Let's Tweet Up - 18 April Workshop

What social mediado you use?

What are your goals for today?

Have a look at examples in the outer ring of this diagram (also in handouts) and add your platforms into the tally on the white board.

Then add to the listing of “goals for today.”

Creating Digital Identities in Support of Research, Teaching &

Learning

18 March 2012

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So, now what?

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Getting Started...analyze your needs

determine your purpose and what best suits your needs

search out ‘your community’

map and plan to develop your full Personal Learning Environment - human, print, electronic/digital

Image from Learning with ‘e’s http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

Creating your reputation hub

bring it all together

attend to What? and to So What?

showcase your roles

embed your “unique”

share your passion

use your voice

Digital Identity as Portfolio

showcase your professional world

how and where you

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallritual/505772429

Build an Academic Digital Identity

Highlight material useful to colleagues

Seek collaborators

Source co-authors

Network with colleagues prior to conferences

Engage in research discussions

Review feeds from [colleagues at] conferences

Meet contacts, mentors, peers, collaborators

Follow calls for funds & calls for participants at seminars

Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/

Build an Academic Digital Identity Crowd source ask questions, gauge audience, expand

resources

Follow resources in real time

Track entities professional organizations & conferences

Curate resources social bookmarking for self, others, entities

Post calls for readers, reviewers, papers, proposals in new realms

Contribute resources open access

Maintain connections

Publish open access, peer reviewedTUsing Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/ext

what’s the value of twitter?

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• @UMinnTeachLearn is our Twitter handle

• Messages that start @UMinnTeachLearn are directed at us, and often expect a response

• Messages that contain @UMinnTeachLearn are referencing us

• #phdchatUMN is a hashtag – a self generated way of labelling dialogue on a topic

Twitter Conventions - Summarized

How might you be a blogger without hosting a blog?

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How might you curate your presence as aTeacher? Researcher? Job seeker?

What can be your style(s)?Audience

Use what is there, use email, access information, maybe register accounts on FB, watch youtube, maybe use in presentations, text on mobile, largely individualized activity

Creator

Use and create what is there, create video, sound, upload, keep a blog, update, use FB for social events, use smart phone, access, join and participate in existing networks

Disruptor

Create new networks, develop activities based on real-time events and breaking news, main space of professional identity is online, rigorously maintained, download apps onto smartphone and extend

Using Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity, by Lorraine Warren; http://www.slideshare.net/doclorraine/trondheim-march-2010/

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which tools will you select?

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Ilene D. Alexander = Ilene Dawn Alexander = IleneDawn

SummaryIf timely communication, engagement, relationships and conversation are considered of value to academic activities then, if used effectively, platforms such as Twitter can have a marked impact.

But if we think of a role of academic work to engage with people, to spark conversations and debate, pull together specialists in a field to network we find the value of social media. Social media pulls insiders out, and allows outsiders in to organizations, so that they can create a more meaningful relationship between themselves and their academic work and communities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYP-wBaqQAI and @KTDigital

Select Resources• Personal Learning Network - WikiPODia

• Weblossary and Glossary of Key Terms

• Twitter - WikiPODia

• Christina Costa - academic digital identity

• Lorraine Warren - online academic identity

• Your Twitter Community - hashtag basics

• Creating Your Own Hashtag - video

• Academic Tweeters - lists and lists

• Seth Godin & Tom Peters - blogging

• Gareth Morris - researchers blogging

• Creative Commons and Flickr

Ilene D. Alexander

http://uminntilt.wordpress.com

@IleneDawn

Cristina Costa

http://knowmansland.com

@cristinacost

Thanks to Lucy Hawkins @CareersLucy & Kate Lindsay @KTDigital (University of Oxford) for their slideshare presentations.