Putting the pieces of your digital identity together

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

I’m not a lover of jigsaws, it has to be said.  Mainly because I’m not very good at them, but the jigsaw analogy for your digital identity is an apt one.  In a previous post, Behind the Mask of Digital Identity, we explored the fragmented nature of a digital identity (or identities) and how publishing vignettes of ourselves online, often for a variety of different audiences, on a variety of different social media sites and for a variety of different reasons, can make managing our online identities challenging to say the least. Continue reading →

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Ten Great Ways to Use Pinterest to Support Learning

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

I recently started baking gingerbread men. It was my first real attempt at baking, I have to admit, and was spurred into it by a bizarre Christmas present of some cut-outs for making gingerbread men in the shape of ninja (thus, transforming a normal everyday “gingerbread” man into a lethal “ninjabread” man). A little childish, perhaps, but the act of creating something so visually striking (and tasty!) that others could enjoy was thoroughly satisfying. Continue reading →

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39 Steps (to embedding digital literacy into teaching and learning)

Posted on November 10, 2012 by

It was at the (fairly) recent Discovering New Horizons in the Digital Landscape conference in Manchester that my friend and colleague, Anthony Beal, introduced me to 23 Things - a self-directed course aimed at introducing a range of tools that could facilitate personal and professional development for librarians. Which got me thinking – why stop at librarians? There are plenty of tools out there that anyone involved with teaching and learning (whether they’re teachers, learning technologists, librarians or something else) would benefit from, so why not create a self-directed course for a broader audience? Continue reading →

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Behind the Mask of Digital Identity

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

“Everyone presents himself to the others and to himself, and sees himself in the mirrors of their judgements.  The masks he then and thereafter presents to the world and its citizens are fashioned upon his anticipations of their judgements.”

Anselm Strauss, “Mirrors and Masks: the search for identity.” (1969) Continue reading →

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