Day V

--Originally published at Identidad digital

What’s up people,

Today was a bittersweet day for me: it was the last session of our semanai. I was satisfied, tired and sad. I have learned a lot this week. It felt really good to explore topics that have little to do with my everyday life and studies. Besides I finally started blogging. I really like writing and blogging is an activity that since a few years ago has gotten my attention but I had never tried.

After this week I have decided not only to continue this blog but also creating another where I can write about the “philosophy” (I guess), history and ideas behind the pictures I take and post on Instagram.

A thing I liked about blogging and the “Digital Identity” course is that it has helped me to clear my mind and think about what I have learned during the day. I hope that if people read my blog they can get something from it, fun, a lesson, encouraging words, or whatever they are looking for. Anyways I’m sure I can get lots of good stuff from it. During the curse I have learned to be less scared about sharing a bit of my life on the internet. Besides if I post something that later on I will not like or agree with I can always erase it.

On the other hand the session of today was quite helpful because we learned about expressing one’s self through video. Diego Zavala showed us several websites were stories were told though videos. The one that I liked the most was about a boy and his father, it really touched my heart, I actually wanted to cry but I was too embarrassed to do it.

Ken, if you ever read this, thanks a lot for this week. It has been the best semana I for me so far. From my experience you are a great professor, having you as a full semester teacher must be super dope.

Cheers.

A cancer warrior

--Originally published at Frida Díaz

Rebecca Hogue is a blogger that agreed to have a conversation with us for iTec. She currently manages three blogs and is cursing a PhD in education. During our time with her, she focused on demonstrating us how irrelevant haters can be.

According to Rebecca, the first step of making a blog post is planning. You need to know what your post will be about ad what´s the purpose of it. Then, you need to find out how much do you want to share and how long will it take to express yourself.

Whenever you publish something, it is impossible for everyone to like it, but the best advice that Rebecca gives us is to ignore the haters. Criticism is fine, as long as it is politely. But whenever someone replies on your posts by being insulting, do not answer. Haters need to be eradicated, and the only way to do so is to find out what feeds them, and then take it away. And what feeds haters? Reactions. Negative reactions from the publisher.

This way, if you decide to ignore your haters, they will eventually go away. Nowadays, there are many laws that prevent cyber bullying. So if you believe that ignoring them is not working, you can also rely on the government.

She also narrated to us how she was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. This year was an emotional one for her since various people asked her daily how she was feeling and she needed to explain how she was not okay.

Goodbye iTecGDA

--Originally published at Untitled.

First of all, I want to thank our proffesor Ken Bauer and all the guest speakers we had during this week-long course for their time and knowledge. All of them were very nice, taught us a lot and motivated me to keep making me present online!

I learned a lot this week. Now I know what Digital Identity is (or should I say Digital Presence). It made me reflect on everytime I post something online or when I interact with someone I do not know online. I learned that what I post online is a part of my identity and that I should be careful with what I post online, so I do not hurt others or I give a bad image to myself.

But my final conclusion is that as a person, I should be more invested in being a resident in the social media I use because that could bring me a lot of good opportunities, from meeting new people to making my voice heard.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who read me during this week. I do not think I will keep writing because well, writing is not my thing, but I love to tweet, so you should follow me on Twitter (@thecokemermaid).

Reflection on Day 5

--Originally published at Untitled.

(Credit goes to jcpolur)

HERE’S MY REFLECTION OF THE DAY:

When expressing yourself online, you need to be careful with trolls and cyber bullying. One way to combat them is to ignore them and do not feed them because if you ignore them, they eventually get tired and live you alone.

Also, although blogging and writing in public spaces can help us out as therapy or just to free ourselves from things that we keep inside, we need to have boundaries online. We need to know the difference between personal and private presence. You do not want to have private information in public. What we need to do is to share our personal nature without sharing private information that can put us in danger and if you want to blog about something that involves someone else, try to ask for permission.

Don’t make private information public.

QUINTO DÍA – FIN DE LA SEMANA I

--Originally published at HEYIT'SDANY

Primero que nada quiero corregir mi comentario de ayer, hoy definitivamente fue mi día favorito de la semana. Empezamos con Ken explicándonos y haciendo preguntas sobre nuestro blog y demás. Diego Zavala, uno de los profesores de la carrera de comunicación (LCMD), vino a darnos una platica sobre los proyectos audiovisuales y nos enseñó a editar. Algunos tuvieron que usar página online para editar su video y otros, como es mi caso, usamos un programa en nuestra computadora. Mi favorito siempre ha sido Adobe Premiere pero en este caso usé iMovie por la facilidad de la edición. Para la música, usé una página que recomiendo bastante porque puedes descargarla gratis y con derechos de autor, lo cual es legal jaja.

Aquí está mi video

Después de eso tuvimos una conferencia en linea con Rebecca Hogue y Helen Deward. Con ellas platicamos sobre los blogs y cómo deberíamos involucrarnos con el sitio de otros. Les comparto la conferencia.

Finalmente Ken se despidió de nosotros y cada uno se fue a donde la vida lo llevara, jaja. Creo que fue una semana realmente productiva y que me gustó bastante, ya que muchos salieron de su zona de comfort y empezaron a escribir. En mi caso, la escritura es a lo que me quiero dedicar y aunque ya estaba familiarizada bastante bien con los blogs, el estar escribiendo todos los días me gustó mucho.

Día 5.. y ultimo

--Originally published at Semana i – Digital Identity

Sin duda alguna Digital Identity cerró con broche de oro…

Foto descargada de: https://unsplash.com/collections/curated/122?photo=NYrVisodQ2M

Hoy tuvimos una muy interesante platica con Diego Zavala, quien nos hablo de varias formas en las cuales nos podemos expresar a través de internet, así como también diferentes técnicas para realizar videos cortos con el objetivo de hacer más divertido y diferente la forma en que nos expresamos hacia el mundo.

Yo había subido un video ayer en mi post pasado, en el cual hicimos pequeñas tomas de cosas simples pero muy agradables que hacemos día con día y las cuales disfrutamos mucho; y con algunos consejos de Diego lo mejoramos y a mi parecer quedo fabuloso.

Aprendí mucho en este curso, ahora tengo un panorama mas amplio y una perspectiva diferente en lo que a identidad digital se refiere. Entendí que el tipo de persona que reflejas en internet puede afectar tanto para bien como para mal tu vida y que hay que tener mucho cuidado con lo que subimos, puesto que lo que alguna vez estuvo en internet, jamás se borra.

Ya para terminar, creo que solo queda agradecer al profesor Ken Bauer por su tiempo, todas sus enseñanzas, su paciencia pero sobre todo su grandiosa actitud, sin duda alguna es un modelo a seguir.

An influential lady

--Originally published at Frida Díaz

Maha Bali is an Associated in Professional Practices that is currently living in Egypt. She uses twitter as an educational tool and her blog has the particularity that it shows how long it would take to read every post. Her blogs are usually read in about 5 minutes, but the comments that follow can take longer to read than the post itself. Her daughter plays an important role in her life, and in her Hangouts conversations (she’s adorable).

She disagrees with the ideology that millennials spend too much time on their cell phones instead of socializing due to the reason that it is impossible to know if what they are doing isn´t truly important for them. She believes that technology does not break people apart; on the contrary, it brings them together. There’s a huge amount of introverts around the world that gain confidence whenever the use technology for communication. Face to face communication is overrated, it is not necessarily more important to pay attention to someone in front of you than to someone over the Internet.

Regarding the blogging part, she encourages mentioning others on your blog, as long as you are trying to get the best part of them. She believes posts are not supposed to be so long (no more than 1,000 words) unless you have something more important to say. If the post is too long, you can divide it into steps. Also, she suggests to write a short summary on top of the post if it´s too long.

She suggests being careful whenever you are talking about politics, different cultures and other sensitive topics and always use respectful words. In case of getting in trouble, an apology will never have the same impact as the first post.

Pictures are great for explaining something, but do not overload our post with them. Videos can also be helpful, but the time of the reader should also be considered before using this source. Every source of media has its advantages: video can help express your emotions and transfer them to the viewer, podcasts can be listened everywhere like in the car or while coking, but the post can make the writer appear smarter as they have more time to think and edit what they are posting.

All of this was retrieved from the conversation we had with her last Thursday; also, her blog has realy interesting articles that everyone should read.

Day 5 – #iGoodbye #iTecGDA

--Originally published at iWeek – iTec

First I want to thanks Ken for this workshop, I learned a lot from all the topics of the week, also to all the great people that joined us this week!
Thanks to Dave Cormier, Laura Gogia and Lee Skallerup, Alan Levine and Amy Burvall; Autumm Caines , Bonnie Stewart and Sundi Richard; Maha Bali and finally Diego Zavala, Rebecca Hogue and Helen DeWaard.
Thank you all guys for sharing all you could. It means a lot!

Today we had Diego Zavala in the Auditorio 1, right here at Tec. He share the importance about making videos of our own. So in order of his activity to be completed, my friend Ever and I want to share our video with all of you guys:

We hope you liked it.

Also we had with us via Google Hangouts Rebecca Hogue and Helen DeWaard.
They discuss with us about our digital presence online, about what we should post if it is too personal or responsible, It was really helpful having you here guys! Thank you!
Check out the whole video on the link below.

That was it from today, I would probably continue with the blogging thing but on my other site antonioangelm.wordpress.com

Thank you all for sharing, and thank you again Ken, for this amazing workshop, see you around I hope.

CogDog

--Originally published at Frida Díaz

Alan Levine a.k.a CogDog is an expert on the implementation of new technologies in education that agreed on having a conversation with us during the iTec course. He usually uses his blog to post the solution he found to a problem he considers relevant. For achieving this purpose, it is necessary to guide the reader through the process of thinking he had while he was coming through the solution.

He feels everyone should post whenever they feel like it, without established schedules. Sometimes he posts about three times per week and sometimes he does it once in a month. Everyone wonders if their work is actually great, so it´s okay to feel afraid of publishing, but you still have to do it.

Regarding the security issues someone may face during this communication with the rest of the world, Alan believes that if your information is really important to you, you shouldn’t be posting it online.

Furthermore, he believes that images inside a post are important to keep the reader’s attention. The images he uses for his post tend to be pictures he took during his free time. He assures that this activity helps him get relaxed and eventually he starts seeing the world differently, which helps him solve his problems more efficiently.

His pictures had been used for commercial purposes without his permission. But instead of getting upset, the CogDog suggests us to feel proud that our work is being appreciated and distributed, especially when it helps other solve their problems.

You can read more about Alan Levine on his blogs: http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/ and http://cog.dog/. I also suggest to get a look at his github or flickr accounts.

Are you really secure?

--Originally published at #iTecGDA – METANOIA

Probably not, neither am I. At least that’s what I’ve learnt from watching Mr. Robot on Net(PirateBay)Flix. You are probably quite lazy with your passwords and have something like “hamburger1” or your name, or your birth date and I won’t judge you but I’ll tell you it can really screw up your life. I don’t know about you but if someone somehow got access to one of my emails they could get access to all of them, to my contacts, to my ITESM account, to my FB account, my videogames accounts (doesn’t sound that bad but at this point they are worth 10s of thousands of dollars because that’s all I do), my PayPal account and with that they could buy anything they want with my debit and credit cards.

There are some software meant to protect you from this but it’s regularly social engineering what gets you screwed, that or keyloggers. So why risk getting your life ruined in minutes for having an unsafe password? Because we are quite lazy and think it’s not gonna happen to us, and it’s probably not going to unless you are someone important or particularly dumb.

If you, like me, are quite lazy I recommend you use the same word in every password, a word you create yourself for example “trepctio” and then add three numbers you change depending on the site. That should be safe enough at least in my opinion. Good luck and hope you don’t get your Club Penguin account stolen!