Thoughtfully Inked Julie Mitchell, UBC Library Cindy Underhill, CTLT
May 17, 2015
Thoughtfully Inked
Julie Mitchell, UBC LibraryCindy Underhill, CTLT
Key Question
How can you support teacher candidates to be engaged digital citizens while being mindful of the policies and standards that govern their profession?
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Outline
Literacies Complexity of the Online Environment Portfolio Development Social Media Strategies
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Student’s concerns?
Developing an audience
Raising awareness
Building a “brand”
Building professional
profile
Attention Participation Network Smarts Privacy
literaciesReference: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:Digital_Literacy_Framework CU
Teacher Regulation Branch
“ The Supreme Court of Canada has determined that educators are held to a higher standard than other citizens due to their unique role in society.”
From: Teacher Regulation Branch
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Discussion Activity What does “higher standard” mean in the
context of social media?
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Complexity of Online Environment
Dynamics that influence what we do online– Anonymity – Persistence– Replicability– Searchability– Scalability
From: boyd, danah. 2009. "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
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The audience can be invisibleand anonymous
Online Environment | Persistence
what you (or others) put on the internet stays there
The good
The bad
The ugly
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Online Environment |Replicability
Content can be taken out of context
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Online Environment |Scalability
Scalability: what’s intended for one reaches many
Online Environment | Searchability
Story| Replicability & Scalability
Image credit: Flickr user OldShoeWomanJM
Story| Searchability
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Portfolios: Reflections
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Portfolios: Images
Faces blurred – meets requirements?
What about student work?
Image licensed for re-use creative commons – not children from her class
cited: but not to the original source
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Considerations What is identifying information? Where might I use privacy settings to protect
students while contributing authentic reflections?
Am I contributing to the digital tattoo of my students?
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Copyright
Infringing copyright is a serious matter and UBC requires each of its faculty, staff and students to comply with copyright law and the terms of the UBC Copyright Requirements.
http://copyright.ubc.ca/requirements/copyright-guidelines/
Portfolios: Resources Privacy settings on UBC blogs:
http://blogs.ubc.ca/support/faq/#Privacy_and_Security Use of Student Images and Work Agreement (TEO) Copyright guides:
– http://copyright.ubc.ca/help-and-resources/image-citation-guide/
– http://copyright.ubc.ca/help-and-resources/creative-commons-guide/
– http://copyright.ubc.ca/help-and-resources/why-should-i-care/
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Social Media: Learning Opp
“I despise Twitter, truthfully. I think it’s one of the worst things that’s been created in my lifetime, and so there’s no way I’m going to go on it. …” – Prof. Stephen Toope
(UBC President)
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Social Media: Learning Opp
“I am proud to say that my school district has welcomed Twitter. We have our own hashtag stream where people from the district and outside of the district share, collaborate, and celebrate all in the name of improving education. We also have recently started holding a weekly chat time every Sunday night where people who are interested gather on our hashtag stream to chat about a preplanned topic. The topics have included inquiry based learning, assessment practices, and success stories. Weekly chats like this are happening all over Twitter.” – Iram Khan: UBC Alumni, administrator and teacher
CUFrom: The Value of Twitter: An Open Letter to Stephen Toope, President of UBC CanTeach – June3, 2013
Social Media: Learning Opp
Source: http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/sikh-reddit-response/CU
Balpreet’s response:
Source: http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/sikh-reddit-response/
Social Media: Learning Opp
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Social Media: Teaching Opp What role do you think teacher’s play in helping
their students become responsible digital citizens and how do you prepare them to do that?
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Mashups, memes and media
Source: http://www.quickmeme.com (Mckayla Maroney and Success Kid)CU
Mashups, memes and media
CUSource: http://mashable.com/2012/05/10/child-memes/
Strategies
Create some guidelines/ ground rules around cell phone use for photos and videos of teachers and students.
Discuss school as a “safe space” for learning – what does that mean in context of sharing texts, videos and images?
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Strategies
Profile pruning Restricting sharing settings Remove or restrict access to any pictures,
messages or videos you would not want the public to see from your online profile
Asking friends not to tag photos of you
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Strategies
LinkedIn– Professional networking– Invest time creating your profile– Connect with other educators
Edmodo– Teacher specific social networking tool– Connect with colleagues, publishers and resources– Join over 33 million teachers and students safely
connecting in online classrooms, collaborating on assignments, discovering new resources, and more!
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Strategies
Create a thoughtful, well-written blog about your goals or interests. Post comments on others’ blogs and use your full name
Participate in professional discussions on Twitter via hashtags
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Strategies
Create a personal website and link to and from various pages within and outside your website – this will increase your “page rank”
Buy your own domain name Tag first & last name on photos
that represent your professional self
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Final thoughts
If we have provoked some thought, how might that influence your practise moving forward?
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Design your digital tattoo...
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professional
part of a profession
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Resources BC College of Teachers: Standards, Questions and Case Studies
http://www.bcct.ca/Standards/QuestionsCaseStudiesContents.aspx# boyd, danah. 2009. "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" Microsoft Research Tech
Fest, Redmond, Washington, February 26. Retrieved March 10, 2009: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/MSRTechFest2009.html
Digital Tattoo: digitaltattoo.ubc.ca Madden, M., Fox, S., Smith, A., & Vitak, J. (2007).
Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency. Pew/Internet.
McBride, Melanie (2010) http://melaniemcbride.net/2009/08/27/putting-the-social-justice-in-social-media-pedagogy/
Ontario College’s “Use of Electronic Communication and Social Media” http://www.oct.ca/publications/PDF/Prof_Adv_Soc_Media_EN.pdf
Rego, B. (2009). Teachers Guide to Using Facebook. Richardson, W. (2008, January). Teaching Civics with Social Web Tools. District Administration,
44(1), 56-56. Rosen, Jeffrey (2010) The Web Means the End of Forgetting, New York Times. Quan, Douglas (2010) Facebook Blurs Line Between Teacher and Friend, Vancouver Sun.
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Resources
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