Strategies for Beginning to Establish a Digital Presence Tuesday, November 12, 3:00 - 5:00pm | 3-180 Keller Hall Participants in this session will discuss strategies for making use of social media to build a scholarly digital presence and establish professional networks as scholars, researchers and teachers. Participants are encouraged to bring laptops or mobile devices.

2. Establishing a
Digital Presence
Grad School Workshop Fall 2013

3. What? So What?
Now what?

4. Identity is Distributed
but Connected

5. Social / Socialising
Scholarly

6. Digital Presence
Identity and Reputation

7. Getting Started
Environment
Personal Learning

9. analyze your needs
determine your purpose and what
best suits your needs
search out ‘your community’
map and plan to develop your
full Personal Learning Environment:
human, print & digital resources
Getting Started
Your
“Unique”

10. begin with What?
add So What?
move on to Now What?
showcase your roles
embed your “unique”
share your passion
use your voice
Getting Started
Digital Identity as
Portfolio

11. Cousin?
Teacher?
Scholar?
Blogger?
Minnesota?
Manchester?
@IleneDawn
@UMinnTeachLearn
alexa032 – umn google
ilene.dawn – personal google
Ida8101 – teaching google
Getting Started
Avatar:
Image + Bio + ID

12. Ilene Alexander =
Ilene D. Alexander =
Ilene Dawn Alexander =
IleneDawn
TEACHING
•http://myU.umn.edu
•http://slideshare.net/alexa032
•http://www.scribd.com/IleneDawn
•http://www.youtube.com/ilenedawn032
•http://www.diigo.com/user/ilenedawn
PERSONAL
•https://www.facebook.com/IleneDawn
•http://Morelearning4morestudents.com
RESEARCH & LEARNING
•http://UMinnTILT.wordpress.com
NETWORKING
•http://umn.academia.edu/IleneAlexander
•http://www.linkedin.com/in/ilenedawn
http://about.me/IleneDawn
* = maintain work-related version of the platform,
too

13. https://www.google.com/search?
q=ilene+alexander&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:enUS:official&client=firefox-a
I D. A
https://www.google.com/search?q
=ilene+alexander&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:enUS:official&client=firefoxa#q=ilene+d.+alexander&rls=org.
mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial
IDawnA
https://www.google.com/search?q
=ilene+alexander&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:enUS:official&client=firefoxa#q=ilene+d.+alexander&rls=org.
mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial
IleneDawn
https://www.google.com/search?q
=ilene+alexander&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:enUS:official&client=firefoxa#q=Ilene+Dawn&rls=org.mozilla:
en-US%3Aofficial
IA

14. Voltaire
Networking
1694 – 1778
Identity and/as/in

15. Troublesome Knowledge
challenge to existing beliefs &
practices; conceptually
difficult
Liminality
suspended state of partial
understanding or stuck place
Threshold Knowledge
portal to understanding
previously unknown
knowledge
Liminality

16. Navigation
judiciously plan routes to learning
and participation in learning
Transformative Reflection
openly reflect on practice, seek
community support and selforganization as a learner
Community Sense Making
seek context to determine audience,
core community, and build reciprocal
relationships in new/existing networks
Orienteering

17. Building Your 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,

18. Building Your Digital Identity
 Crowd source questions, audience,
resources
 Follow resources in real time
 Track entities professional orgs &
conferences
 Curate resources bookmark citations
 Share calls for reviewers, papers,
proposals
 Contribute resources open access

19. Which tools
will you use?

20. Twitter
Collective Intelligence

21. Twitter
No egg face

23. Tag It!

24. Find and follow people with
similar interests
#learning
#fycChat
Share a resource & take time
to build a thread
RT / MT
Post a message
Link to a thread
Ask a question
#ida8101
Start a conversation
Reference another person
@

25. Audience
Use what is there: email & text, access information, view
YouTube; may use in presentations. Individualized
activity.
Creator
Use & create with what is there: upload slides, video,
audio; blog; update, use personal social media via smart
phone; access, join, participate in social networks.
Disruptor
Create new networks; create hashtags for real-time
events; contribute new ideas as part of professional
identity; online identity curated; select range of apps for
professional life.
What can be
your style(s)?

26. Curate
Connect
Contribute
Communicate
Networking
Following
Followers

27. Curate
As teacher
As researcher

28. Curate
Scholar
Job Seeker

29. Connect
Making, Sharing & Tracking
Notes
Words, Images, Sounds &
More

30. Connect
Storing & Sharing (Your)
Files
Public and Private

31. Connect
Storing & Sharing
(Their) Files
Public and Private

32. Connect:
Bibliographic
References

33. Contribute:
Open Access
* teaching, learning & research
* resources in public domain
* Creative Commons license

34. Contribute:
Open Academic

35. Communicate:
Blog
With or without your own site

36. Communicate:
Researching Teaching
Network

37. What? So What?
Will Be Your Identity as a Digital Scholar? Now What?

38. The degree to which a
product, device, course, or
environment is available to as
many people as possible;
typically associated with
people with disabilities and
their right to access services,
employment and education
with as few barriers as
possible.
Usability
The extent to which a product
(such as a device, service, or
environment) can be used by
specified users to achieve
specified goals.
Universal Design
A framework for creating
goals, methods, materials,
and assessments that result
in a flexible and fair approach
to curricular design – an
approach that generates
accessible environments.
Accessibility
Is More Than Access

39. Ilene D. Alexander
morelearning4morestudents.co
m
@IleneDawn
Thanks to Lucy Hawkins @CareersLucy & Kate Lindsay @KTDigital (University of Oxford) for their slideshare