This presentation was created for the Bloomsburg University Learning and Literacy Conference, May 24, 2013. The main source for the presentation may be found at Dr. Young's Online Professional Identity wiki: http://profwebid.wikispaces.com/

1. Image Source: Mary Hodder (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryhodder/123208237/)
Publishing & Sharing with Online Identity in
Mind & Critically Crafting Your Digital Footprint
Image Source: Anya Runyan (http://www.classycareergirl.com)
Carl A. Young
North Carolina State University
Bloomsburg University Literacy and Learning Conference
Friday, May 24, 2013
Session URL: http://profwebid.wikispaces.com/

2. Who are they? Who are you?
Who am I?

3. NCSU Home Page: http://ced.ncsu.edu/user/carl_young

6. Second Life

9. newlit.org

11. carl_young@ncsu.edu
slingtunes@gmail.com
cayoung7@gmail.com

12. Other facets of my online identity…
What a difference a year makes!

13. but enough about me, on to you...

14. Are you a publizen?
“See Me, Click Me”: Washington Post, 6-23-06

15. Informed Insights
• Student Perspective – more telling than we might think!
“If you’re not on MySpace [ ___ ], you don’t exist.”
- Skyler, 18, to her mom
Source: Danah Boyd (http://www.danah.org/) – Social Media researcher at MS
Research New England and Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for
Internet and Society.
• “Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American
teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost
synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now
online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites.
Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become
spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and
amplified—in both good and bad ways.”
• Source: Lenhart et al. (2011, Nov.). Pew Internet and American Life Report:
Teens, Kindess and Cruelty on Social Network Sites

16. Investigation Activity
1 – Choose a partner and introduce yourselves briefly.
2 – Conduct a brief web investigation of your partner and see what information you
can find about him/her online.
3 – Share what you find on Online Identity Padlet (see wiki or the URL is
http://padlet.com/wall/wds87065jh ). What did you find? Reactions? Possible
action steps?
4 – Next, evaluate the information you find about your partner from these three
perspectives (in other words, take on these personas and respond to what you
find):
a. a friend or colleague; b. a principal or school administrator, or an employer,
or a college admissions officer; c. the parent of one of your students, or your
parents or another relative
5 – If time, repeat the process above focusing on one of your students – choose one
student between the two of you and search about them online.
Next, on to the issues... (see the wiki!)

17. Thank you!
Carl A. Young, Ph.D.
NC State University
carl_young@ncsu.edu
Please see Carl’s related presentation wiki page at
http://profwebid.wikispaces.com/
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Q & A on Online Identity