Have You Thought About Your Personal

Presentation [Online]?LTEC 4121/5121: Module 1

Module 1: Learning Goals1. Outline what your digital stamp is on, social

media and online that impacts your personal presentation of self

2. Develop a short biographic overview of you, your talents, and expertise.

3. Identify social and digital tools that might work for you to communicate, collaborate, and interact with other professionals.

Presenting Your [Digital] Self…

Start with you. Have you thought about your digital self lately? Let’s get selfish…

What’s a “Selfie”? Syllabification: sel·fie

Pronunciation: /ˈselfē /

NOUN (plural selfies)

INFORMALA photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one

taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media

Exhibit A – Perpetual Celeb #Selfie

Exhibit BDangerous Adventure #Selfie

Exhibit C – What I’m Doing Now #Selfie

Your Social & Digital Identity IS Your Identity• Have you Googled Yourself Lately? http://lmgtfy.com/• Online and Offline Selves = I.R.L. (In real life) • Screen Time (TED Radio Hour) Part I & Part II [must listen/watch] • IRL Podcast via Mozilla [Must listen]: https://irlpodcast.org/

Reflect About Your Digital Self

REFLECT: Journal #1

Visitor and Resident Continuum

This is not a binary item. It’s about you socially and digitally reflecting about your online self.

(White & Le Cornu, 2011)

Educational Stages

(Connaway, White, & Lanclos , 2011; White & LeCornu, 2017)

Visitors• Using the web for a purpose.

• “leave no trace” – the have no social persona online

• Web as a collection of tools, expert(ise), search

• Private, Individual, Content, Goal oriented , converging, quantitative

Resident• They “live” out a portion of their life online; social

latency when offline for a while

• Web as a “space”, social, communal

• Does not mean collaborative; can be part of a community but still isolated

• visible, nebulous, qualitative, a-work-in-progress, networked, personal(ized)

Visitor Resident

Personal

Professional

Personal vs. ProfessionalIt all depends on the context, right? Let’s look at your personal and professional (institutional self) in these digital spaces, tools, platforms, and technologies.

Think about YOU. Not your “brand,” but your values, mission, and true self. How are they lived out online? What does your social and digital persona say about you?

Visitor Resident

Personal

Professional

Visitor Resident

Personal

Professional

What’s Your Motivation For Being or Becoming A Resident?

Not about technical skills, but rather how people approach the technology

Culture & Motivation

Are we moving into a postdigital or post technical space?

Digital literacies & digital skills – it’s more about socio-cultural perspectives

CommunicationDigital literacy is a skill that needs to be developed.

Are you modeling and mentoring effective communication online?

The Digital Skills Framework

Model & Mentor Identity

• Do you like spam? Do you like “bots”? Professionals don’t either.

• What value do you want to share ?

• What information do you disseminate?

• Start with these questions, and then add in personality and variety.

Image c/o http://blog.us.cision.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SM-Policy-Image.bmp

Where do you “live” online & connect with professionals?

Digital Identity: Your Online TracesWhat could an online persona do to help support your professional self?

- What’s online about you?

- How do you “present” yourself on the web?

- What do you want to say about your experience & talents?

Motivation [To Leave a Social Trace]

Not about technical skills, but rather how people approach the technology

Culture & Motivation - Are we moving into a post digital or post technical space?

#ugstSTORY

Live

Tweets

to take

Notes

#ODUadvise

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What Employers Want…

• Critical thinking

• Problem-solving

• Technical skills

• Leadership

• Teamwork

Jobs Outlook 2017 via NACE

When I graduate I want to be able to

show __________.

#AcAdv

Integrity [To Support & Listen]

Digital literacies & digital skills – it’s more about socio-cultural perspectives.

How are we being “present” with others online? How are we showing empathy?

Image c/o Luke Mahan http://www.flickr.com/photos/kremovich/4471473109/

Find a Space…

Web 2.0

#SocialMedia

Social Web

New Media

Platform

App

Digital Identity Development in Your Professional Communities

• Open honest identities create vehicles for relationship building

• How can our identities be present online

• What considerations for data & privacy do you have in your career field?

Twitter for Idiots“…people have to get Twitter before even thinking about such things and I’m not totally sure that you can teach people to get Twitter? People get Twitter by using it.” ~ Andy Powell

What’s hashtag do you follow on _____?

-Have a chat

-Share resources

-Offer support

-Ask questions

-Learning

-To be social…

Personal Learning: Informal Learning

“It’s not about the technology, it’s all social”

- Tanya Joosten (@tjoosten)

• Use of social media & technology does not mean sensitive data will be shared. EDUCATE yourself!!!!

• Like all things, proper training & support are needed:

• -protocols• -privacy• -challenges• -suggested

practices

What Happens On Campus Goes On YouTube

• Shout out to @ACPA & @equalman + MORE!• #ACPAdigital http://digitaltaskforce.myacpa.org/

1. Be social

2. Respond

3. Share

4. Connect

5. Start the conversation

6. Keep it going: make time

Flickr photo c/o furiousgeorge81

Be a Participant

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