In FutureCasting, a digital portfolio development process, students answer the questions “Who am I?” and “Who do I want to be?” The answers empower students to take control of their digital identity, identify their values, set personal and “professional” goals, and understand how today’s choices affect future opportunities. Join us as we help students can become the master of their own developmental trajectory: The hero of their own story!

1. &
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2. Watson College of Education
Angela Housand, Ph.D.
housanda@uncw.edu

3. Self-Mentoring
TM
You are your own best mentor!

4. Self-Mentoring
TM
Dr. Marsha Carr
Learning about yourself in
relation to a given organization
through a process of data
collection and critical reflection.

5. Self-Mentoring
TM
Dr. Marsha Carr
• Department of Educational Leadership at UNCW
• Superintendent of Schools in WV for 10 Years
• Principal
• Director of Curriculum
• Colleague and Friend

7. Self-Mentoring
TM
A replacement for regular
mentoring models?

8. Self-Mentoring
TM
A replacement for regular
mentoring models?
NO

12. Future
Casting...
Become the Hero of Your Own Story
!
© Angela Housand, 2013

13. FutureCasting...
A Portfolio
Development Process
for Adolescents and
Emerging Adults
!
© Angela Housand, 2013

14. FutureCasting.org
Who are you?
Control the Message
Casting Call
Action
Social Capital
!
© Angela Housand, 2013

15. WHO ARE YOU?

16. Control the Message

17. CASTING
CALL
BE THE HERO THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING

18. CT
A
!!!
N
IO
The Hero of Your
Own Story

19. Social
Capital

20. FutureCasting...
Connecting Who Students Are
Today
With Who They Will Be
Tomorrow
!
© Angela Housand, 2013

23. Personally Meaningful
• Tied to Student’s
Identity
• Personally
Interesting
• Integral to the
Student’s Vision of
the future
• Viewed as Useful
(Eccles & Wigfield)

24. 3 Ring Conception of Giftedness

27. Pew Research Center, 2010

29. 76
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33. Engineer Serendipity

34. Enable Students to
Define & Achieve
a Chosen Destiny
Plan a Preferred Future
Decide WHO not WHAT to be
Pragmatic honesty

35. Enable Students to
Achieve a Chosen
Destiny
Focus on what is important to prevent
wasting time
!
Achieve more than they ever imagined
possible

38. WHO ARE YOU?

39. Did you know you have multiple identities?

42. Activity Time:
Weebly Beginnings

50. Activity Time:
S. W. O. T.

51. SWOT
Analysis
Internal Origin
!
Attributes of the
Individual
External Origin
!
Helpful
to achieving the
objective
S W
O T
Strengths
Opportunities
Attributes of the
Environment
Harmful
to achieving the
objective
Weaknesses
Threats

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54. Strengths
What unique skills do I have?
What do I do well?
What resources do I have available?
Who do I know that can help me?
What experiences have I had that will
help me as I move forward?
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55. Weaknesses
What areas do I need to improve?
What do others view as my weakness
or area for improvement?
What is something I would like to
change?
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56. Opportunities
What opportunities are already
available to me?
How can I use my strengths to create
opportunities for myself?
Who might be willing to help me?
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57. Threats
What could hinder my success?
What are potential problems I could
encounter?
What are the challenges I face?
What are the restrictions in my life
(time, money, vehicle, access to
computer or the Internet, etc.)?
© Angela Housand, 2013

59. Activity Time:
Explore
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60. Explore

61. Explore
Students Conduct Research to Answer:
What are my values?
How do I like to spend my time?
What might I want to do in the future?
What skills do I need to be successful in the future?
What steps do I need to take to attain my vision of the future?
© Angela Housand, 2013

70. Explore
www.skillcow.com
cfnc.org
https://diy.org/
www.mynextmove.org
www.lifevaluesinventory.org

72. Activity Time:
Who Are Your Heroes?

73. Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future

74. Activity Time:
The Accomplishments
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75. Activity Time:
The Ideal Day...

76. Activity Time:
Remember the Future

77. Control the Message

79. Why Control the
Message?
• College Admissions Officers & Committees
will search you
• Potential Employers will search you
• Friends (& non-friends) will search you
• Your Competition will search you
• Potential Boyfriend/Girlfriend will search you
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81. Digital
Identity

82. Volume
The amount of information there is about
you on the internet

83. Relevancy
The usefulness of the information that exists
about you and how consistent that
information is with you you say you are and
what you claim to value

84. Purity
The amount of information that comes up in
an Internet search that is about you and not
someone with a similar name or similar
interests

85. Diversity
The mixture of information found when you
are searched online:
•
•
•
Do you have a website?
Are you found in real time content?
Are there images and video of you?

86. Activity Time:
Online ID
© Angela Housand, 2013

87. Search Yourself
• With quotes around your name, search
yourself on Google,Yahoo!, and Bing
• What did you find?

88. Search Yourself
You want to find:
• Favorable entries about your work
• Flattering or neutral mentions of your
personal life

89. Activity Time:
Digital Footprint
© Angela Housand, 2013

90. How To
Control the Message
• Find Out What’s on the Web
• Clean Up Content that You Don’t Want
Everyone in the World to See
• Create a More Flattering Image Online

91. Set Up Alerts!
google.com/alerts

92. Remove Unflattering
Content
Start with what you have posted:
• Delete any negative comments you’ve made
• Delete inappropriate photos or videos
• Check all sites!
!
• Edit blog entries that are negative

95. Remove Unflattering
Content
You Can Start Fresh Too:
• Delete all of your accounts
• Create new ones with a unique name for
yourself
• Use your middle initial
• Use your nickname
• Remember...Nothing really ever goes away.

97. Remove Unflattering
Content
• Ask others to remove negative
content about you.
• Remove “tags” from photos
• Paid services:
reputation.com
internetreputation.com

99. Remove Unflattering
Content
Reset Privacy Settings:
• Block groups or individuals from viewing
content that you would prefer to be
private
• Manage our groups regularly and
remove unsupportive members

100. Other Message
Management Tips
• Avoid overly prolific status updates
• Claim your domain name
GoDaddy.com
• Create a More Flattering Image Online

101. The BEST Way To
Control the Message
Create Favorable Content
• Set up a linkedin.com profile that is public
• Get people to “endorse” you professionally
• Update profiles regularly
• Blog on a topic of interest
• Contribute in positive ways to the online
community - and do so often!

102. CASTING
CALL
BE THE HERO THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING

103. Future Self

105. in20years.com

106. Activity Time:
Tagxedo Me
!
www.tagxedo.com

111. Personally Meaningful
• Tied to Student’s
Identity
• Personally
Interesting
• Integral to the
Student’s Vision of
the future
• Viewed as Useful
(Eccles & Wigfield)

112. CT
A
!!!
N
IO
The Hero of Your
Own Story

113. Specific
Measureable
Attainable
Realistic
Time-bound

114. Cyclical
&
Ongoing

119. www.liftinternational.com

122. Goal attainment is
not luck,

123. Goal attainment is
not luck,
it takes time and
requires effort.

124. Social
Capital

126. Activity Time:
Meme
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135. Activity Time:
Map the Network
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137. • Manage Relationship Expectations
• Genuinely Interested in People
• Practice Emotional Self-Awareness
• Aware of their tempers and
idiosyncrasies

138. Manage
Relationships
• Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain
• Give honest and sincere appreciation
• Figure out how to get others to want to do
or not do...

139. Manage
Relationships
• Arousing the desire to do or act in a
particular way:
• Make the person feel important
• Let the person believe the idea was
their own - let them take credit.
• Simply building self-efficacy

140. Become Well Liked

141. Become Well Liked
• Be genuinely interested in people
• Smile or be positive
• Use the person’s name

142. Become Well Liked
• There can be more power in listening than
talking
• Be interested in what the other
person is interested in
• Make the other person feel
important by genuinely valuing
what they have to offer

143. Engender
Support
• Avoid conflict or arguments when possible
• Show respect for others’ opinions and
ideas

144. Nobody
Likes to Hear
!
“You’re Wrong”

145. Engender
Support
• Admit when you are wrong
• The sooner you can get someone to say
yes, the more they will say yes
• Let the other person do a great deal of the
talking

148. Thank You!