Managing Your Digital Footprint |
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| One of the challenges in using social networking software for educational purposes is that teachers have had little training in managing a digital footprint—traces of their activity on the Internet that others can find to build a profile. Many teachers may be technically savvy regarding the use of social networking and web 2.0 sites like Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, yet don’t often understand the permanence & persistence of digital data and the ways it may affect their careers. Many also fail to separate their personal & professional data. Internet news and blogs are rife with incidents where the inability to manage digital footprints is derailing careers. Julia Hengstler, Educational Technologist & instructor (Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University) will provide strategies, tips and tools for educators to manage their digital footprints to project teacher professionalism. She’ll also provide tips for you to encourage your students to actively manage their own digital footprints. | |
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Audience: General |
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| Room: | B 101 |
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Julia Hengstler Nanaimo, BC Julia Hengstler is currently the Educational Technologist and an Instructor at the Faculty of Education at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC. Prior to joining Vancouver Island University, Julia spent over a decade teaching grades 6-12 (including adult night school) covering subjects across all major subject areas including second language, in both traditional & non-traditional settings. During her career, Julia has served on the executive of the Educators for Distributed Learning PSA (BCTF) as well as on the executive of the BC Computer Curriculum Consortium. Long a supporter of technology since her introduction to computers in the early 1980’s, Julia shares her resources with her faculty & the field via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/jhengstler , Delicious http://www.delicious.com/jhengstler, her Faculty of Education EdTech site http://www.viu.ca/education/edtech as well as her blog http://jhengstler.wordpress.com/ A published author, you might have seen some of her work in Education for a Digital World (Chapter 8 in part 2), Adminfo (Dec. 2008 & Oct.2007), Leadership in Focus or Academic Exchange Quarterly (June 2001). Contact Julia via email Julia.Hengstler@viu.ca . Julia.Hengstler@viu.ca |
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