Artifact # 1: Online Identity Analysis
Our first project was a digital identity analysis. As I said in a prior blog entry, establishing and maintaining an online presence, and controlling the trajectory of your digital identity, is a highly effective method to ensure professional success. Traditional ideology about keeping your personal life and professional life separate when online is far more wishy washy than in years prior. Everything sort of blends together now and it all forms your digital identity. In short, it's all about the authentic you!
In this project, I studied two exemplar individuals in the field of higher education that have a strong online presence. The purpose of this project was to study how these individuals conduct themselves online to form a baseline for how I myself wish to present myself online; click to view my findings.Artifact # 2: Group Wiki Project
Image Source: My group project home page.
The second project I did was on digital literacy. This was a group project where I worked with two of my peers online. For this project, were tasked with creating on online sort of wiki/repository with the Google Sites platform. Our task was to select three of the nine themes of digital citizenship. The Digital Citizenship website defines digital citizenship today as "the continuously developing norms of appropriate, responsible, and empowered technology use" (Nine Elements: Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship, n.d.).
The concept of digital citizenship started around the later 1990's as the internet became more accessible and mainstream, quickly becoming a part of daily life for millions across the globe (The Definition of Digital Citizenship, 2020). While the term has seen frequent use for the greater part of two decades, no one person owns the term, and the definition slightly varies from academic to academic. Simply put, digital citizenship is an umbrella term.
We created a site that explored three of the topics chosen; digital access, digital communication, and digital security and privacy; click to view our group project.
References:
Nine Elements: Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship. (n.d.). Digital Citizenship. Retrieved July 31, 2022, from https://www.digitalcitizenship.net/nine-elements.html