In the video presentation "Visitors and Residents", Dr. White tackles some dated terminology and ideology. I like his idea of a shift away from "natives and immigrants" that implies that "old people just don't get this stuff". My first teaching assignment was "Careers and Technology" and one of the first things I noticed was that many teens were "digital immigrants" too. Not all of them had access to technology, and some just weren't very interested in it. Age had nothing to do with it, and sometimes skill didn't either.
Dr.White's new continuum of "visitor and resident" focuses more on the motivation to use social media. Residents see the internet as a social space, like a park, to collaborate and interact. Visitors see the internet as a collection of tools to be used and put back.
I think I am mostly a visitor, but working toward a similar place Dr.White described for himself. Although I am just starting out, I'm excited about the concept of creating a professional social presence. I was a visitor that picked up a few tools, but this blogging and using the accounts I've set up motivates me to keep it going. In the video he says residents treat their online presence like a brand, that needs to be visible and also productive in some way. I hope by the end of this program to have built my own "professional brand."
In my personal life, my non-institutional zone, I think I am in the middle of the spectrum. At first I thought I was more a visitor, as I use some social media to communicate with a few friends and family, but I'm not on there all the time and I'm not very invested as if it were a brand. Dr. White said that visitors don't see the need to have online networks, but may have the skill and desire to create them if it helps them be successful, and that is a good description of where I am now. I have created some strong social networks around my knitting and my art, in order to build my skill and collaborate, though not in much of an effort to build a brand. Therefore I put myself in the middle, leaning toward visitor. Like Dr.White, I'd prefer to keep my family and personal life offline for the most part.
Dr.White's new continuum of "visitor and resident" focuses more on the motivation to use social media. Residents see the internet as a social space, like a park, to collaborate and interact. Visitors see the internet as a collection of tools to be used and put back.
I think I am mostly a visitor, but working toward a similar place Dr.White described for himself. Although I am just starting out, I'm excited about the concept of creating a professional social presence. I was a visitor that picked up a few tools, but this blogging and using the accounts I've set up motivates me to keep it going. In the video he says residents treat their online presence like a brand, that needs to be visible and also productive in some way. I hope by the end of this program to have built my own "professional brand."
In my personal life, my non-institutional zone, I think I am in the middle of the spectrum. At first I thought I was more a visitor, as I use some social media to communicate with a few friends and family, but I'm not on there all the time and I'm not very invested as if it were a brand. Dr. White said that visitors don't see the need to have online networks, but may have the skill and desire to create them if it helps them be successful, and that is a good description of where I am now. I have created some strong social networks around my knitting and my art, in order to build my skill and collaborate, though not in much of an effort to build a brand. Therefore I put myself in the middle, leaning toward visitor. Like Dr.White, I'd prefer to keep my family and personal life offline for the most part.