Blogging and academic identity

Blogging & identity
Martin Weller
Tag 16 my secret identity by chanchan222 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanchan222/3219255790/

My online identity

[Demo Tumblr - http://nogoodreason.tumblr.com/]

It’s distributed
Reflections by stephendooleyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2577006675/

It’s evolving

It’s default

It’s moving to the centre
Staircase of the Vatican museum by _robertC_ http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_catalano/404014466/

Blog stats
1,094 subscribers
462 posts
3 years
1,241 comments
Colored dice by sgs 1019: http://www.flickr.com/photos/visionwithin/133942381/

Avoiding the B word
What if we didn’t understand what we do in education with blogs as “blogging” but as a quick and easy way to publish online within a learning community? Or a place to feature a portfolio of students’ best work? Or a site where professors and staff track their professional and personal development?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2554380692/

Blog as V/PLE?
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Blog is VLE

Anatomy of sharing
favourites
embed
automatic
promotes
subscribes
retweets
discusses
comments
links

[Demo Blip & Friendfeed]

Talking about sharing
I have been asked to participate in many projects over the years that start once … organizations notice that they have a lot in common with others and decide that it would be a good idea to collaborate, to share “best practices” or “data” or whatever...
But inevitably, these projects spend an enormous amount of time defining what is to be shared, figuring out how to share it, setting up the mechanisms to share it, and then…not really sharing much.”
Now I contrast that with the learning networks which I inhabit, and in which every single day I share my learning and have knowledge and learning shared back with me. I know it works.(Scott Leslie)
Dominoes - http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica_marshall/3233372652/

The cost of sharing has disappeared
…but we act as if it hasn’t
Remember Cassette tapes? - http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica_marshall/2666112988/

How often do we use this type of sharing in our teaching or research?
Sharing by ryancr http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/

New measures of impact
2400 visitors
52,000 visitors
= 163 hits/month
Open Research Online
= 1700 hits/day

Engagement with media

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/2945559128/

Improve presentations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB7S-KOJIfE

Engagement with media
You learn how simple it is
BSR
Types of media
Better presentation?
You learn how easy it is

What’s in it for me?

Networking
http://twitter.mailana.com/profile.php?person=mweller&

My advice
Lazyweb
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=lazyweb
Enjoy a lazy Sunday by ucumari http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/2813269535/

Sharing resources
Sharing – furiousgeorge81 http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979/

Understand the attention economy
Distinctively red by pshutterbug http://www.flickr.com/photos/pshan427/1358194906/

Real life/local enhancement

Understand rights, reuse, openness
Copyright is for losers by 917press http://www.flickr.com/photos/917press/2583620793/

Breaking news, current issues
A hail in the mist by Kacper http://www.flickr.com/photos/zwierz/102481030/

Engagement with new forms of publishing

Share ideas
http://twitpic.com/photos/Sianz

New forms of teaching
by Michael Weschhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Explore
Play
Create
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA

Two propositions
Your online identity = your academic identity
There is an online identity for everyone

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Blogging and academic identity

by Martin Weller on Jun 22, 2009

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