{"id":229,"date":"2023-04-28T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T00:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0277\/?p=229"},"modified":"2023-04-28T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T00:24:45","slug":"my-digital-presence-collaborator-critical-consumer-curator-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0277\/my-digital-presence-collaborator-critical-consumer-curator-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"My Digital Presence: Collaborator, Critical Consumer, Curator, Creator?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve been challenging many of my assumptions about my digital presence and identity over the past two weeks. I\u2019ve learned that how you show up online should<\/em> change, and as online educators it should<\/em> be purposeful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In cultivating my digital presence during the course of this programme, I\u2019ve identified the following goal for myself: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I aspire to evolve my digital presence from simply content consumer and promoter to content creator and curator. I see my digital presence as a powerful professional tool to be meaningfully cultivated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this goal shift and evolve over the next couple of years (and even weeks and months)? I hope it does as a changing goal will show I\u2019m open to growth. At this point in time here how I considered when I came to this current goal, at the very beginning of my graduate journey: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. My professional presence must Google well<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I want to be critical about where and how I share my professional identity online, and the best way for me to do that is to critically evaluate both the messages I\u2019m sharing and the platform I\u2019m using. In considering a shift in my digital presence, I\u2019m looking to be more meaningful in how I learn, make connections, and present my professional self online. In their article Who are you online? Considering issues of web identity<\/em>, Kelly Schryver (2013, para. 16) questions how well someone would be presented by Googling their name. I\u2019m fortunate that I have a unique full name, so the first result is my LinkedIn profile<\/a> (good!). Secondly comes my professional twitter account (which is so dead it may as well have been cremated), and the third result is a Facebook account belonging to a bikini-clad Andrea Evans-Smith (I choose not to hyphenate my surnames). In building my personal presence I want those second and third results to be more reflective of my personal persona.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Of note, I am currently considering deactivating my professional twitter account. Save for a few tweets when starting this program I haven\u2019t been active on the platform in years, and given recent instability of the platform I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s somewhere that I want my digital presence to live. I also intend to continue to keep my personal social media accounts private so only my professional identity is prominent on Google, but more on that privacy choice later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. My digital presence must challenge me to be more influential<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      I am not currently using social media networks to their fullest potential, and shifting my focus in this area will help me to reach my first goal above. In his article  Who are you online? Considering issues of web identity.<\/em>, Howard Rheingold outlines five key social media literacies to be leveraged by savvy online personas (2010, para. 3). In considering my social media presence I believe I am already leveraging three (digital attention, collaboration, and critical consumption) relatively well. My network awareness can probably be graded as fair (more on that in the next point), but my greatest opportunity is in the sphere of participation<\/strong> with lots of opportunities to increase my influence. Instead of being a \u201cpassive consumer\u201d online I want to move into the sphere of an \u201cactive citizen” (Reingold, 2010, para. 10). Simply looking at my professional networks of choice – LinkedIn publicly and the private Jive space at my global organization – there are plenty of opportunities for me to write my own articles, blogs, or infographics to exert my EdTech influence in my networks. I am especially intrigued by educators, eLearning developers, and instructional designers who go further and share their expertise on TikTok, YouTube, or their personal sites. Am I that brave? I\u2019m not sure yet, but I\u2019d like to start small on my current networking sites.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. My network is an incredible asset <\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        I\u2019ve been specializing in Online Learning since 2015, and in Adult Learning for 10 years previous. In that time I\u2019ve been so privileged to work alongside so many talented and passionate learning professionals, from local and global colleagues, to university and college instructors, through to several learning consultants. Online I regularly share their content, but don\u2019t create my own. If I were to shift to more purposeful content creation I would have an active audience, especially on LinkedIn. In Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Dynamics, and Implications<\/em>, Danah Boyd convincingly explains the benefit of carefully-curated social networks: \u201cthey allow people to gather for social, cultural, and civic purposes and they help people connect with a world beyond their close friends and family.\u201d (2011). I know that my professional social network would listen to what I have to say and would help me to promote my ideas, I just need to be brave enough to share them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Conclusion: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        I\u2019m feeling confident about the three goals I\u2019ve set for myself above, and that I\u2019ve assessed myself fairly in terms of where my opportunities lie. To tie this back to my blog post My Technology Mind Map <\/em>(Evans Smith, 2023) as well as David White & Alison Le Cornu\u2019s models of online \u201cVisitors\u201d and \u201cResidents\u201d (2011), I want to be a Resident – someone who actively cultivates and creates their professional identity online. I will also likely continue to keep my personal identity private, behind my private instagram account. I am choosing to keep this private side of myself out of respect for my family members and my teenager from whom I always ask permission before sharing online, as well as for my personal safety. In becoming more active professionally online, I also suspect this personal-professional divide will help my mental health and allow me to have a sustainable work-life balance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Boyd, Danah. \u201cSocial Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications.\u201d In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self (Pp. 39\u201358). New York, NY: Rutledge.<\/em>, 2011, https:\/\/www.danah.org\/papers\/2010\/SNSasNetworkedPublics.pdf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Evans Smith, Andrea. Resident or Visitor? Personal or Institutional? My Technology Mind Map \u2013 Andrea\u2019s Learning Space<\/em>. 23 Apr. 2023, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0277\/resident-or-visitor-personal-or-institutional-my-technology-mind-map\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Rheingold, Howard. Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies<\/em>. 7 Oct. 2010, https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2010\/10\/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Schryver, Kelly. \u201cGuest Post | Who Are You Online? Considering Issues of Web Identity.\u201d The Learning Network<\/em>, 5 Feb. 2013, https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/05\/guest-post-who-are-you-online-considering-issues-of-web-identity\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        White, David S., and Alison Le Cornu. \u201cVisitors and Residents: A New Typology for Online Engagement.\u201d First Monday<\/em>, Aug. 2011, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5210\/fm.v16i9.3171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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