Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Digital Tattoo
In all of the assigned digital tattoo articles, the individuals online presence is being evaluated for insight to the "real" personality and character of the person that being considered for employment, position change, or higher education program. This online research to dig deeper into our lives is not comfortable but it is reality. My online search revealed that I do not have much of a “digital tattoo”. My lack of positive digital image is because I do not have any social media accounts or personal websites. As a future teacher I understand that a positive digital tattoo is very important to the 21st century classroom. The first step to building my positive image is to develop a professional Facebook page and a professional educational website. In my future classroom I will mentor my students on how to present a positive image on the social media sites and the advantages that come with this positive digital tattoo.
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Its amazing to think that in such a short span of time, online personas have become such a necessity to our development and subsequent employment. Its daunting to think that we can be judged on what we have done 10 to 20 years back because of our digital footprints; yet it is also frightening to realizing that we are expected to maintain or develop a digital footprint in order to achieve the goals we set out for. An activity like social networking, that can easily be viewed as a casual activity, is actually a necessity in order to succeed in our modern times.
ReplyDeleteMatthew, you are absolutely right that online research to dig deeper into our lives is not comfortable but it is reality. It is increasingly important to think about who we are and what we portray ourselves to be online. It's not comfortable that information that was not willingly posted or shared can be retrieved by anyone by clicking a couple of keys. Knowing how accessible online information is to potential employers and universities we should be even more cautious as professionals as to what we willingly post. I consider you and I to be pretty fortunate to be able to start from a blank slate and create our online presence. It's important to share what we know about digital tattoos to our students so that they too can create a positive digital image that can be beneficial to their future opportunities.
ReplyDeleteMatthew,
ReplyDeleteIn a nutshell you said it best, “a positive digital tattoo [image/ID] is very important to the 21st century classroom… I will mentor my students on how to present a positive image on the social media sites and the advantages that come with this positive digital tattoo.” And from here on out, you may want to pay close attention too all the stuff that will be posted or said by either you or someone else on your website when you start to create your website portfolio. The issue with social media sites is that you can never predict what the next person is going to say or post. And someone that you assumed was professional and level headed may surprise you and post something inappropriate, embarrassing, and unprofessional. Once you find out about it (and hopefully it is not to late) you may have no choice but to delete them off your site, regardless of who the person may be. Good post Matthew.