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By: Some Tech Sense » Blog Archive » Creating Online Profiles

Some Tech Sense » Blog Archive » Creating Online Profiles — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:26:06 +0000

[...] A few weeks ago, he gave the same presentation to Pudong’s high school students. In his blog, The Thinking Stick, Jeff discussed what he presented to the students of SAS. We talked about creating an online [...]

By: From the Outside Looking In… » Blog Archive » Creating Online Profiles

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:21:20 +0000

[...] weeks ago, Jeff gave a similar presentation to Pudong’s high school students. In his blog, The Thinking Stick, Jeff discussed what he presented to the students of SAS. We talked about creating an online [...]

By: The Thinking Stick » Blog Archive » Making an impact

The Thinking Stick » Blog Archive » Making an impact — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:37:34 +0000

[...] Oct. 30 I wrote about a presentation I gave to our High School student body on Oct. 29th. To date it was [...]

By: Jeff Utecht — Educator, Consultant, Presenter

Jeff Utecht — Educator, Consultant, Presenter — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:37:01 +0000

[...] about how to create their digital profile in a positive way. On The Thinking Stick I posted a reflection of the whole process and is one I’m looking forward to doing more of in other [...]

By: Sammie

Sammie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:35:48 +0000

I think this presentation would have been great to see. I know in our school Facebook and You Tube are huge. 98% of our school uses it, including most teachers. It is a great way to keep in touch but also can come back and haunt you if you put to much information on it. I believe social networking is a great way for people to talk to each other and learn.

By: Andrew the great

Andrew the great — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:01:53 +0000

WOW! I have never read something SO powerful!!

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:39:00 +0000

I think social networking is a really cool thing to have. It allows you connect to your friends no matter where there at. It’s neat he shows them how to do it and encourages them to use it safely.

By: Anna Niemeyer

Anna Niemeyer — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:04:44 +0000

It sounds like it was a great presentation that really connected to your students. Your approach to presenting to the kids was a great way to relate to them. Which Youtube Videos did you use for this presentation? I assume that you used the video with the bulletin picture that keeps reappearing; but what was the other?

By: Sara Nitschke

Sara Nitschke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:44:30 +0000

First of all this sounds like a really neat presentation and a unique way of getting your message across. Kids are diving headfirst into the worldwide web without understanding how they are being perceived on there. I think everyone has a part of their private life that they might not want their teacher or boss to find out about, but doesn’t affect their professional life at all. Unfortunately when you put this stuff on the web, it becomes public. If it is inappropriate, that speaks badly for your school or workplace. This is where the issue lies. Your online profile is a part of your entire personality, a reflection of yourself and the groups you are part of. Students believe these sites are their private little worlds, and finding out teachers were a large part must have shocked them. Private and professional lives should be kept apart but the web is bringing them together. If people need a more private and personal space to share with friends, they need to be more careful.

By: Tod Baker

Tod Baker — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:32:24 +0000

Jeff,

Sometimes despite all precautions our privacy gets compromised by others in our network. Students are often surprised to realize that if just one person in their network changes the privacy settings on a shared image, for example, from “for friends only” to “anyone” then that image is now public.

It’s a great conversation topic with students.