Jen Goerzen

Digital Tattoo Project

www.digitaltattoo.ubc.ca

Darren Fleet

Digital Tattoo Project

www.digitaltattoo.ubc.ca

Who are we?Darren Fleet & Jen Goerzen

• Coordinators of Digital Tattoo Project • Can be reached at digital.tattoo@ubc.ca

 Digital Tattoo Project

• Online tutorial and ongoing workshops• Information you put online is like a tattoo:

highly visiblehard to removean expression of yourself to others

1. Raise your hand if you think you have an online profile. (Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Xanga, a personal blog…)

2. What are some other online social media or networking tools that you use?

3. Would you want your UBC professors to see your online profile? How about your grandmother?

4. Whether you realize it or not, you likely already have a…

Digital Tattoo

Who are you?

Activity #1- Digital Tattoo Debate

1. Consider the reasons someone might want to search about you online?

2. Defend a position on whether the private, personal information about you online should affect your public or professional profile?

3. Elect someone to share your group’s stance with the rest of us.

Ray Lam steps down over Faceook photos

Candidate's racy Facebook photos showed 'lack of judgment': B.C. NDP leader - Technology & Science - CBC News. (n.d.). . Retrieved March 14, 2011, from http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2009/04/20/bc-facebook-ray-lam-facebook-photos-james.html

Activity #2- Digital Tattoo Search1. Search the name your group has been given using:

• Google• www.pipl.com• MIT’s Personas at http://personas.media.mit.edu/• www.archive.org’s Wayback Machine

2. Discuss your impressions of this person based on what you found online. For example,

• What did you find out about the person being searched?• Was all the information accurate?• What do you think is missing?• What does this exercise tell us about data mining? • How might your digital tattoo compare to the one searched?

3. Elect someone to share your observations with the group.

Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman. (n.d.). . Retrieved March 14, 2011, from http://personas.media.mit.edu/

What you should know…

• If you’ve ever been online, people can find out about it Less privacy than you would think

• Caching by websites means what you put online is hard to delete www.archive.org’s “Wayback Machine”

• People judge you based on your online presence Ray Lam

What you can do about it…

What else can you do about it?

Be proactive… Connect!

The internet allows you to: • connect to a greater number of people faster &

more easily • access information from wherever you are located

You already network online socially or recreationally but…

…have you considered how you might exploit these skills to further your academic and professional careers as well?

Connect

Create something you want everyone to see:

• Online resume• E-portfolio• Blog• Professional profile• Publish your research

cIRcle

Your digital presence and online connections could contribute significantly to your academic and professional future.

cIRcle -UBC’s informational repository

Copyright• How does copyright work?

• How can you find material that you’re free to use?• How can you make your online content available for

others’ use?

www.creativecommons.org

Social media: a democratic professional tool?• People want to connect • People want all the information they

can get in real time.• Twitter gives access to both professional

journalists and the view from the ground.

Examples for inspiration…

“The scoffers can scoff all they want, but here at RWW our use of Twitter so far has included the discovery of breaking stories, performing interviews, quality assurance and promotion of our work.” ReadWriteWeb, 2007

Twitter and the Revolution

Social Media & Citizen Journalism

User driven content

Freelancing made easy

The Digital Tattoo WebsiteProtectWhenever you use the internet you leave a trace behind - your digital tattoo! Find out how to protect your computer and yourself. Learn about privacy settings and security features, and get the scoop on identity theft and cyberstalking.

ConnectYou use the internet to create, share and collect information. Learn about the different tools to help you communicate with the world, and develop the online identity you want.

Learn Learning takes place online too, so you will develop a digital tattoo at school. Get the scoop on being a wired student: research on the web, academic honesty, open access learning, and more!

WorkWhat happens in the real world? Employers will look you up on the web - what will your digital tattoo say about you? Learn what to do to impress your future boss.

Publish - coming soonYou are already a publisher when you create online content. Find out about intellectual property rights, ways toshare your work with others, open access publishing, cIRcle - UBC’s informational repository and more in this upcoming module.

We hope you leave today feeling encouraged and inspired to explore the fantastic learning tools and

professional opportunities available online.

We also encourage you to stay informed so that you can learn, work and publish wisely online as you

expand your potential as future leaders.

Thank you for participating.

Visit us at www.digitaltattoo.ubc.ca

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about managing your digital identity.

Questions / Comments?

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