Nurturing+a+Digital+Identity

What is the size of your digital footprint? Teacher -librarian, Directions Team Leader of Digital and Informational Literacies at Orangeville District Secondary School alanna.king@ugdsb.on.ca Twitter: @banana29 Blog: threadbarebeauty.wordpress.com ||
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Are you influencing people? Are you creating change? Influence and voice are major parts of creating an online persona.

How can we develop and nurture the most positive digital identity for ourselves: media type="custom" key="20662139"
 * as teachers?
 * as students?
 * as citizens?

Step 1: Get yourself online / Get your students online
[] || * Super-easy to use []
 * **Platform** || **Pros** || **Cons** ||
 * Blogger
 * Connected thru Google/UGCloud || * Simplistic
 * Limited storage
 * Limited embedding ||
 * Wordpress

[] || * Able to manage pages and posts easily [] || * Your own social network [|https://twitter.com/#!/banana29] || * network is global [] || * Super-easy to use http://sexuality-and-curriculum-edel-561.wikispaces.com/ || * great for communication, threaded discussion, collaboration @http://goo.gl/GFQr1 || * available free for all mobile devices @http://www.diigo.com/list/banana29/digital-identity-tools || * the ultimate curation tool for online research
 * Beautifully visual
 * Able to handle more media
 * More embeddable
 * Great trackable stats || * Need some experience to feel comfortable ||
 * Ning
 * Great for clubs etc.
 * Students can personalize their own pages || * Limited media capabilities ||
 * Twitter
 * can have multiple accounts
 * quick, short, free
 * no one needs to be friends
 * great for big events by just creating a hashtag || * Every user needs an account
 * Totally un-policed environment ||
 * GoogleSite
 * Easy to modify on the fly
 * Works well with all Google products || * Storage is limited
 * Limited media capacity
 * Themes are limited ||
 * Wikispace
 * easy to modify || * Students can change things...
 * Themes are limited ||
 * Evernote
 * web-based curation of images, notes, urls
 * share a notebook with other people
 * all items in notebook are metatag-able || * Simplistic ||
 * Diigo
 * easy to share with groups or online
 * can turn lists of urls into a presentation of pages || * Need some experience to feel comfortable
 * Diigo bookmark tool needs to be installed on every desktop
 * Not great on mobile devices ||

Step 2: Track your digital identity (and adjust accordingly)

 * How can you gauge the effectiveness of your digital footprint? Use the following tools to track your progress. **
 * ==Klout.com== || [[image:klout.jpg width="480" height="315"]] ||
 * Twitter || [[image:twitter.jpg width="480" height="94"]] ||
 * Clustrmap || @http://www.clustrmaps.com/index.htm ||
 * Google Yourself || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GqsT1lvqUe-RbA3zKIAzaupCncY770xmpQm9CjzrYzWJUeYh9hEKGIaMChSHBBbN3LwN93YYwZwL3jTNRpK1jOCx669FLUQ_5TnbhRqPDAXoMjeZ9Zo]] ||
 * Statistics from Blog/Tumblr/YouTube || [[image:https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/fP6ciBcg3VKMLQhR9ukqrneuqt1Y4sNeCYBFIErAqn138jtK31qAAn6xuaR2oDAbESrVq8zMi-PaYOXj7-7124IqenUTI-QwFj5ET4oYWiT8Z4brZ_k]] ||
 * Twitterize.me || media type="custom" key="19347882" ||
 * Facebook Monster || media type="custom" key="20568320" ||
 * Facebook Monster || media type="custom" key="20568320" ||

Resources:
Alec Couros has a presentation about the scope of digital identity: []

William Kist's The Socially Networked Classroom []

Pam Berger and Sally Trexler's Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World []

A space about examples of student led or student created activities that have made a difference as a result of social media

[|https://mightybell.com/spaces/2053a95d1c8b5dbe#]