Leveraging for Legacy: Personal Branding for Students and Educators
Cultivating #newliteracies
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? How does one "craft a tweet"? What are the nuances of hashtagging? What are the aesthetics necessary for effective vlogging? How do we cultivate and maintain a positive presence in social media? Our students are the "prosumer", publishing generation and require social and media skills that transcend physical space. This presentation will offer tips, tools, and examples to assist in integrating and supporting the "new literacies" in one's classroom and beyond.
How can we be, as Will Richardson states, "Googled well"? This presentation includes a web-based tool kit we'll used to explore platforms, strategies, and netiquette to create and share our work to a global audience in order to leverage the Web for our "legacy". Based on the concepts of Curation, Creation, Connection, Collaboration, and Promotion, we'll examine the use of blogs, vlogs, social media, digital portfolios, infographic resumes, YouTube channels, and curation / social bookmarking tools. Whether you choose to develop a personal brand for yourself, or intend to help your college-bound students do so, this workshop is for you. Time allowing, we will be creating at least one infographic c.v. within the session.
Have you ever wanted to consolidate your professional and personal achievements, activities, and aspirations into one swanky digital “hub” that can be easily shared? The first ( or sometimes last) step in creating an online portfolio is to develop a landing page or simple c.v. that can highlight your stats, interests and accomplishments. In this session we’ll explore tips in cultivating your “personal brand” as a professional educator and play with some great infographic resume tools. You will leave the class having developed at least one simple but effective digital business card, and having access to loads of resources to help you get started building that portfolio.
We are increasingly bombarded with “data viz” – artifacts from a field immersed in math, science, art, design, technology, and storytelling. How can students navigate through the mass amount of data and information using critical thinking skills and apply this to their studies? Better yet, how can students and educators learn to find the stories hidden in data, and create their own interpretations using DIY infographic strategies and tools? This session will explore recent trends in data visualization and how various forms of infographics can be used in the curriculum, as well as in professional life with the development of infographic cvs/resumes
If you are an entrepreneur, or a creative leader in your field, you are more significant than your current situation. It’s time to leverage the web to show how indispensible you are. In his best-seller Linchpin, Seth Godin identifies linchpins as people who “stand out...invent, lead (regardless of their title), connect others...make things happen..delight and challenge their customers and peers...and turn each day into a kind of art”. How do you go about creating a personal brand that transcends your company? This workshop offers tips on clever and responsible use of social media, as well as elegant and innovative tools to augment your digital presence and networking.
Infographicmania : Media Literacy and Data Narratives
Leveraging for Linchpins: Personal Branding for Business Owners
Presentations/ Workshops 2
iPad Cinema
This custom workshop was designed for teachers using the iPad at the beginner to intermediate level. Various pedagogical strategies involving digital storytelling (including vlogging) with the ipad are discussed, demonstrated and practiced, as participants critique student work then create a variety of individual and small-group projects (including, iMovie trailers, short films, silent films, vlogs, and stop-motion animation).