Thanks to all of you for some excellent discussions about online identity. Yes it is a huge area and impossible for one person to cover everything, but I hope you agree that collectively the group has produced a variety of interesting perspectives and resources on the topic. You are allowed to be decisive though! You don\u2019t have to agree with everything \u2013 you are very welcome to be \u201cconstructively critical\u201d. If you\u2019ve said you like the positive view taken in post A, and you also like the negative view taken in post B \u2013 which actually resonates most with you and why?<\/p>\n
A few of you are taking a while to moderate comments other students are leaving\u00a0on your blog. This means opportunities for discussion are missed and also makes it tricky for us to find the comments when giving feedback.<\/p>\n
More of you have taken time to respond to comments received and this is helping the conversations and learning along. Keep it up.<\/p>\n
Several of your explorations during this topic missed the fine distinction between using different accounts to register for services and portraying yourself as a different person altogether. Once this distinction is made, the argument for having multiple identities is an entirely different ball game from just managing different accounts and passwords. We’ll get into this more in the next topic.<\/p>\n
Here are some general thoughts on \u201craising the bar\u201d for topic 3 with regard to your blogs and your overall approach to the module, now that we are approaching half way through the course:<\/p>\n
Include your \u201crecent posts\u201d in a column of your blog, so it is easy for the reader to navigate between them. A \u201ccomments feed\u201d is also a good idea, and an \u201cAbout\u201d page.<\/p>\n
Be creative \u2013 rely less on text. For example, use pictures\/diagrams\/videos\/embedded tweets to illustrate a point rather than a long verbal description. There is no \u201cone best way\u201d but learn from what you like about how other students have approached the task (don\u2019t forget to credit them!)<\/p>\n
Make links where relevant between the various topics we are covering, to demonstrate how your understanding is developing through the module.<\/p>\n
Some of you are making good use of twitter in terms of highlighting your posts and encouraging others to comment on them to further the debates. But you can take this further \u2013 make more strategic use of twitter by sharing resources that will be of use of others in the group and that they might not normally have access to.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d also like to see more engagement with people beyond the module \u2013 if you have drawn upon someone\u2019s work in your post \u2013 tweet them a link to it and thank them. You can\u2019t guarantee a response of course but you never know! Often these things work indirectly \u2013 you might not get the immediate benefit you were hoping for, but it all helps to boost your visibility and other connections may develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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