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 * How do I know if I am BUILDING A DIGITAL PRESENCE ? **


 * A **** digital presence **** for a teacher refers to an educator’s collection of technology talents and competencies; it is what that person knows how to do instructionally and professionally with computers and other new interactive technologies. In today’s high-tech, Internet-connected society, more and more future teachers are paying attention to the building of their digital identity. They recognize that job, career, and well-being in our information and **
 * computer-based society increasingly depends on their technological knowledge and skills. **


 * Building a digital identity as a technology-using educator one of the most exciting parts of becoming a teacher. As you create your “in front of the class teaching personality,” you are also learning new talents that encompass the technology-based aspects of “being a teacher.” Since computers and the Internet provide an accessible "store front" for communication, you makes sense to build your digital identity as a teacher around 21st century technologies and skills. Your digital identity as a teacher can fulfill one of three important goals for college students who are becoming teachers: a multimedia resume, technology as learning resources and teaching tools, and models for your students’ use of technology in their own lives. **


 * CHOOSE ONE OF THREE PATHS **

Path ONE: **Multimedia resume.** Your digital identity communicates your technology knowledge, talents, skills and values. Anyone interested in your abilities as a teacher can see first-hand that you are a confident and competent technology-using educator. Your digital identity introduces everyone from school system hiring committees to colleagues, families, and students themselves who you are a professional. Unlike the entries on a paper resume that appear as mainly static items, your digital identity is a constantly evolving portrait of growth and development as a teaching professional. New technology-based activities and learning can be displayed as they happen, making your talents fresh and up-to-date for everyone to see.

[|**Multimedia Resumes Add Pizzazz to Job Search**] San Jose State University student Josephine Chandra wrote and filmed her online resume for a class. Chandra graduates in May and is hoping her writing and video skills will land her a job.Also on her  Web resume is an unnarrated promotional video for the school's career center. When visitors click on Chandra's Web resume, they see a photograph of her smiling, next to her name at the top. There's text on her education and work experience, but also links to PowerPoint marketing campaigns. Some Web resumes even offer instant Web references.These so-called social media resumes make use of all the bells and whistles of Web design, and they're being built for free at the online site [| VisualCV]. It's one of many free resume-building sites, including  Zolio and  GigTide [|(2009).]

With the unemployment rate at 9.4[*current rate 8.4% down from 10.0%] percent and ticking up, millions of Americans are in the job market for the first time in several years. But the job market has changed in that short time. The paper resume is laughably passe, at least in some circles. Not having a profile on the social networking site LinkedIn is, for some employers, not only a major liability but a sign that the candidate is horribly out of touch[|(2009)].[| * 3/14/2012]
 * Job Seekers Find New Rules of Recruitment**

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[|www.interfolio.com] //Interfolio offers individuals one central place to store their most important documents, while also providing the means to distribute these materials to any institution.// //Interfolio's services offer a revolutionary way for people to present and market themselves professionally.// //The idea for Interfolio was the result of an award-winning business plan developed by [|Steve Goldenberg] when he was a student at Georgetown University. As a worker in Georgetown's career center, he saw an opportunity to offer students a better way to promote academic and professional achievements. His business plan for a powerful and easy-to-use online credentials service won the Philip's Publishing Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship. Steve used feedback from the 1999 Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE) annual conference to launch the first version of Interfolio later that year [|(2012)]. Read about the many [|institutions] that use Interfolio.//

[|'Weekends Are for Drinking' and Other Things Not to Say in Your Resume]
You’ve thought long and hard about how to make your resume stand out, but perhaps you’ve gone too far. A recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive for CareerBuilder.com asked hiring managers to share the most unusual resumes they’ve seen. Explaining that you work well in the nude? What they found might surprise you. CareerBuilder.com Survey: Top 12 Resume Disasters 1. Candidate mentioned in his resume that he spent summers on his family’s yacht in Grand Cayman. 2. Candidate attached a letter from his mother. 3. Candidate used pale blue paper with teddy bears around the border. 4. Candidate explained a gap in employment by saying he was getting over the death of his cat for three months.

Path TWO: ** Learning resources and teaching spaces **. Your digital identity demonstrates that you are able to use interactive computer technologies to create engaging lessons, deliver lively instruction, and conduct thoughtful assessments. Your knowledge of the Internet, for example, shows that you can identify and manage the essential materials needed for curriculum and instruction. Your abilities to build a wiki, blog or website demonstrates that you know how to use the Web to post assignments, invite student collaboration and feedback, and enable learning to continue happening outside the regular school day. Every aspect of your digital identity complements and expands your abilities as a teacher. media type="custom" key="13603856" Thinking and Acting Like A Conductor!

__1. Introduction to the metaphor__ Introducing the participants to the analogies between the musical ensemble and teamwork in business and corporate world, including:
 * Orchestra – Organisation (School)
 * Conductors and Concert Masters – Leaders and group managers (Teachers/Leaders in the School/Students)
 * Different instruments – Different functions
 * Musical Scores – Work plans (Curriculum and Pedagogy)
 * Audience – Clients (Students/Community)
 * Musician – Individual employee (Each individual Student)

Conductor Itay Talgam is one of the leading figures in the Israeli music scene. Talgam is a champion of contemporary music, and in particular music of contemporary Israeli composers. His outstanding achievements were acknowledged by audiences, critics, as well as by Israel’s composers Association, which in 1994 awarded him an honorary prize for his personal contribution in performing and promoting Israeli music. [|Itay Talgam (2012).]

Path THREE: ** Technology models for students **. Your digital identity is also an ongoing demonstration of the ways you as a teacher go about using technology creatively and appropriately for learning. Through the various elements of your digital identity, you provide students with real-life examples of digital literacy, digital ethics, digital safety, and digital creativity—all qualities those students will need to be engaged digital citizens in today’s information-based society.

UNDERSTAND GAMESTORMING In today’s business world, a premium is placed on creativity and the unpredictable but breakthrough ideas it can bring. The straightforward and analytical process we used to solve other business problems is not cut out to produce these breakthrough ideas. The first thing you’ll find different about this process is that your goals need to be “fuzzy” in order for them to work. Gamestorming doesn’t create a chain of cause and effect, it creates a framework for exploration and experimentation. Not only is the path to the goal unclear, but the goal itself might change along the way. As the authors note, creating a fuzzy goal requires a little bit of ESP (emotional, sensory and progressive). You need emotion because if you don’t tap into passion, you don’t tap into creativity. You need a sensory rich goal because the more tangible you can create the goal, the better the results will be – they should be able to feel it, see it and even taste it. Lastly, you need the goal to be progressive, and allow it to change over time if necessary. As you learn along the way, you may find that you need to change your target.

IDENTIFY GAMESTORMING IN YOUR CLASSROOM OR SCHOOL "Apple Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo were created by college kids, eBay was a weekend projects... the most valuable assets in the network economy are mind power, innovation and creativity and the epicenter is Silicon Valley. Why is this small geographic center such a hive of creativity and imagination do they do something differently yes....... people are having fun and getting results... learn about what's different……[|(2012)]. media type="custom" key="13693352" Take a look at the structure of your classroom or school. Identify any 21 Century "gaming" hothouses in your classroom. Put a frame around those incubators for change by identifying classroom and school situations where the following three stages of gaming occur:


 * //Opening. This first step is all about opening//**
 * //minds and possibilities. This is where all of the//**
 * //big ideas should come out, and the critical thinking//**
 * //should be left behind. There are no wrong answers here, and your//**
 * //job is to create as many possibilities as possible.//**


 * Exploring. This is the stage where you start to look for connections between ideas, and try to**
 * see old things in new ways. You are looking at**
 * this stage to see how your many**
 * ideas might play out.**

Read about the Gamestorming steps then apply these steps to what you have modeled for students thus far.
 * Closing. This is the stage where the critical thinking comes into play**
 * and you start to reduce the set of possibilities you’ve created**
 * and narrow down on a course of action. You’ll be creating next steps here, and you’ll be forced to eliminate your**
 * choices down to the ones you can realistically implement. [|(Gamestorming 2012)].**

Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) Gary Vaynerchuk discusses his raw, organic business model for using social media as a lever. At first, this talk may seem like a business model only. How might his message apply to student motivation, learning and schools for the 21 Century? Warning some explicit language in this TED Talk. ABSTRACT FROM TED TALKS: At the Web 2.0 Expo, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk gives a shot in the arm to dreamers and up-and-comers who face self-doubt. The Internet has made the formula for success simpler than ever, he argues. So there's now no excuse not to do what makes you happy. Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library TV combines an irreverent approach to wine and a shrewd social media strategy. It won him web fame and the cachet to spin off book deals, new businesses and his own entrepreneurship consulting firm [|(2012).]

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