Presentation for the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute at NC State University's Friday Institute, July 2012. #NLI2012

1. Publishing & Sharing with Web Identity in Mind:
Critically Crafting Your Digital Footprint
Mary Hodder (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryhodder/123208237/)
Carl A. Young
North Carolina State University
New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute – #NLI2012
Raleigh, North Carolina -- July 12, 2012

2. Who are they? Who are you?
Who am I?

8. newlit.org

10. carl_young@ncsu.edu
slingtunes@gmail.com
cayoung7@gmail.com

11. Other facets of my online identity…

12. but enough about me, on to you...

13. Are you a publizen?
“See Me, Click Me”: Washington Post, 6-23-06

14. Informed Insights
• Student Perspective – more telling than we might think!
“If you’re not on MySpace [ ___ ], you don’t exist.”
- Skyler, 18, to her mom
Source: Danah Boyd (http://www.danah.org/) – Social Media researcher at MS
Research New England and Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for
Internet and Society.
• “Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American
teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost
synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now
online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites.
Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become
spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and
amplified—in both good and bad ways.”
• Source: Lenhart et al. (2011, Nov.). Pew Internet and American Life Report:
Teens, Kindess and Cruelty on Social Network Sites

15. Investigation Activity
1 – Choose a partner and introduce yourselves briefly.
2 – Conduct a brief web investigation of your partner and see what information you
can find about him/her online.
3 – Share what you find on the Wallwisher (see wiki) – what did you find?
Reactions? Action steps?
4 – Next, evaluate the information you find about your partner from these three
perspectives (in other words, take on these personas and respond to what you
find):
a. a friend or colleague; b. a principal or school administrator, or an employer,
or a college admissions officer; c. the parent of one of your students, or your
parents or another relative
5 – If time, repeat the process above focusing on one of your students – choose one
student between the two of you and search about them online.
Next, on to the issues... (see the wiki!)

16. Q & A on Web Identity
Thank you!
Carl A. Young, Ph.D.
NC State University
carl_young@ncsu.edu
Please see related presentation wiki page at
http://nli2012.wikispaces.com/Critically+Considering+our+Digital+Footprint
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