Examining My Social Networks Reputation by Using Reppler

I have not recognized the importance of building my impression and reputation as a scholar on social media after I started the IST doctoral program. I have used Facebook as my social networking tool the most often. Before coming to IU, the main purposes of using Facebook were sharing music videos, communicating with my friends from different places through messages, and sharing my pictures when I traveled, etc. Nothing was really serious on my Facebook. However, after I started working in the Teaching Technology Lab (TTL) in my first doctoral year, I learned about the importance of building my own digital identity and my own reputation and image in the digital world. Although I still share some things about my personal life with my friends and families in Taiwan on Facebook, I started post something educational on my Facebook as well. Basically, I've tried to continuously share educational news and resources as well as join professional groups on my Facebook. So far, I feel very comfortable to use my Facebook as a tool to market myself and get educational/professional information from those groups I involve in. However, I still sometimes struggle with how much/what kinds of personal life information I should or shouldn't post on Facebook so that I won't destroy my professional reputation online. I think I will have a clearer understanding about this after attending Dr. George Veletsianos' presentation on digital scholarship.

The following two images are screenshots of my social networking reputation/impression score and results by using the social media monitoring service - Reppler. 

This is a screenshot of my Reppler score.

This is a screenshot of my social network impression analysis from Reppler.

When I google myself on the Google Search Engine, fortunately, all the results showed up on the first page were all about me from my LinkedIn, Google+, Blogger accounts, as well as my service positions in the IST Conference and the GIST. I guess it is because I have a pretty unique name and I used my name and email information consistently for most of my social media accounts, so the search results showed up with consistent information of what I have been using and doing recently.

At first, I created my LinkedIn account before I graduated from UPenn and tried to look for a job or an internship in the U.S. The Career Service Center at Penn strongly recommended me to use LinkedIn to build my professional portfolio online. Eventually, I found it is a really powerful tool to build and expand my professional networks. I found many scholars update their LinkedIn accounts more frequently than their information on their own websites. Having up-to-date positive information in people's profession is one of the vital elements to maintain their online reputation and impression. I feel that it would be a lot easier and better for me to completely devote in two or three specific online platforms to build my own digital scholarship with good reputation than to have lots of different platforms with incomplete or outdated information online. So, I think I will definitely keep using LinkedIn and Facebook as main tools to maintain or improve my professional image online.

This is a screenshot of the results when I google myself on Google Search Engine.

This is a screenshot of the results when I google myself on Google Images.

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FA13 - W200 Teaching - Self Evaluation

This is my first semester of teaching W200, an undergraduate course. For me, it is not only a challenging mission that I want to accomplish, but also a great opportunity for me to improve my education profession and instructional skills. 

First, let me first evaluate my strengths and weaknesses in teaching this technology integration course. 

After my first time teaching of W200 this week, I reflected myself that classroom time management is my first priority that I need to improve for this class. Some unpredictable things can happen in class some times. Therefore, I need to learn how to solve problems (students' questions or technical problems) as fast as I can and not delay on my instruction schedule as possible. Most importantly, students should be given enough time to do their hands-on activities and practices to process the knowledge and skills they are learning. Also, giving enough opportunities to ask questions is something I need to do more in my class. I believe that as I teach more, I would know how to keep the class rolling more.

I believe that being a good educator is not an easy job. From my own perspective, a good educator should be knowledgable about the course content with lots of authentic examples for students from different backgrounds and needs. Although I think I can be familiar with the course content, the skill that I also have to improve is to know what students in each subject area need and to give specific examples related to their subject areas or grade levels as useful and helpful feedback. Another instructional skill that I need to improve in my teaching is to ask good and inspiring questions that can trigger students to think deeper about what they are learning and why it is important to them.

Although this is my first experience teaching undergraduates and my teaching knowledge and skills are still developing, I am confident that I have passion and motivation to teach W200. I think I have enough patient with solving problems for my students and trying to use different ways to engage my students in their learning journey in my class. I am looking forward to learn from my mentor, senior instructors as well as my students.

[WEEK 1] SELF-INTRODUCTION

Hello everyone!

My name is Yin-Chan (Janet) Liao. I come from Taiwan and I am a first year residential doctoral student in IST program at IU. This is my second semester in IST program. Although lots of things are still new to me, I am getting used to the learning environment and have met so many superb people in this program. R541 is my first experience of having a course combined with residential and distance students, I look forward to meeting and interacting with not only residential students, but also distance students online.

In terms of my teaching and learning background, I obtained my bachelor's degree in Elementary Education with one-year teaching experience as a practicing teacher in Taiwan. Before coming to IU, I studied in Learning Science and Technologies Master's program at University of Pennsylvania for one and a half years. Now I am working in Teaching Technology Lab (TTL) on the second floor of School of Education. As one of the TTL staff, my responsibilities are to assist students to better use technology tools in their learning as well as to support AIs for better technology integration in their teaching in W200.  It's always been a fantastic journey for me experiencing different cultures and working with people from different countries with various backgrounds in the U.S. 

In my free time, I love to do outdoor activities when the weather is nice. Playing golf, tennis, and basketball are my favorite. In winter, I go to the gym a lot. In addition to doing exercise, I like to read in some local and unique coffee shops. Yet it seems like there are not many local coffee shops in Bloomington. I always enjoy observing and exploring something fun in my daily life. Also, I am always interested in experiencing something I've never done before.

I am really excited about sharing and learning regarding instructional design, also making R541 an interesting and valuable course together with the instructors and my colleagues.

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Week 1 - Tagxedo

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