Curation of Your Online Persona Through Self-Care and Responsible Citizenship

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I’m excited to announce my publication in this new K-12 book titled, Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing (Huffman, Loyles, Albritten, & Green, 2020). My contribution to the edited book is titled, Curation of Your Online Persona Through Self-Care and Responsible Citizenship (Rogers, 2020). It’s written for secondary teachers and their students. It started as a few lesson plans for an interdisciplinary course at Spring Hill College (IDS 394: Wired) and grew into blog posts and eventually this chapter. See my previous blog posts on the Recipe for Digital Curation of Your Online Persona and the Global Interdisciplinary College Course. Below is the abstract for my chapter.

ABSTRACT

With each blog post, tweet, and online project, Internet users are building their online reputation whether they want to or not. In the absence of professional branding, users’ online presence contributes vastly to what brands them. Through critical digital pedagogy, teachers and students question all technology practices (e.g., self, school, society). This chapter addresses the safety, security, and perception of their online data through self-determined prevention, weeding, and branding based on their short- and long-term goals. Methods, resources, and a lesson plan are provided as guidance to support students’ well-being pertaining to the online dimensions of their academic and personal lives. Strategies discussed include online identity system checks to review current digital footprint and data vulnerabilities, contemplation of technology usage in terms of self-care and responsible citizenship, and curation and development of their online persona. These participatory practices address two of the ISTE Standards for Students regarding digital citizenship.

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The book’s release date was October 2019. There are many interesting chapters on school safety from many different perspectives including the marginalized. If interested in purchasing, let me know and I’ll provide you with a 40% discount coupon code.

I presented some of the curation strategies mentioned in the book at the Association of Educational Communications and Technology’s annual conference held in Las Vegas, NV this fall. My session was hosted by the Culture, Learning, and Technology special interest group in a new free workshop-style Inspire session. It was titled, Safeguard Your Online Persona by Using Various Techniques and Technologies. It was well received! See my AECT blog post with slides. I’ve learned so much from taking a deep dive into this topic to write this chapter and look forward to sharing it with you.

References

Huffman, P., Loyles, S., Albritton, S., & Green, C. (2020). Leveraging technology to improve school safety and student wellbeing. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6

Rogers, S. (2020). Curation of your online persona through self-care and responsible citizenship: Participatory digital citizenship for secondary education. In S. P. Huffman, S. Loyless, S. Albritton, & C. Green (Eds.), Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6

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Sandra Annette Rogers, Ph.D.

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