What+is+Identity?+How+Do+We+Critically+Craft+Our+Online+Identity

= Perspectives on Web Identity =

Dick Hardt: CEO Founder Sxip

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Kim Confino's // [|Always Learning] // blog post: [|The Digital Me]

= Critically Crafting Our Online Identity3 Keys for Consideration // (Young) //= Source: BlendWell (blendimic.com) || Source: Angela Paige (angelapaige.com) || =** 1. Decide Upon the Online Identity You Want to Create **=
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//Questions to consider://

 * ===How do I want to brand myself? What is the identity I want to create, promote, and share?===
 * ===What are my personal and professional boundaries and comfort zones?===
 * ===Who and what stakeholders and organizations -- //"spheres of inluence"// -- (e.g., family, friends, employer(s), school system, students, community members, government, etc.) do I need to be aware of in terms of how I craft my online identity? How will these people and organizations affect what I create, promote, and share and be affected by it?===
 * ===How might the status of the length of time and/or my tenure in my current position affect or not affect what I post and share with others?===
 * ===How might where I live geographically, along with the politics and cultural norms associated with that particular context, affect what I choose to post and share with others?===
 * ===Given my responses to the questions above, what types of content will I post or share? What types of content will I be sure NOT to post or share?===
 * ===In crafting my online professional identity, what tools will I use and how will I use them?===

//Some Tips://

 * ===Use your real name and be consistent with your use of it (especially if you have multiple names or have experienced name changes or know of folks with your name or a name similar to it). You want to be Googled well!===
 * ===Read and follow other professional educators who do it well -- social networks, professional networks, blogs, twitter, etc. -- and consider them as models for your own online work.===
 * ===Don't operate out of fear, but see this as an opportunity to create or re-envision yourself anew and promote the good work you do!===

//Concept akin to creating an impression -- concept is not new, but the context is...//

 * ===Goffman's (1953, 1956) notion of ** //impression management// ** - part of a larger process where people seek to define a situation through their behavior, to define social situations by using contextual clues from the environment around them and the related social norms. Social norms emerge out of situational definitions as people learn how to read cues from the environment and the people present to understand what is appropriate behavior.===
 * ==="Learning how to manage impressions is a critical social skill that is honed through experience" (Boyd, 2007, p. 12).===

==**3. Take Action and Write Yourself Into Being **==
 * ===Sunden (2003) -- people must learn how "to write themselves into being..." -- //so, what will this look like? How will we write ourselves into being? What will we do? What will your "digital me" be?//===
 * ===The possibilities are endless! Look for opportunities to make it so!===

**Referenced Resources:**

 * Boyd, D. (2007). [|"Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life"] . McArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning--Youth, Identity, & Digital Media Volume (ed. David Buckingham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
 * ==== Goffman, Erving. 1956. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. ====
 * ==== Goffman, Erving. 1963. Behavior in Public Places. New York: The Free Press ====
 * ==== Sundén, J. (2003). Material Virtualities. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. ====