Seminar for Instructors in the Faculty of Education at UBC.

1. Thoughtfully Inked
Julie Mitchell, UBC Library
Cindy Underhill, CTLT

2. 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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3. Outline
 Literacies
 Complexity of the Online Environment
 Portfolio Development
 Social Media
 Strategies
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4. Student’s concerns?
Developing an
audience
Raising
awareness
Building a
“brand”
Building
professional
profile
Attention Participation
Network
Smarts
Privacy
literacies
Reference: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:Digital_Literacy_Framework
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5. 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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6. Discussion Activity
 What does “higher standard” mean in the
context of social media?
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7. 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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8. The audience can be invisible
and anonymous

9. Online Environment | Persistence
what you (or others) put on the internet stays there
The good
The bad
The ugly
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10. Online Environment |Replicability
Content can be taken out of context

11. Online Environment |Scalability
Scalability: what’s intended for one reaches many

12. Online Environment | Searchability

13. Story| Replicability & Scalability
Image credit: Flickr user OldShoeWoman
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14. Story| Searchability
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15. Portfolios: Reflections
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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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/

19. 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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20. 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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From: TrekMagazine – May 2013

21. 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
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From: The Value of Twitter: An Open Letter to Stephen Toope, President of UBC CanTeach – June3, 2013

22. Social Media: Learning Opp
Source: http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/sikh-reddit-response/
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23. Balpreet’s response:
Source: http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/sikh-reddit-response/
Social Media: Learning Opp
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24. 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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25. Mashups, memes and media
Source: http://www.quickmeme.com (Mckayla Maroney and Success Kid)
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26. Mashups, memes and media
CUSource: http://mashable.com/2012/05/10/child-memes/

27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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31. 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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32. Final thoughts
 If we have provoked some thought, how might that
influence your practise moving forward?
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33. Design your digital tattoo...
digitaltattoo.ubc.ca

34. 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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35. Resources
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http://www.slideshare.net/digitaltattoo/
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