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Identity crisis: managing online reputation

Anne Fox: Trainer, consultant

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MySpace photo case

How much guidance do learners need when they start using social media such as blogs, Edmodo, YouTube and Twitter in class?

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Blog post titles –which would you click?

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Time to play...

Roles for today:

Ambitious career personPolitical activistParty animalKeep fit & health enthusiastYour choice (tell your group)

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The Attention GameThere will be four rounds• In each round each player chooses

one blog post title from the pile in the middle to reflect their role or you can use a blank one and write your own!

• When all have chosen one, the group vote on which blog post ttile they like the best (initial & mark it with a star)

• After at least 4 rounds see who has the most winning blog post titles

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Stop!• Who has won the game?

STOP PRESS STOP PRESS!

You have applied for a part-time job and your prospective employer has googled you!

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Debriefing – pick one question• Could you use this exercise in your classroom

as a language task?

• Could this exercise be useful even if your students are sophisticated social media users?

• Does this exercise mean that educational social media should always be password protected?

• What was most successful in grabbing your attention?

• If someone else was getting attention, were you more likely to choose more extreme headlines?

• Looking back at the way the game went, would you change your attention grabbing strategy?

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The problem

URL: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2

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Resources• Digital Lives an EU initiative• Digiteen Teacher Guide• ’This is Me’ University of Reading

Workbook free download

Attention game

with added role playing

with cruel twist• My Footprint (good intro movie) making the

handbook is the major activity; movie is here• Segmented online world ideas• Smokescreen – simulation

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Thank you!

Slides and links will be available from Brighton Online once the session is over.