Digital identity, Digital literacies, Learning with social media

Digital identity | Digital literacies | Learning with social media

Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin | catherine.cronin@nuigalway

17th November 2011Perspectives in the Digital Age, BA Information Technology, NUI Galway

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“Students will not simply pass through a course

like water through a sieve, but instead leave their own

imprint on the learning process.”~ Bryn Holmes (2001)

What digital tools do you use most?

Searching

Learning

Creating

Sharing

SOCIAL MEDIAuse of web 2.0 technologies to create &

exchange user-generated content(Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010)

SOCIAL NETWORKINGusers create profiles, connect w/ other users,

view connections, create content, etc.(boyd, 2010)

DIdigital identity

“digital footprint”

Persistent

Replicable

Scalable

Searchable

- danah boyd

What’s your Digital Identity?

“digital footprint”

How to find out your DI...

“digital footprint” Google Google Alert google.com/dashboard

spezify.com piple.com tweetcloud intel.com/museumofme

privacy“digital footprint”

If you’re not paying for it,you’re the product.

digital literacy

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search

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There are other search engines!

Bing

Yahoo!

WebCrawler

Dogpile

DuckDuckGo

...

Let’s talk about Google

Google search options (left column)

Google Advanced Search

Google Scholar

To set preferences for NUIG Library within Google Scholar: click Advanced Scholar Search click Advanced Search Tips click Library Links click Scholar Preferences enter "NUI Galway" and click Find Library

Some questions...

1. How do I find recent articles?

2. How do I find Irish examples?

3. How do I find recent journal articles?

4. How do I get full text of articles, if not available on Google Scholar?

search...there’s more!

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Eli Pariser (2011) The Filter Bubble

www.thefilterbubble.com

Search results we are served are based on what we have clicked on in the past...

Search technologies make the world's information “universally accessible”, as Google's motto puts it, but it is not “making universal knowledge universally accessible”.

Siva VaidhyanathanThe Googlization of Everything

crowdsourcing

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Keeping track of source, links, websites...

How do you do this now?

social bookmarking

“the tag is the soul of the internet”- Derrick de Kerckhove

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curation

curation“select, organize and look after

the items in a collection (or exhibition)”

- Meriam Webster Dictionary

digital curation

digital curation“organizing, filtering and

‘making sense of’ information on the web and sharing the very best of content

with your network”

-  Judy O’Connell

if we paused the web for 60 seconds...

we would miss more than 1500 new blog posts,

almost 100,000 new tweets,

20,000 posts on Tumblr,

600 new videos (>24 hours) uploaded to YouTube

and at least 3,000 new images on Flickr.-Gizmodo

(also see 24 Hours of Flickr Photos exhibit)

... and in the past month

3 billion photos and

20 million videos have been

uploaded to Facebook

- Steve Wheeler

Source: GIZMODO

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GOAL:

LOW volume

HIGH relevancy

2 opportunities for learners...

FIND great curators

BE a curator

- Jeff Cobb

RSS

Really Simple Syndication

70% Surfing Rule

“...if you surf vs. subscribe, you will spend at least 70% of your online time consuming interesting instead of actionable information, and 70% of the time, you won’t return to the task you initially set out to complete.

12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time

Useful curation tools:

Google Reader is an RSS reader that enables you to collect all of your RSS feeds in one place

(available in Google bar under More tab)

StumbleUpon helps you to discover web pages, photos and videos recommended by friends

Delicious / Diigo social bookmarking tools help you to find, create and share bookmarks

NEWER curation tools:

Paper.li turns selected posts from your Twitter, Facebook or Google+ stream

into an online newspaper

Scoop.it find the things that interest you and turn them into a visual, online magazine

PearlTrees organize, discover and share everything you like on the web

http://www.scoop.it/t/ct231-it-professional-skills-module

Creative Commons“enables sharing and reuse of

creativity and knowledge through the use of free legal tools.”

http://creativecommons.org

4 clauses:

BY AttributionND No DerivativesNC Non-commercialSA Share Alike

6 licenses:

BYBY – SABY – NDBY – NCBY – NC – SABY – NC – ND

Treat any material you find

on the internet (e.g. Google images)

as the exclusive property of the owner

unless you find it is held under

a Creative Commons license.

Creative Commons: an Educational Primer - http://edreach.us

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Thank you!

@catherinecronin

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