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ME: MAKING SURE WE ARE ALL IN THE BOAT AND READY TO PADDLE TOGETHER
May 18th, 2026 – May 24th, 2026
WEEK 2 – Personal Digital Identity vs Professional Digital Identity https://youtu.be/4rHnix0eU94
Read: PLN space through Social Media platforms (Developing awareness)
Privacy, Ethics & Security in Digital Spaces Developing Awareness of Privacy
https://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/quizzes/privacy-and-surveillance/ Regan, P., & Jesse, J. (2019).
V and R Mapping
What is a Visitor/Resident (PDF)
Visitor & Resident Maps
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7802/6515
Blog Post – Share your Visitor & Resident Map with your group.
Feel free to create a similar map from the provided PDF using Canva, clipart, or hand-written.
Each participant must respond to one other person in the class group.
• What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network?
• What could the student consider in expanding their professional learning network?
• Consider in your blog submission how an employer would respond if you applied for a job with them and they assessed your social media presence via your digital identity.
Thread Discussion: How does data privacy and security limit and/or promote a PLN? In your network how can you create a digital identity/reputation?
Your PLN – Inclusion & Community Engagement.
• How diverse is your PLN?
• Are you learning from a variety of diverse voices and are you expanding your understanding of the views of others?
• What is a learning outcome of your PLN and how are you ensuring your exposure to diversity and inclusion?
WATCH: PLN DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND SOCIAL MEDIA – Course YouTube Channel
READ: One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion Shelley Moore and Leyton Schnellert Introduction & Part 1.
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/reader.action?docID=4832579&ppg=11
READ: Media & Social Justice – CHAPTER 4 A New Vision for Public Media Open, Dynamic, and Participatory Jessica Clark and Patricia Aufderheide
Blog Post – How has your thinking about inclusion and PLN evolved?
Create a blog post on inclusion in a professional setting of your choice – reflect on how social media can play a role in helping you establish messaging and themes that are inclusive and diverse.
In context of employment, having a PLN that is public and engaging requires risk assessment and policy understanding, consider the following:
• How does social media engage communications?
• How does social media challenge communications?
• Is it inclusive?
• Does your PLN amplify the views of others?
• The policies of employer social media communication expectations.
What are the benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing that understands where you are coming from with messaging that impacts the community?
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ME: FEELING EXCITED TO GET THINGS GOING – please read the post below, but here’s my intro video
May 11th, 2026 – May 17th 2026
Welcome to the first week of EDCI 338 A01 with Jesse Miller.
I trust the lead-up to the start of the summer term has been somewhat restful. I will have an intro video to share as I confirm our class list and curriculum – feel free to watch it at your leisure once sent out.
We will be communicating using MS TEAMS; log in via your UVIC email. We’re going to ease into this.
Please sign up via computer or mobile device (available in the app store) and message me @jessemiller when you have set up your account profile.
| In the first week, you will start to connect with your classmates as you begin to form your personalized learning network with the participants of this course. You should also take some time to reflect and consider the themes of this course and complete some readings to introduce yourself to the concept of Personal Learning Networks (PLN). Review course outline & overview (link below) Review privacy and confidentiality expectations (below) Blog setup Open Ed – Clone EDCI338 Template *REALLY IMPORTANT* Establish MS TEAMS communication profile Set Up WordPress & Class-Specific Social Media Accounts (Threads, Instagram, YouTube) Personalize your blog Create an introductory post & video Organizing content with categories Coordinate & Organize learning pods |
I will be assigning Learning Pods as we confirm participants; please make an effort to complete your introduction on your blog, personalize your blog images/video etc.
A reminder, any images, videos, or content you source from the internet should be attributed to the source/creator of the content (even if the creator of the content is you).
Course Outline Here
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Week One in the outline.
PLN & Public Communications & Digital Identity
You will participate in a class discussion using online communications tools on Personal Learning Networks and digital identity, based on the readings below.
As well, you will work within your network groups, and complete a digital identity exercise in your blog exploring the following:
• What does it mean to network using social media?
• How are we motivated to participate in networked publics?
• What are the risks & rewards of public communications?
Digital Identity
• What is a digital identity?
• How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?
• How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits?
Blog Post #1 – Your first blog post should include reviewing the questions above and ideas on Personal Learning Networks and digital identity, based on both the readings and videos provided.
Additionally, in your network group on MS TEAMS, complete a digital identity exercise. You are encourage to reflect on your controlled and uncontrolled social media presence – this requires you to privately source and identify your social media content that you have either created or have had shared – this discussion exercise is reflective and designed to help you curate a professional digital identity while controlling private content (note – if any content is uncomfortable to explore or discuss openly, please consider reaching out to myself or support networks).
READ: Course Introductory Conversations
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-network age/0/steps/24644
https://bright.uvic.ca/d2l/le/content/68182/viewContent/363492/View
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3559/3131
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and society/article/view/networked
• How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?
• How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits?
READ: Identity-Making and Social Media – Spracklen, Karl
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137405876_6
Digital professional identity: Dear Internet! Who am I?
WATCH: ERIC STOLLER – What is Digital Identity?
The Value of Digital Identity for the Global Economy and Society
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