digital footprint – threadbare beauty

Is it possible to be proactive when technology and the use of social media sites changes so quickly?

A colleague of mine asked me this question today. Here’s my reply: I think it is possible to be proactive with technology and social media, because I think the growth of social networking is plateauing. In preparation for our group assignment on games, I have come across this business researcher, Seth Priebatsch, who says: For those of…

July 22, 2014

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decade of games, digital footprint, digital literacy, educational research, educational technology, Facebook’s Open Graph, game layer, information literacy, Jian Ghomeshi, library leadership, Seth Priebatsch, social layer, social media, Vancouver riots

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 42 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

January 9, 2014

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Crowd sourcing Psycho using Twitter

[View the story “Crowd sourcing Psycho using #maODSS” on Storify] Trying to teach about Hitchcock’s Psycho, how Twitter can be used for learning and improving the self-directedness of learning all at once in media arts using the Twitter hashtag #maODSS Storified by Alanna King· Wed, Mar 06 2013 17:22:17

March 6, 2013

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crowd sourcing, digital footprint, digital identity, digital literacy, hitchcock psycho, social media, Storify, student-centred learning, technology, Twitter

Engaging your digital identity

I can’t help it….it’s not even the end of July and I’m thinking about teaching again! Next year I get a media arts class to experiment with and we are going to explore the ideas of identity and anonymity through a reflective blog all semester long. I firmly believe that people have an digital identity…

July 25, 2012

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