For most of my adult life, I have been very active in online spaces.\u00a0 I work for a 3D interactive eLearning company and have spent four-year teaching digital literacy to children as the Chapter Lead of Canada Learning Code.\u00a0 I am an early and avid adopter of many technologies. I am wired in on so many paths I do not think I could distinguish where my digital self ends and \u201cIRL\u201d self begins.<\/p>\n
This fact I live integrated with my digital self does not make me uncomfortable or make me feel inauthentic, and it is just a facet of how I live my life.\u00a0 As White put it I \u201csee the Web as a place, perhaps like a park or a building in which there are clusters of friends and colleagues whom they can approach and with whom they can share information about their life and work\u201d (White & Le Cornu, 2011).<\/p>\n
My digital presence is large if poorly mapped to my google search results, due to having varied interests coupled with an incredibly common name.\u00a0 If you were to check as Will Richardson\u00a0suggested and google me on graduation day, Schryver, K. (2013, February 5) the results would garner some pretty generalized posts showing my Digital Citizenship<\/a> in a mostly positive light.\u00a0 Before MALAT I already had \u201ca Domain of One\u2019s Own\u201d Watters, A. (2015, July 15) at christinaljones.com<\/a>.\u00a0 My search engine optimization (SEO) could use some improvement.\u00a0 I would like to take some time to strengthen this gap.<\/p>\n The readings for this unit also made me reflect on the evolution of the digital self.\u00a0 I found some of the readings in Unit 2 were quite dated, as many are nearly a decade old. \u00a0Even those articles that are newer had phrases that read like a relic of days gone by.\u00a0 References to MySpace, Rheingold, H. (2010) and digital camera use, Schryver, K. (2013, February 5) made me reflect on my digital self a decade ago. In 2009, I was a new mom, with little peer or family support.\u00a0 I turned online to find answers to why my baby would not sleep and ended up stumbling into a community of mothers around the world. This drive to educate myself in parenthood was the first step in me becoming a digital resident.<\/p>\n My digital presence in general, as it is already very much a living thing, like all living things it must be tended.\u00a0 Additionally, I do plan on curating a branch of my digital presence tied to my education.<\/p>\n Goals for my Digital presence:<\/p>\n Success will be measured by:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Schryver, K. (2013, February 5).\u00a0Who are you online? Considering issues of web identity.\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>. Retrieved from http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/05\/guest-post-who-are-you-online-considering-issues-of-web-identity\/?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n Watters, A. (2015, July 15). The Web we need to give students. Bright. Retrieved from https:\/\/brightthemag.com\/the-web-we-need-to-give-students-311d97713713<\/a><\/p>\n White, D. S., & LeCornu, A. (2011). Visitors and residents: A new typology for online engagement.\u00a0First Monday<\/em>, 16(9). Retrieved from https:\/\/firstmonday.org\/article\/view\/3171\/3049<\/a><\/p>\n Rheingold, H. (2010).\u00a0Attention, and other 21st-century social media literacies.\u00a0Educause Review<\/em>,\u00a045<\/em>(5), 14.\u00a0 Retrieved from http:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2010\/10\/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For most of my adult life, I have been very active in online spaces.\u00a0 I work for a 3D interactive eLearning company and have spent four-year teaching digital literacy to children as the Chapter Lead of Canada Learning Code.\u00a0 I am an early and avid adopter of many technologies. I am wired in on so … <\/p>\n\n
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