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As a professional working in a public service job (like teaching or public relations), you are a "publizen"--a citizen with public faces created by your "publications" in online spaces. What is your "identity"? How is it represented online? What can you do to manage your online identity?

Please follow the steps below to address this issue with your group

On a blank sheet of paper, trace your hand. Outside the lines, put words or phrases you think others would use to describe you; inside the lines, put words or phrases you would use to describe yourself. Don't share with the people around you until you're done, and then only if you feel comfortable.
 * __1. Warm-up:__**

Are you a "publizen"?

if you searched for Mike Sherry online, you might find... The neighborhood where I lived in Okemos, MI
 * __My web identity__:**

Professional and personal affiliations


 * [[image:sherryte801-3:ra_sherrymi.jpg width="116" height="125"]] || [[image:sherryte801-3:Mike.jpg width="152" height="125"]] || [[image:sherryte801-3:miketoon.jpg width="128" height="128"]] || [[image:sherryte801-3:navighead4.JPG width="134" height="136"]] ||
 * Mike as a grad assistant || Mike as winner of teaching award || Mike as manga avatar || Mike's logo, related to teaching philosophy ||


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 * My college //a cappella// singing group || The student-led //a cappella// group I started as a teacher in France (still going strong years later!) ||

1 - Introduce yourself to each other -- first, last, and middle names, where you're from, etc. Find one interesting thing about your group members -- for example, what is one area of interest outside of school? Examples: Online gamer, Farmville addict
 * __Your Web Identity__: How are you represented on the internet?**

2 - Conduct a brief web investigation of your group members and see what information you can find about them online. Then, evaluate the information you find about your partners from these three different perspectives (in other words, take on these personas and respond to what you find):

a. a friend or colleague

b. a principal or school administrator / an employer / a college admissions officer

c. the parent of one of your students / your parents or another relative

3 - Next, repeat the process above focusing on one of your students--choose one student between you and search about him/her online. (Note: since you don't yet have access to this information, choose another person)

4 - Share -- what did you find? Reactions? Action steps?

"With great power comes great responsibility" - Spiderman's Uncle (i.e., the issue is not the internet but how we use it)
 * __Issues for teachers and other professionals: What's at stake?__**

[|The Job Interview video] [|"Twitter Gets You Fired in 140 Characters or Less"]: msnbc.com, 3-23-09 [|"Teachers disciplined for Facebook postings"]: Charlotte Observer, 11-21-08 [|"Social-networking sites viewed by admissions officers"]: Chicago Tribune, 9-20-08 [|"One in five employers uses social networks in hiring process"]: Computer World, 9-12-08 CareerBuilder.com says one third of hiring managers rejected candidates based on what they found [|"How to Lose Your Job On Your Own Time"]: NYT, 12-30-07


 * __So what do we do about it?__: Taking charge of your digital identity**

[|Seth Godin: Google Yourself!] [|Online Identity Management] [|The Digital Me]

Examples: - Student Example: [|My Jewish Legacy] -- As part of her Bat-Mitzvah education, student developed website as a starting place for kids and teens to share stories about their grandparents’ journeys in escaping or surviving the Holocaust.

- Preservice Teacher Examples: [|MSL Eportfolios May09]

- Teacher Example: [|The Tempered Radical] -- Middle Grades Teacher Bill Ferriter's Blog, Wake County, NC

- Teacher Educator: [|Digital Writing, Digital Teaching] -- Troy Hicks' (CMU) blog focusing on integrating new literacies and emerging technologies into the teaching of writing (and more). Troy sets the bar high for us as educators.

- Network of Students (College), Teachers, and Teacher Educators & Researchers:

- [|New Literacies Collaborative]

- [|ECI 306 MYR Getting Graphic Blog]: Preservice Middle Grades Teachers' Reviews of Graphic Novels and Nonfiction