This document provides an overview and recap of Workshop 4 from the Student Ambassador for Digital Literacy (SADL) project. It discusses managing your digital identity and footprint online, including performing searches to discover what information about yourself is publicly available online. It encourages participants to reflect on their digital presence and identity through curating social media profiles. Tips are provided for improving your digital presence, including being mindful of how you present yourself both personally and professionally online. The workshop also addresses recording and sharing video reflections on what participants have learned from their involvement in the SADL project.

1. Workshop 4:
Managing your digital identity and the digital future

2. Hello again!
#SADLw4

3. Recap from Workshop 3
• What is a student ambassador for digital
literacy?
• Managing information
• Understanding plagiarism and good academic
practice in writing
• Review of the Moodle resources

4. Moodle: The Library Companion

5. Your thoughts
• What do you think of the library companion
resources on citing and referencing?
– How would you like these resources to be
presented? In Moodle? In this place in Moodle?
• Which resources are useful?
– Advice about how to cite? Advice about reference
management tools? Advice about plagiarism?
Other?

6. Digital footprint and
identity
• Everything uploaded on
to the web that’s
attributed to you forms
your digital footprint
• Digital identity / profile
is how you manage the
way you appear online

7. Activity – What is your digital
footprint?
In pairs:
each other
• Share with each other:
– What kinds of information you found?
– Which websites hosted this information?
– Did anything surprise you or worry you?
All images sourced from Wikimedia commons

8. Why does it matter?

9. Your Digital Profile video –
London Metropolitan University
Chris O’Reilly – Your Digital Profile (2014). London Metropolitan University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AiK-qxoy0s

10. Social Media and Social
Networking
Networking Media
All images sourced from Wikimedia commons

11. Personal and Professional?
All images sourced from Wikimedia commons

12. Activity – 5 tips to improve
your digital presence
• In groups of 4:
– Come up with 5 tips on managing digital identity
– Think about concepts such as online safety, using social
media to communicate strategically and how you could
use social media to display your skills and creativity

13. Recording your thoughts
• What is the most important
thing you have learned in the
SADL project?
• Why is the student
ambassador role important?
• What have you found out
about your digital footprint
today?

14. Tips for making better videos
• Piece to camera / interview?
• Which device to use? Your
phone? A flip camera? Laptop
camera?
• Please use the extra rooms we
have booked
• Share your videos with us
• Consent form

15. SADL Party!
• We are planning one final celebration
– What is the date of your last exam?
– When are you going home i.e. not in London?
• Please complete our post project
questionnaire which will be emailed to you
• Would you like to be involved next year?

16. Thank you!

17. Getting further help and staying in
touch
• SADL project blog:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl/
• Facebook group:
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/76039193
7307254/
• SADL in the news:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl/conferences-
presentations-and-staff-development/