“Thread left to be untangled” by ohsohappytogether is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The map results in my previous post Considering Dave Cromier’s Digital Mapping and by following some of the guidance from Shannon Lucky and Joseph E. Rubin (2017) I have created an overall goal to separate out my professional academic work from my personal life so I feel more free to post and create content in both areas. Right now the two blend and because of this I hesitate to post and do anything more than lurk on social media. I will take some actions to separate the professional and personal side of my social media presence and cultivate the professional side by committing to posting content I create that will mainly come from my blog.
To cultivate my professional life online I will undertake four things:
- Improve my blog
- Find partners to collaborate with in areas of interest.
- Create a professional social media presence for my students.
- Clean up social media channels that blend with family accounts – (Tik Tok & Youtube)
Actions for Blog Improvements:
1. To incorporate the CV page into the site as right now it is sitting there with a broken link. Complete by June 30, 2021
2. Bring the hidden pages that are created for student activities into the public view and give them the correct licensing to share with other educators. Complete by March 2022 – request release.
3. Write a minimum of one blog post per month. Add reminder in calendar each month review this goal in August 2021.
Finding collaboration Partners:
1. Tie my blog posts into my Twitter feed. Review in August 2021
2. Update my Twitter profile. Complete by June 30, 2021
3. Post original content on my Twitter feed a minimum of once every two weeks (separate from the blog posting) that is directly related to academic work and topics. Start in May 2021 review in August 2021.
Create a professional social media presence for my students.
1. Update Linkedin Profile photo. By May 30, 2021.
2. Accept connections from professional and student networks. By May 30, 2021.
3. Share achievements and recent work with Linkedin network. As updated on blog.
Clean up some Channels.
1. Get the kid an appropriate youtube account. By end of May 2021.
2. Go through teaching videos and separate them out into a teaching account. By end of May 2021.
3. Hide some videos that are out of date. By end of May 2021.
4. Set up a family Tik Tok and a Teaching Tik Tok separately. By end of May 2021.
References:
Lucky, Shannon and Rubin, Joseph E. (2017) Cultivating Your Online Presence. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 12,(2)
http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8013
April 26, 2021 at 8:17 pm
Hi Karen,
I really love your plan! I think giving yourself dates to have things done by to keep yourself on track is a great idea. I really resonate with your comment about being fearful on posting when your two worlds are overlapped. I think separating them to be more comfortable in each is a great idea. I noticed that many of your “deadlines” you have set are for the duration of this course. Will you set new goals for yourself once these current goals are achieved? How will you keep your digital presence active after graduating?
Thanks for sharing,
London
April 26, 2021 at 8:30 pm
This is a great point about the short term nature of my goals London.I did not articulate this even to myself so I really appreciate the questions you posed to me here.
I think my goals are so short term right now because with the learning we are doing I imagine I will create longer term goals I don’t even have the knowledge to create yet. These short term ones are hopefully going to set me up to adopt new ones that are still unknown. These short term goals also feel so urgent now that I have a made choices about my digital presence in a more deliberate way.
April 26, 2021 at 8:17 pm
Hi Karen,
I really love your plan! I think giving yourself dates to have things done by to keep yourself on track is a great idea. I really resonate with your comment about being fearful on posting when your two worlds are overlapped. I think separating them to be more comfortable in each is a great idea. I noticed that many of your “deadlines” you have set are for the duration of this course. Will you set new goals for yourself once these current goals are achieved? How will you keep your digital presence active after graduating?
Thanks for sharing,
London
April 26, 2021 at 8:30 pm
This is a great point about the short term nature of my goals London.I did not articulate this even to myself so I really appreciate the questions you posed to me here.
I think my goals are so short term right now because with the learning we are doing I imagine I will create longer term goals I don’t even have the knowledge to create yet. These short term ones are hopefully going to set me up to adopt new ones that are still unknown. These short term goals also feel so urgent now that I have a made choices about my digital presence in a more deliberate way.
April 28, 2021 at 8:46 am
Hi Karen,
I love the title and the picture of your post.. especially the untangling word. It describes really well what I’m trying to achieve as well. I also like your pragmatic approach to each objective. One of your objectives is “to incorporate the CV page into the site”. I haven’t thought of the CV that way… I have a similar objective, but mine is more all encompassing with creating a living CV throughout my entire site. What is your vision for your CV online? – Stephanie
April 28, 2021 at 8:46 am
Hi Karen,
I love the title and the picture of your post.. especially the untangling word. It describes really well what I’m trying to achieve as well. I also like your pragmatic approach to each objective. One of your objectives is “to incorporate the CV page into the site”. I haven’t thought of the CV that way… I have a similar objective, but mine is more all encompassing with creating a living CV throughout my entire site. What is your vision for your CV online? – Stephanie
May 6, 2021 at 6:34 am
I love the idea of braving TikTok and look forward to hearing how it goes for you! What drew you to TikTok and teaching it vs sticking with what you’ve currently been using?
May 6, 2021 at 6:34 am
I love the idea of braving TikTok and look forward to hearing how it goes for you! What drew you to TikTok and teaching it vs sticking with what you’ve currently been using?