How do you present yourself online? Consider this as you develop your personal biography, itemize your skills, and share your talents.

1. Have You Thought
About Your Personal
Presentation [Online]
LTEC 4121/5121: Module 1

2. Module 1: Learning Goals
1. Outline what your digital stamp is on, social
media and online that impacts your personal
presentation of self
2. Develop a short biographic overview of you, your
talents, and expertise.
3. Identify social and digital tools that might work
for you to communicate, collaborate, and interact
with other professionals.

3. Presenting Your
[Digital] Self…
Start with you. Have you thought about your digital self lately? Let’s get selfish…

4. What’s a “Selfie”?
Syllabification: sel·fie
Pronunciation: /ˈselfē /
NOUN (plural selfies)
INFORMAL
A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one
taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via
social media

5. Exhibit A – Perpetual Celeb #Selfie

6. Exhibit B
Dangerous
Adventure #Selfie

7. Exhibit C – What I’m Doing Now #Selfie

8. Your Social & Digital Identity IS Your Identity
• Have you Googled Yourself Lately? http://lmgtfy.com/
• Online and Offline Selves = I.R.L. (In real life)
• Screen Time (TED Radio Hour) Part I & Part II [must listen/watch]
• IRL Podcast via Mozilla [Must listen]: https://irlpodcast.org/

9. Reflect About Your Digital Self
REFLECT: Journal #1

10. Visitor and Resident Continuum
This is not a binary item. It’s about you socially and digitally reflecting about your
online self.
(White & Le Cornu, 2011)

11. Educational Stages
(Connaway, White, & Lanclos , 2011; White
& LeCornu, 2017)

12. Visitors
• Using the web for a purpose.
• “leave no trace” – the have no social persona online
• Web as a collection of tools, expert(ise), search
• Private, Individual, Content, Goal oriented ,
converging, quantitative

13. Resident
• They “live” out a portion of their life online; social
latency when offline for a while
• Web as a “space”, social, communal
• Does not mean collaborative; can be part of a
community but still isolated
• visible, nebulous, qualitative, a-work-in-progress,
networked, personal(ized)

14. Visitor Resident
Personal
Professional

15. Personal vs. Professional
It all depends on the context, right? Let’s look at your
personal and professional (institutional self) in these digital
spaces, tools, platforms, and technologies.
Think about YOU. Not your “brand,” but your values,
mission, and true self. How are they lived out online? What
does your social and digital persona say about you?

19. Visitor Resident
Personal
Professional

20. Visitor Resident
Personal
Professional

22. What’s Your Motivation For Being
or Becoming A Resident?
Not about technical skills, but rather how people approach the technology
Culture & Motivation
Are we moving into a postdigital or post technical space?
Digital literacies & digital skills – it’s more about socio-cultural perspectives

23. Communication
Digital literacy is a skill that needs to be developed.
Are you modeling and mentoring effective communication online?

24. The Digital Skills Framework

26. Model & Mentor Identity
• Do you like spam? Do you like “bots”?
Professionals don’t either.
• What value do you want to share ?
• What information do you disseminate?
• Start with these questions, and then add
in personality and variety.

27. Image c/o http://blog.us.cision.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SM-Policy-Image.bmp
Where do you “live”
online & connect
with professionals?

28. Digital Identity: Your Online Traces
What could an online persona do to help support your professional self?
- What’s online about you?
- How do you “present” yourself on
the web?
- What do you want to say about
your experience & talents?

29. Motivation [To Leave
a Social Trace]
Not about technical skills, but rather how people approach the technology
Culture & Motivation - Are we moving into a post digital or post technical space?

31. #ugstSTORY

32. Live
Tweets
to take
Notes

34. #ODUadvise

35. What Employers Want…
• Critical thinking
• Problem-solving
• Technical skills
• Leadership
• Teamwork
Jobs Outlook 2017 via NACE

36. When I graduate I
want to be able to
show __________.
#AcAdv

37. Integrity [To Support
& Listen]
Digital literacies & digital skills – it’s more about socio-cultural perspectives.
How are we being “present” with others online? How are we showing empathy?

38. Image c/o Luke Mahan http://www.flickr.com/photos/kremovich/4471473109/
Find a Space…
Web 2.0
#SocialMedia
Social Web
New Media
Platform
App

39. Digital Identity Development in Your
Professional Communities
• Open honest identities create
vehicles for relationship building
• How can our identities be present
online
• What considerations for data &
privacy do you have in your career
field?

40. Twitter for Idiots
“…people have to get Twitter before
even thinking about such things and I’m
not totally sure that you can teach
people to get Twitter? People get Twitter
by using it.” ~ Andy Powell

41. What’s hashtag do you follow on _____?

42. -Have a chat
-Share resources
-Offer support
-Ask questions
-Learning
-To be social…
Personal Learning: Informal Learning

43. “It’s not about
the technology,
it’s all social”
- Tanya Joosten (@tjoosten)

45. • Use of social media & technology does not
mean sensitive data will be shared.
EDUCATE yourself!!!!
• Like all things, proper training & support
are needed:
• -protocols
• -privacy
• -challenges
• -suggested
practices

46. What Happens On Campus Goes On YouTube
• Shout out to @ACPA & @equalman + MORE!
• #ACPAdigital http://digitaltaskforce.myacpa.org/

47. 1. Be social
2. Respond
3. Share
4. Connect
5. Start the conversation
6. Keep it going: make time
Flickr photo c/o furiousgeorge81
Be a Participant

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