social media portfolios: building the digital toolbox using social media
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Social Media PortfoliosBuilding the Digital Toolbox using social media
Andrew Middleton, Sue Beckingham & Kelly Snape @andrewmid
#MELSIGNTU, 8th January 2016
@suebecks @kelsnape
LinkedIn - de facto place for professionals
The shared need to developProfessional profiles using social media
• Aspiring professionals - PPDP for students
• Practicing professionals - professional recognition for staff
Lifelong professional habits• Fostering effective
lifewide professional habits and presence
• Demonstrating your professional self is a lifelong capability
What is Connected U?
• ‘How to’ guides• Exemplars• Profiles• Recommendations, skills
and endorsements
A Toolkit• Cases studies• Written• Video
with• Alumni• Employers• Academics• Advisers
The portfolio challenge: becoming professional
Learning about having a professional profile…
Learning about bring professional…
Practicing acting professionally…
Learning to maintain your online identity…
Beyond the presentation layer...Focusing on the aspiring professional and the developing academic
The Portfolio LayerHow do we make, curate, and prepare content for presentation in LinkedIn?How do social media habits relate to this?
Begin with a Digital Toolbox
Developing a richer picture
Building the Digital ToolboxWhat apps or social media do you want to put in the digital toolbox? Why? What does it do?
How will it enhance our students:• reflective self• presence• profile• habits