Creating Digital Identities in Support of Research, Teaching & Learning

1. Creating Digital Identities in Support of Research, Teaching & Learning • 26 October 2011

2. Build an Academic Digital Identity • Highlight material useful to colleagues • Seek collaborators • Source co-authors • Network with colleagues prior to conferences • Engage in research discussions • Review feeds from [colleagues at] conferences • Meet contacts, mentors, peers, collaborators • Follow calls for funds & calls for participants at seminars • Maintain connections T TUsing Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/ext

3. Build an Academic Digital Identity • Crowd source to ask questions to quickly gauge opinion & expand idea / information base • Follow sources such as Guardian Science & Chronicle of Global Education in real time • Track professional orgs, conferences, journals • Curate resources, links & web sites via social bookmarking sites • Post calls for readers, reviewers, papers, RFPs that move beyond your sphere of influence • Contribute to repositories to share your presentations to enact open access Text TUsing Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/ext

4. from anonymous to personalised http://www.flickr.com/photos/sd/7746599/

5. Academic Dr Alec Couros

6. identity is distributed but connected http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3983055366

7. Image from Learning with ‘e’s http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

8. Getting Started... • analyze your needs • determine your purpose and what best suits your needs • search out ‘your community’ • map and determine your full Personal Learning Environment - human, print, electronic

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanvg/3382838948/sizes/l/ collaboration http://www.flickr.com/photos/56695083@N00/4464828517/sizes/l/ digital Presence = Identity & Reputation Photo by ♥KatB Photography♥ public & community engagement • http://tinyurl.com/5c5eck

10. Creating your reputation hubbring it all together Portfolio of Practice showcase your professional world • define your purpose • describe your “unique” • share your passion • shape your identities • call on your voice

11. Created by Ross Dawson, Marketing facts, http://www.flickr.com/photos/marketingfacts/5573011085/, Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)

12. how and where you http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallritual/505772429

13. what’s the value of twitter? collective intelligence http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503019876@N01/1824234195

14. the importance offollowing & followers http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardsofblue/5581115611

15. tag it! http://www.flickr.com/photos/83346641@N00/3814523970

16. what are the components of a blog mediated digital identity? Photo bt M i x Y http://www.flickr.com/photos/25159380@N00/5053496835(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

17. what to blog about?where to blog? http://www.flickr.com/photos/38307206@N02/3634843977

18. What can be your style(s)? • Audience • Use what is there, use email, access information, maybe register accounts on FB, watch youtube, maybe use in presentations, text on mobile, largely individualized activity • Creators • Use and create what is there, create video, sound, upload, keep a blog, update, use FB for social events, use smart phone, access, join and participate in existing networks • Disruptor • Create new networks, develop activities based on real-time events and breaking news, main space of professional identity is online, rigorously maintained, download apps onto smartphone and extend • Using Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/

19. how do they know? http://www.flickr.com/photos/21496790@N06/5065834411

21. which tools are you using? http://www.flickr.com/photos/petermartinhall/2905767476/

22. Ilene D. Alexander = Ilene Dawn Alexander = IleneDawn • TOOLS • http://z.umn.edu • http://umn.academia.edu/IleneAlexander • http://www.linkedin.com/in/ilenedawn • TEACHING • http://myU.umn.edu - ida8101, idaportal • http://slideshare.net/alexa032 * • http://www.scribd.com/IleneDawn • http://www.youtube.com/ilenedawn032 • http://www.diigo.com/user/ilenedawn * • PERSONAL • http://blip.fm/ilenedawn • https://www.facebook.com/IleneDawn * • RESEARCH & LEARNING • https://twitter.com/IleneDawn * • http://morelearning4morestudents.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ * • http://www.flickr.com/photos/61866647@N03/sets/ • Skype - IleneDawn • FUTURE • UMConnect / Unite • MediaMill • iTunesU • Zipcast / Blackboard Collaborate

23. Select Resources • Personal Learning Network - WikiPODia • Weblossary and Glossary of Key Terms • Twitter - WikiPODia • Christina Costa - academic digital identity • Lorraine Warren - online academic identity • Your Twitter Community - hashtag basics • Creating Your Own Hashtag - video • Academic Tweeters - lists and lists • Seth Godin & Tom Peters - blogging • Gareth Morris - researchers blogging • Creative Commons and Flickr

24. Cristina Costa http://virtual-doc.salford.ac.uk/pgrs/ @cristinacost Ilene D. Alexander http://uminntilt.wordpress.com/ @IleneDawn