A brief workshop on how to develop your digital presence as a scholar.

1. Tending your digital presence
Religious Education Association
6 November 2014

2. a digital presence is...
• a way for people to find you
• a way to build context for your work intentionally
• no longer a choice
• an opportunity

3. a path forward...
• identity markers (orcid): how do people find YOU? how do they know it’s you?
• social media
• formal publication (institutional archives, cloud archives, emerging formats)
• popular publication (Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, etc.)
• institutional presence
• teaching portfolios
• managing your time and attention

4. remember: these are simply examples and
opportunities, no one would use all of them!

5. orcid
• ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to
provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a
transparent method of linking research activities and
outputs to these identifiers.
• individuals can register to acquire a unique id which can
then can be used with multiple digital tools
• ImpactStory, FigShare, SlideShare, etc.

6. building a cloud presence in social media

7. formal publication

8. building a cloud presence through individual archiving

9. informal publication

10. Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, Wabash blogs, etc.

11. your own sites (blogging, pinterest, instagram, etc.)

12. building a cloud presence through blogging

13. institutional support

14. institutional digital presence

15. open access
• open access policies, COAPI
• institutional archives (Harvard, MIT, etc.)
• reporting on institutional archives and open access
• and also some ideas about impact factors…

16. teaching portfolios
• a teaching portfolio is a structured way to reflect upon your teaching practices
• when built using mentoring and collaboration, it can be a robust form of
assessment practice
• such a process builds capacity for reflective teaching, and an institutional culture
focused on learning
• does not need to be digital, but is perhaps more portable in digital form

17. resources
• Creating a teaching portfolio (Washington University)
• Developing a teaching philosophy statement (Washington University)
• Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching portfolio resources
• Peter Seldin’s book The Teaching Portfolio

18. time and attention management...
• find ways to use your writing in multiple formats (blog something, and have the
post sent automatically to your social media status; tweet something and have it
go automatically to your blog)
• use social media to listen, at least as much as to express
• make clear your policies about social media and email at the beginning of
classes
• schedule time for your online work -- and then do not let it bleed into your other
work/writing practices
• build e-notifications that help you rather than distract you

19. Q&A