--Originally published at Digital Identity

For the last day, Diego Zavala talked to us about the importance of videos. As an assignment we had to create our own video. I have no experience in this topic nor talent. To make the job easier and faster, since we had just an hour, I decided to team up with two friends.

The video will be shown soon, we are having difficulties uploading it to youtube.

 

--Originally published at Digital Identity

The word literacy refers to the ability to read, write and use arithmetic. However, technology  has given literacy a deeper meaning. Digital literacy refers to the ability to use digital technology and tools to locate, evaluate, use and create information.

With that in mind, we should not only pay attention to our digital skills but also to our digital literacies. According to Maha Bali skills are about what we do and how we do it, while literacies are also about why we do it, when we do it and for whom we do it.

An example of this is:

Digital skills: Using facebook and knowing how to make a post.

Digital literacies:  Using facebook because you have decided it is the adequate tool to publish what you are going to publish in that moment and you are reaching the people you want to reach.

 

 

--Originally published at Digital Identity

A great aspect of our digital presence is that we can form relationships through it. Our presence is not only the things that we share, it is our human essence. It is how do we make the people around us feel about us. How do they remember us.

Lets talk about being visitors and residents. These are concepts that describe the ways persons engage with the web.

Visitors: Individuals do not leave social trace online. They decide on the task they wish to perform and after completing it they go offline or move on to another task.

Residents: Individuals go online to connect to other people. It is about social presence.  It has a degree of social visibility: posting, tweeting or blogging. This type of behaviour leaves a persistent social trace.

We can map the different platforms we use everyday according to this types of behaviors and the degree of personal – institutional usage. By doing this activity we can analyze how we are using these tools.

As an example, here is my personal map.

 

 

 

--Originally published at Digital Identity

--Originally published at Digital Identity

Everything we do online generates information about us. This information will be accessed by someone at some point or another. That is why we should be careful of what we do, because that will be how people in the Internet see us.

Today Dave Cormier gave us the following advice about what to post online: If you will be embarrassed when your mom reads it, do not post it.

I guess we think that some of the things we publish are private, such as direct messages, so our moms are not able to read them, but we are wrong. All the information on the Internet is vulnerable and can be made public for everyone.

Besides of your mom, you should think about other people. People like your professors, classmates, workmates, bosses, etc. You should not post about something that will give them a bad idea about you or that may lead them to think about you in a different way other than the way you want them to.

An example of this is posting a joke that might seem racist. Maybe in the context you are telling it the joke isn’t, but someone who is not in the same context may be offended.

To conclude, we should be careful with the stuff we publish because it influences the way others see us.