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Who Am Me?Digital Identity, Domains, and Cyberinfrastructure

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The Rundown• Digital Identity and the Social Media Stage• Portfolios and Humble Beginnings• Anatomy of a Domain / Cyberinfrastructure• Examples of Domains at the University of Oklahoma• A Half-Baked Vision for the Future

Digital Identity and the Social Media Stage

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“Tinder In”

Side by Side profile pictures of LinkedIn & Tinder of the same person. Series existing out of 10 photo frames.

http://driesdepoorter.be/tinderin/

Dries Depoorter

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Portfolios and Humble Beginnings

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Two Concerns withE-Portfolio Solutions

1. Physical Ownership2. Creative Ownership

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TemplatedSelfAmber Case

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Good for Recreating Physical Class

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But somewhat equivalent to reading the newspaper online…

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Domains simply as end-of-semester portfolios

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Evolved into a syndicated blog hub

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Evolved further into a fully online course

@acroom http://clalliance.org/why-connected-learning/

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Connected Learning

http://csreports.aspeninstitute.org/Task-Force-on-Learning-and-the-Internet/2014/report/details/0046/Task-Force-Introduction-and-Challenges

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Connected Learning

http://csreports.aspeninstitute.org/Task-Force-on-Learning-and-the-Internet/2014/report/details/0046/Task-Force-Introduction-and-Challenges

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Client Audience Research Method Medium Design

Program

Student Choice

Potential Customer

Analysis-Synthesis

Bridge model

Business Card InDesign

OU Recruitment

Services

Targeted Market

Segment

Market Segmentation

Matrix

Direct Mailer Photoshop

Student Choice

Social Media

ChannelDesign Sprint Social

Media Canva

Fortune 500

Company

Internal / External

Existing Content Curation

Newsletter InDesign

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1. Research / First Draft

2. Second Draft

3. Final Draft

Self-Reflection(Blog Post)

Peer Feedback(Comments + Anonymous)

Instructor Feedback(Comments / Video / Grade)

Portfolio

Life Cycle of a PR Pubs Assignment

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Reflection Prompts1. What were you asked to do?2. How did you respond to what you were asked to do?3. How did react to what you actually did?4. Now go one level deeper: Why do you think your reaction was what it was?

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My Primary Pedagogical Shifts• Publicly exposing the learning process in addition to the

product• Prioritizing reflection and feedback• Increased autonomy in student assignments /

infrastructure

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The Rundown• Digital Identity and the Social Media Stage• Portfolios and Humble Beginnings• Anatomy of a Domain / Cyberinfrastructure• Examples of Domains at the University of Oklahoma• A Half-Baked Vision for the Future

Anatomy of a Domain / Cyberinfrastructure

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Anatomy of a Domain

.com

Top-level domain

gov, edu, com, mil, org, net, and int Seven generic categories

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Anatomy of a Domain

adamcroom.com

Top-level domainSecondary domain

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Anatomy of a Domain

adamcroom.comRoot domain

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Anatomy of a Domain

blog.adamcroom.com

Root domainSubdomain

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Anatomy of a Domain

wiki.adamcroom.com

Root domainSubdomain

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Anatomy of a Domain

photos.adamcroom.com

Root domainSubdomain

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Anatomy of a Domain

www.adamcroom.com

Root domainSubdomain

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Anatomy of a URL

http://blog.adamcroom.com/index.html

DomainSubdomain PageProtocol Top-Level Domain

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Control Panel

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Wordpress• Started off as blogging in

2003• Now power content

management system for any form of website• Powers 24% of the web

• Individuals or groups

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Known• “Open Source Tumblr”• Microblogging• Individual or groups

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Known• “Open Source Tumblr”• Microblogging

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Omeka• Catalogs and Collections

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adamcroom.comKnown.adamcroom.com

Jmc3433.adamcroom.comJmc1013.adamcroom.comJmc3433.adamcroom.com/wiki

Pepperdine.adamcroom.comPepperdine.adamcroom.com/research

Professional“Ed Tech”

Instructor

Scholar

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Examples of Domains at the University of Oklahoma

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Sooner Virtues – Character Portfolios

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API of One’s Own : Student Dashboard• Giving students control of their data and how it’s

exchanged

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Student API

LMS Advising Transcript Room & Board Development

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Adam CroomDirector of Digital LearningCenter for Teaching ExcellenceUniversity of Oklahomaa.croom@ou.edu | @acroomadamcroom.com