This was a presentation to 9th graders to help them explore how to take control of their online persona. Examples reach back in time and project into the future when things like augmented reality amplify the information we put online.

1. Owning Your Life(at least online) Pat Sine Information Technology – Client Support & ServicesUniversity of Delaware

2. Teens on the Internet 93% of teens ages 12-17 go online Three-quarters (75%) of teens and 93% of adults ages 18-29 now have a cell phone 73% of wired American teens now use social networking websites Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010 American teenagers are using 3,146 messages a month, which translates into more than 10 messages every hour of the month that they are not sleeping or in school. Source: Neilsen.com, 2010

4. Image source info: “Wired Man” Uploaded to Flickr by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license on August 6, 2007

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6. What You’ve Been Told

7. Internet Safety Rules Don’t give out your name Don’t give out personal details Don’t meet online friends offline without your parents’ permission .

8. Update 2010

9. Online “Predators” and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor, and Kimberly J. Mitchell University of New Hampshire Michele L. YbarraInternet Solutions for Kids, Inc. American Psychologist, Feb-Mar 2008

10. Online Behaviors Disclosure of personal information Posted personal information Sent personal information Harassing behavior Made a rude or nasty remark Harassed or embarrassed someone Talking with someone met online Meeting someone online (number of ways) People in buddy list known only online (number of people) Sexual behavior Visited an X-rated Web site on purpose Talk about sex with someone known only online Other online activities Downloaded images from file-sharing programs

11. Engaging in 4 or more of these behaviors makes kids more likely to receive online sexual solicitations.

13. Names, email addresses, IM names

14. Info on your whereabouts or your habitsRULE 1: Be careful of the personal information you reveal online Names, email addresses, IM names Info on your whereabouts or your habits

16. Location – Aware Apps Foursquare Gowalla Pleaserobme.com

20. 4 Rules RULE 4: Understand: Putting small bits of information in many places on the web enables searchers (human or computer) to identify you, your interests, your activities and your location

22. http://personas.media.mit.edu

23. Movie – Digital Dossier www.digitalnative.org/MediaProjects/DigitalDossier/

24. Owning Your Life(at least online)

25. Psychology of CyberSpace John Suler www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html Ongoing updates 1996 to 2010

26. Can your child really protect and police himself?

27. What do parents need to know? Monitor your child’s cognitive ability. When is he or she old enough to make good judgments? Children progress from concrete to abstract thinking. Disinhibition Unrestrained behavior resulting from a lessening or loss of inhibitions or a disregard of cultural constraints. Technology often provides a perceived buffer from regular consequences a buffer from traditional social cues

28. You, The Victim

29. Harassment & Cyberbullying – 2008 Survey1,454 kids between the ages of 12 and 17 41 percent reported between one and three cyberbullying incidents during the year 13 percent reported four to six incidents 19 percent reported seven or more “In other words, no longer are victims of bullying relegated to the geeks and nerds of yore when it comes to the Internet.” http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/bullying-of-teenagers-online-is-64265.aspx

31. You, The Perp

32. http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/04/students_charged_for_afterscho.html

34. http://cbs3.com/topstories/Facebook.Williamstown.New.2.1531958.html

35. Movie – Think Before You Post www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbpKawqA6VQ

36. What can you do? Don’t let it start with you. Make it stop with you.

37. You, The Master

38. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a teenager. New Yorker Magazine,July 5, 1993

39. Chronicle of Higher Education Website, 11/14/2008

40. Your Brain Plasticity & Malleability “Is Google Making us Stupid?” "iBRAIN: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind." Image source: http://flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/421949167/

41. How does Google get so smart?

42. Page Rank Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_rank

43. Page Rank Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_rank

45. How does Wikipedia get so smart?

46. Wikipedia

48. What did I just see? Reputation Crowdsourcing

49. Own Your Own Life Tools Tools to make this work for you. Flickr Twitter Facebook YouTube Delicious or Diigo Wikipedia

50. http://theconversationprism.com/click/

51. First generation who doesn’t have to say “I don’t know” to a wide range of questions

52. Google and Goog411 Wikipedia 1-800-2CHACHA Wolfram Alpha Augumented Reality

54. Android Shopping App

55. Pocket Universe

56. But, what does this mean for ME?

57. Preparing for Your “Real Life” 21st Century Skills Critical Thinking Technology Applied to Problems Collaboration Locally – working in teams Broadly – drawing from many sources around the Net Globally – using tech tools to create new products with remote partners

58. Howard Rheingold “Loss of certainty about authority and credibility is one of the prices we pay for the freedom of democratized publishing. We can no longer trust the author to guarantee the veracity of work; today’s media navigators must develop critical skills in order to find their way through the oceans of information, misinformation, and disinformation now available.”

59. Tools to Make You Smart Diigo Google Alerts and iGoogle

60. Diigo – Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking

65. Google Alerts

66. Google Alerts and iGoogle

69. Tools to show the world you’re smart

70. Page Rank Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_rank

71. 25 Days to Make a Difference 10-year old girl sets out to honor her grandfather’s memory http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com

74. Your own YouTube Channel Corey Vidal Videographer Musician Self-employed http://www.youtube.com/coreyvidal His channel career spans dancing, singing, playing musical instruments, beatboxing, acting in short films (including a major short film production by Niagara College), solving Rubik's Cubes, video blogging, and collaborating with other YouTubers. (from Wikipedia)

77. Why? Careers 10 – 14 by age 42 Information 2003 – 5 exabytes 2006 – 161 exabytes 2010(est.) – 1 zettabyte Exabyte - 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 1018 Zettabyte - 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes - 1021.

78. Owning Your Life(at least online)

79. Internet Safety Rules for 2009 Monitor and manage your privacy settings Your email address(es) Post only what you don’t want to come back to haunt you Make the Internet serve you Create your own Internet persona

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81. My Internet persona can be found at www.udel.edu/sine