Online Trust, Reputation and Values

Tioki is a combination social network for educators and job search service. It will appeal to younger teachers who are learning their way into the profession.  The profile elements help new teachers highlight their skills.

While I concentrate on E-Learning, I wanted to curate this interesting social network based job search site.  Young teachers are a precious commodity. Those saavy enough to use this service well have already distinguished themselves as above average.

For those involved in virtual education at the K-12 level, it may be well worth your time to network here.  

Extremely valuable! I little mentoined topic of digital citizenship that needs more airtime!

Use the Internet by respecting the work of those who help you learn!

If you are planning to create a visual CV for yourself soon, do not waste your time trying out the many cool alternative tools that are available out there to create one, like Easel.ly, LinkedIN Resume Builder, Vizify, Infogr.am and several others.

In my view, even if you use a fancy visualization tool, what makes the most difference is having a unique visual "idea" to support the presentation of your credentials.

This is why I suggest that, if you have the fancy and skills to create your own visual CV, there is no better resource for inspiration that I know of, than this huge Pinterest collection by Randy Krum.

It is invaluable. Worth even a paid print edition. 9/10

http://pinterest.com/rtkrum/infographic-visual-resumes/

*My compliments to Randy for creating and maintaining this.

Visual CV, infografic

Company's are creating infographics to tell their story. Individuals are doing the same to get hired.  Shouldn't non-profits be doing this too?  Yes, you should.  Find a Photoshop Volunteer and make this happen!  -Ken

www.2080nonprofits.org

If you are an author, blogger or journalist and you would like to create an online professional portoflio of your best work, here is a free service that provides a simple, but excellent personal branding and news portofolio service: Pressfolios.

Pressfolio is basically a portoflio site service for writers and journalists who want to organize, store and showcase their best content online.

You provide URLs for the articles and clips you have already published and Pressfolios crawls out to grab its key meta-data and makes it easy for you to integrate it in the free one-page profiler that Pressfolio creates automatically for you.

You can create different sections of your content clips as to organize them according to different topics / industries / issues / years / publishers.

Last but not least Pressfolios automatically helps you create a profile page for yourself to support your content showcase, in which you can list your "professional focus", skills, social networks you are active on, and some kind of text introduction alongside an image of yours and a theme-image that you can also choose for yourself.

Free to use.

More info and try it out now: http://www.pressfolios.com/

Here is a real world example I have put together to fully check Pressolios and its features: http://robingood.pressfolios.com/

Portfolios showcase your artifacts of learning.  

(From the article): And it doesn't stop there: according to StartWire.com, one of the web's top sites for job searching, "Referrals are the #1 source of hires in corporate America today. And, recent research shows that 'referral' hires not only stay in their jobs longer but that they perform better over the long term."

If you're new at asking for a referral, or if you're unsure if you're using the correct approach, here are a few tips to keep in mind.

Use your mouse.

Nice Tips on Spicing up Your Linkedin Profile

My LinkedIn profile has been my default resume for some time.  I'm looking forward to tweaking it with some media. 

Here's a Pinterest board of graphic resume examples worth following. 

This is a modern creative CV (Curriculum Vitae / Resume) which you can use. To do so you need a Google Drive account:

- https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2424384&topic=14942&rd=1

Open your Google Drive account and copy this template to your account, give it an other name and change its content to your needs...

Check for more CV's here:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners?q=CV

A clever way to get your resume online and easy to link to! 

Smart to store a cv/resume online.  Always on hand.

"Four units comprise the curriculum resources. Each unit consists of standalone yet complementary lesson plans that play off a creative rights scenario presented through a case study.

Each unit has 4-6 of these project-oriented activities, one of which serves as the culminating lesson for the unit. Guiding questions help set the expectation for what students learn, and pre/post assessments establish baseline knowledge to gauge student learning. Modification and Extension suggestions recommend ways to abridge or expand the activities within the unit, and provide tips for engaging parents and peers outside of the classroom.

You’ll have to register to download the actual units (PDF format)."

The rights and responsibilities of being a Digital Citizen.

Curriculum units to help young people learn about ethical and responsible online behaviour.

Your reputation is now threatened by immortality. How do you want to be remembered? 

Our children are growing up in a digital world that is completely foreign to how we grew up. We didn't have the Internet as a ubiquitous prescence in our lives. To make things worse, the landscape keeps changing on us, the parents, and the children. It is now, more than ever, crucial to teach our children how to be more than "street smart."

It used to be that having street smarts was helpful, because that way you could protect yourself from being taken advantage of. It carries an element of shrewdness, for one's own protection this is a good thing. Nowadays we need to apply that online.

This video is short, but it makes a powerful illustration. Juan Enriquez likens our online activity to an electronic tattoo, virtually permanent. Something we adults need to learn also, but moreover our children, as they grow up in the Internet jungle. And it is a jungle. 

Online teachers learn to live with great online transparency.  It's wise to Google yourself, and become more aware of just how you 'look' on the Internet.

Professionals do this all the time.  But kids don't.  As teachers we often learn best by teaching a subject.  Are digital footprints someting likely to show up in your curriculum?