The document provides guidance on developing a digital identity and presence. It discusses analyzing needs and purpose, mapping a personal learning environment, and showcasing one's professional self. Tips are given for building an academic digital identity, including highlighting useful materials, seeking collaborators, and maintaining connections. The role of social media like Twitter, hashtags, and curating one's online presence are covered. Resources on personal learning networks, academic digital identities, and copyright issues are listed.

1. Create a Digital Footprint, or
one will be created for GRAD8101 Fall 2012
you…

2. from
randomized
to personalised
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3. Academic
Dr Alec Couros
So, now what?

4. About.Me

5. identity is
distributed
but connected
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6. http://tinyurl.com/5c5eck http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanvg/3382838948/size
s/l/
engagement
public & community
collaboration
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Photo by ♥KatB Photography♥
&
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Identity
Digital
Reputation
Presence

7. Getting Started...
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,
electronic/digital

8. Image from Learning with „e‟s http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-
ple.html

9. Digital Identity as Portfolio
showcase your professional self
attend to What?
and to So What?
before the job search Now What?
showcase your roles
embed your “unique”
share your passion
use your voice

10. how and where you
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11. Ross Dawson, Marketing facts, http://www.flickr.com/photos/marketingfacts/5573011085/, Attribution-
NonCommercial 2.0

12. Building an Academic Digital Identity
1
 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
Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/

13. Building an Academic Digital Identity
2
 Crowd source ask questions, gauge audience, expand resources
 Follow resources in real time
 Track entities professional organizations & conferences
 Curate resources social bookmarking for self, others, entities
 Post calls for readers, reviewers, papers, proposals in new realms
 Contribute resources open access
 Maintain connections
 Publish open access, peer reviewed
T ext
Using Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/

14. Twitter as…
collective
intelligence http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503019876@N01/1824234195

16. Twitter Conventions - Summarized
• @UMinnTeachLearn is our Twitter handle
• Messages that start @UMinnTeachLearn are
directed at us, and often expect a response
• Messages that contain @UMinnTeachLearn
are referencing us
• #phdchatUMN is a hashtag – a self generated
way of labelling dialogue on a topic

17. …even if you don‟t maintain your own blog!
hoto by M i x Y http://www.flickr.com/photos/25159380@N00/5053496835 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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
Creator
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. the importance of
following & followers
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20. tag it!
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21. which tools will you select?
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22. How might you curate your presence as a
Teacher? Researcher? Job seeker with one simple tool?

23. Ilene D. Alexander = Ilene Dawn Alexander =
IleneDawn
TEACHING NETWORKING
•http://myU.umn.edu - ida8101 •http://z.umn.edu
•http://slideshare.net/alexa032 * •http://umn.academia.edu/IleneAlexander
•http://www.scribd.com/IleneDawn * •http://www.linkedin.com/in/ilenedawn
•http://www.youtube.com/ilenedawn032
•http://www.diigo.com/user/ilenedawn * FUTURE
• pdworks
PERSONAL • Moodle
•http://blip.fm/ilenedawn • Tumblr
•https://www.facebook.com/IleneDawn * • VoiceThread - done
•About.me – done: http://about.me/IleneDawn
RESEARCH & LEARNING
•http://twitter.com/IleneDawn *
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilenedawn/ * = maintain work-related version of the platform, too
•http://UMinnTILT.wordpress.com

24. 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 - researcher blogging
• Creative Commons and Flickr

25. Ilene D. Alexander Cristina Costa
http://uminntilt.wordpress.com http://knowmansland.com
@IleneDawn @cristinacost
Thanks to Lucy Hawkins @CareersLucy & Kate Lindsay @KTDigital (University of Oxford) for their slideshare