Digital identity, Digital literacies, Learning with social media

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 kliefi Digital identity | Digital literacies | Learning with social media Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin | catherine.cronin@nuigalway 17th November 2011 Perspectives in the Digital Age, BA Information Technology, NUI Galway

CC BY-NC 2.0 Dean Shareski

“Students will not simply pass through a course like water through a sieve,but instead leave their own imprint on the learning process.” ~ Bryn Holmes (2001)

What digital toolsdo you use most?Searching Learning Creating Sharing

SOCIAL MEDIA use of web 2.0 technologies to create & exchange user-generated content (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010) SOCIAL NETWORKINGusers create profiles, connect w/ other users, view connections, create content, etc. (boyd, 2010)

DI digital identity“digital footprint”

PersistentReplicable ScalableSearchable - danah boyd

What’s your Digital Identity?“digital footprint”

How to find out your DI...“digital footprint”  Google  Google Alert  google.com/dashboard  spezify.com  piple.com  tweetcloud  intel.com/museumofme

privacy“digital footprint”

If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.

digital literacy

digital literacyiesinformation media academic

searchCC BY-NC-ND 2.0 catd_mitchell

There are other search engines! Bing Yahoo! WebCrawler Dogpile DuckDuckGo ...

Let’s talk about Google Google search options (left column) Google Advanced Search Google Scholar To set preferences for NUIG Library within Google Scholar:  click Advanced Scholar Search  click Advanced Search Tips  click Library Links  click Scholar Preferences  enter "NUI Galway" and click Find Library

Some questions...1. How do I find recent articles?2. How do I find Irish examples?3. How do I find recent journal articles?4. How do I get full text of articles, if not available on Google Scholar?

search... there‟s more!CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 catd_mitchell

Eli Pariser (2011) The Filter Bubblewww.thefilterbubble.com

Search results we are served are based onwhat we have clicked on in the past...Search technologies make the worldsinformation “universally accessible”,as Googles motto puts it, but it is not “makinguniversal knowledge universally accessible”. Siva Vaidhyanathan The Googlization of Everything

crowdsourcing CC BY-ND 2.0 loop_oh

Twitter

Twitterfor learning

http://storyful.com/catherinecronin/1000012240

Keeping track of source, links, websites... How do you do this now?

social bookmarking“the tag is the soul of the internet” - Derrick de Kerckhove

http://delicious.com/cicronin

CONNECTCC BY-NC 2.0 DO CC BY_NC 2.0 Jamie Pichora SHARE CC BY_NC 2.0 youngdoo

curation

curation“select, organize and look after the items in a collection (or exhibition)” - Meriam Webster Dictionary

digital curation

digital curation “organizing, filtering and„making sense of‟ information on the web and sharing the very best of content with your network” - Judy O’Connell

if we paused the web for 60 seconds...we would miss more than 1500 new blog posts,almost 100,000 new tweets,20,000 posts on Tumblr,600 new videos (>24 hours) uploaded to YouTubeand at least 3,000 new images on Flickr.-Gizmodo(also see 24 Hours of Flickr Photos exhibit)

... and in the past month3 billion photos and20 million videos have beenuploaded to Facebook- Steve Wheeler

Source: GIZMODO

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GOAL:LOW volumeHIGH relevancy

2 opportunities for learners...FIND great curatorsBE a curator - Jeff Cobb

RSSReally Simple Syndication

70% Surfing Rule “...if you surf vs. subscribe, you will spend at least 70% of your online time consuming interesting instead of actionable information, and 70% of the time, you won‟t return to the task you initially set out to complete.12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time

Useful curation tools: Google Reader is an RSS reader that enables you to collect all of your RSS feeds in one place (available in Google bar under More tab)StumbleUpon helps you to discover web pages, photos and videos recommended by friendsDelicious / Diigo social bookmarking tools help you to find, create and share bookmarks

NEWER curation tools:Paper.li turns selected posts from your Twitter, Facebook or Google+ stream into an online newspaper Scoop.it find the things that interest you and turn them into a visual, online magazine PearlTrees organize, discover and share everything you like on the web

http://www.scoop.it/t/ct231-it-professional-skills-module

Creative Commons “enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledgethrough the use of free legal tools.” http://creativecommons.org

4 clauses:BY AttributionND No DerivativesNC Non-commercialSA Share Alike

6 licenses:BYBY – SABY – NDBY – NCBY – NC – SABY – NC – ND

Treat any material you findon the internet (e.g. Google images)as the exclusive property of the ownerunless you find it is held undera Creative Commons license. Creative Commons: an Educational Primer - http://edreach.us

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 langwitches

CC BY_NC 2.0 youngdoo Thank you! @catherinecronin

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