachers and students.

Discuss school as a “safe space” for learning – what does that mean in context of sharing texts, videos and images?

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Strategies

Profile pruning Restricting sharing settings Remove or restrict access to any pictures,

messages or videos you would not want the public to see from your online profile

Asking friends not to tag photos of you

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Strategies

LinkedIn– Professional networking– Invest time creating your profile– Connect with other educators

Edmodo– Teacher specific social networking tool– Connect with colleagues, publishers and resources– Join over 33 million teachers and students safely

connecting in online classrooms, collaborating on assignments, discovering new resources, and more!

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Strategies

Create a thoughtful, well-written blog about your goals or interests. Post comments on others’ blogs and use your full name

Participate in professional discussions on Twitter via hashtags

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Strategies

Create a personal website and link to and from various pages within and outside your website – this will increase your “page rank”

Buy your own domain name Tag first & last name on photos

that represent your professional self

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Final thoughts

If we have provoked some thought, how might that influence your practise moving forward?

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Design your digital tattoo...

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part of a profession

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Resources BC College of Teachers: Standards, Questions and Case Studies

http://www.bcct.ca/Standards/QuestionsCaseStudiesContents.aspx# boyd, danah. 2009. "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" Microsoft Research Tech

Fest, Redmond, Washington, February 26. Retrieved March 10, 2009: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/MSRTechFest2009.html

Digital Tattoo: digitaltattoo.ubc.ca Madden, M., Fox, S., Smith, A., & Vitak, J. (2007).

Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency. Pew/Internet.

McBride, Melanie (2010) http://melaniemcbride.net/2009/08/27/putting-the-social-justice-in-social-media-pedagogy/

Ontario College’s “Use of Electronic Communication and Social Media” http://www.oct.ca/publications/PDF/Prof_Adv_Soc_Media_EN.pdf

Rego, B. (2009). Teachers Guide to Using Facebook. Richardson, W. (2008, January). Teaching Civics with Social Web Tools. District Administration,

44(1), 56-56. Rosen, Jeffrey (2010) The Web Means the End of Forgetting, New York Times. Quan, Douglas (2010) Facebook Blurs Line Between Teacher and Friend, Vancouver Sun.

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