blogging and academic identity

Blogging & identity

Martin Weller

Tag 16 my secret identity by chanchan222 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanchan222/3219255790/

My online identity

[Demo Tumblr - http://nogoodreason.tumblr.com/]

It’s distributed

Reflections by stephen dooley http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2577006675/

It’s evolving

It’s default

Staircase of the Vatican museum by _robertC_ http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_catalano/404014466/

It’s moving to the centre

Blog stats

462 posts

1,241 comments3 years

1,094 subscribers

Colored dice by sgs 1019: http://www.flickr.com/photos/visionwithin/133942381/

Avoiding the B word

What if we didn’t understand what we do in education with blogs as “blogging” but as a quick and easy way to publish online within a learning community? Or a place to feature a portfolio of students’ best work? Or a site where professors and staff track their professional and personal development?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2554380692/

Blog as V/PLE?<embed>Blog is

VLE

Anatomy of sharing

embed

links

promotes

automatic

favourites

comments

subscribesdiscusses

retweets

[Demo Blip & Friendfeed]

Talking about sharing

I have been asked to participate in many projects over the years that start once … organizations notice that they have a lot in common with others and decide that it would be a good idea to collaborate, to share “best practices” or “data” or whatever...

But inevitably, these projects spend an enormous amount of time defining what is to be shared, figuring out how to share it, setting up the mechanisms to share it, and then…not really sharing much.”

Now I contrast that with the learning networks which I inhabit, and in which every single day I share my learning and have knowledge and learning shared back with me. I know it works.(Scott Leslie)

Dominoes - http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica_marshall/3233372652/

The cost of sharing has disappeared

…but we act as if it hasn’t

Remember Cassette tapes? - http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica_marshall/2666112988/

How often do we use this type of sharing in our teaching or research?

Sharing by ryancr http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/

New measures of impact

2400 visitors

52,000 visitors

= 163 hits/month

= 1700 hits/day

Open Research Online

Engagement with media

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/2945559128/

Improve presentations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB7S-KOJIfE

Engagement with media

• You learn how simple it is• BSR• Types of media• Better presentation?

You learn how easy it is

What’s in it for me?

Networking

http://twitter.mailana.com/profile.php?person=mweller&

My advice

Enjoy a lazy Sunday by ucumari http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/2813269535/

Lazyweb

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=lazyweb

Sharing resources

Sharing – furiousgeorge81 http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979/

Understand the attention economy

Distinctively red by pshutterbug http://www.flickr.com/photos/pshan427/1358194906/

Real life/local enhancement

Understand rights, reuse, openness

Copyright is for losers by 917press http://www.flickr.com/photos/917press/2583620793/

Breaking news, current issues

A hail in the mist by Kacper http://www.flickr.com/photos/zwierz/102481030/

Engagement with new forms of publishing

Share ideas

http://twitpic.com/photos/Sianz

New forms of teaching

by Michael Wesch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Explore

Play

Create

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA

Two propositions

Your online identity = your academic identity

There is an online identity for everyone