Building a Digital Identity

Using Social Media to Promote Your Academic Work

Draft - upcoming

Winter 2013 Events

Christine Portier
Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning

I am currently writing my thesis for my doctoral degree in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development. My research focus is on elementary language instruction: drawing relations between structures of language, specifically narrative, and the processes of cognition.

PRESENTATION

Title: Engaging elementary students in higher order thinking and discourse about language and with language - by means of interactive classroom technology

An ideal way is to achieve this outcome is to seamlessly integrate an interactive relational approach to language instruction with interactive whiteboard technology.

This presentation will focus on an innovative application of literacy research designed to develop elementary students' higher order thinking through writing instruction. With a focus on structural and relational concepts, educators can create classroom discourse about language as students develop a dynamic conceptual framework that can be transferred to new language experiences.

This talk will:
- use the Promethean interactive whiteboard to show educators/researchers exciting ways to integrate the different aspects of the language curriculum by means of fundamental language ideas
- demonstrate ways to extend language concepts across the curriculum
- introduce a means by which students can apply higher order thinking skills to the words, sentences and paragraphs of fiction and nonfiction texts
        • show how patterns in composition relate to patterns in narrative

For more information about the interactive language instructional modules that I have developed, in association with Promethean, visit http://tinywws.com

Winter 2012

A Special Workshop Series for OISE Graduate Students
In Collaboration with the Office of Teaching Support at OISE (OTSO)

Instructor: Arif Anwar

Academics are increasingly shifting to digital and social media to promote their work and gain an advantage in the job market. Graduate students are no different. This workshop is geared towards graduate students and other academics who are interested in learning about digital and social media tools. Over the course of four weeks, this workshop will focus on progressive skill building in using social media tools such as Blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Academia.edu, and on providing an in-depth understanding of how search engines work. At the end of the four weeks, the participants should have a clear idea of how to leverage social and digital media tools to create a coherent digital identity, or a 'living CV'.

Note: While you can register for the sessions individually, you will receive the most benefit from attending all of the sessions as they are designed for a progressive build-up of social media skills.

Workshop 1: Your name is your most valuable intellectual property

In the job market, your name is your most valuable intellectual property. This workshop seeks to develop an understanding of the role that search engines such as Google play in representing our digital identity to others. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a clearer picture of exactly what others find when searching for their names in different search engines and why. The goal for this session is a developing a roadmap for a dynamic digital identity that is completely under the user's control.