I was proud of not having any digital footprint to begin the class with. I value my privacy, and I was pretty impressed with my ability to lock up my accounts and keep them private. I worry about exposing my family to the internet with the dangers that lurk out there! I have a personal blog, Pinterest, Faceboook, and a personal Twitter page, and none of those popped up on my round one vanity search.
This time when I did my vanity search typing in Amy Milstead, my eportfolio came up!
http://amymilstead.weebly.com/
I have been working on it, because I am hoping to graduate in August (if the Research class doesn't kill me first!) It actually was pretty cool that it came up because that is a tool I want to professionally speak for me. I'm really excited about it showing up on the first page of the search.
I typed in my Twitter handle amilstead1 and it came up with my Twitter feed. Since that is my professional Twitter page, I am happy that it popped up as well. I would like to make more of a professional digital footprint through the next chapter of my career that starts next year as I become a school librarian. I think I will have opportunities to create my own blog, use Twitter for ideas and collaboration, and using Web 2.0 to make the library relevant and engaging for all students.
Basically, my professional digital footprint has improved through this class, while my private life stays private! It's the best of all worlds and I'm happy I had the opportunity to make my professional digital footprint bigger!
Monday, July 6, 2015
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Aggregating Adventure
I loved this adventure. I had no idea this even existed in the land of the internet. I want this to be my home screen when I log in on my school computer, and I want to keep it up on my home computer too. I can see this being very addicting because it's like everything you want the internet to be in one place! I am still working on figuring it all out, but it seems very user friendly and required very little introduction to the site before I could dive right in and start using it!
I think this could be used very successfully on my job also. Next year I will be starting my first year as a librarian in an elementary school. I will have students from grades Kinder through 5th daily in my library. I will be responsible for a lesson for every grade level. I could make bookmarks for every grade level and store videos, lessons, links, and more on this and have it all available in one place. This makes it so I can store information also for future lessons or to reference something I've shared before. I am thinking ahead too for this website. If I were to be transferred in the next few years to a middle or high school this is absolutely something I would use for older students to store their research in one place. I think this is a great way to store information and access it easily. I would even require this if I were a teacher who required research as part of a grade.
I also think this would be something I could share with teachers as a way to support their curriculum through the library. The role of librarian is changing and I need to be more of an instructional leader. This would give me the opportunity to share and help teachers with out taking their time in staff development. I also think this would be a great way to communicate with parents and let parents know what's going on in the classrooms. I know I would appreciate seeing it as a parent.
This was a fun week because it's the first true adventure I had never explored before. I am learning so much through this class, I'm sad to see it go by so quickly!
Feel free to visit my protopage! It will be a work in progress from here on out!
http://www.protopage.com/milstead
I think this could be used very successfully on my job also. Next year I will be starting my first year as a librarian in an elementary school. I will have students from grades Kinder through 5th daily in my library. I will be responsible for a lesson for every grade level. I could make bookmarks for every grade level and store videos, lessons, links, and more on this and have it all available in one place. This makes it so I can store information also for future lessons or to reference something I've shared before. I am thinking ahead too for this website. If I were to be transferred in the next few years to a middle or high school this is absolutely something I would use for older students to store their research in one place. I think this is a great way to store information and access it easily. I would even require this if I were a teacher who required research as part of a grade.
I also think this would be something I could share with teachers as a way to support their curriculum through the library. The role of librarian is changing and I need to be more of an instructional leader. This would give me the opportunity to share and help teachers with out taking their time in staff development. I also think this would be a great way to communicate with parents and let parents know what's going on in the classrooms. I know I would appreciate seeing it as a parent.
This was a fun week because it's the first true adventure I had never explored before. I am learning so much through this class, I'm sad to see it go by so quickly!
Feel free to visit my protopage! It will be a work in progress from here on out!
http://www.protopage.com/milstead
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