MSLA: Creating and Maintaining Your Online Identity

Thanks to the Massachusetts School Library Association for inviting me to present, not once, but twice! I was thrilled to be a featured speaker this year.

Monday’s presentation focused on Creating and Maintaining Your Online Identity. Slides and links follow:

Slides:

Links:

http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/identity

Handout: Creating an Avatar

EDIT, 10/8/09: Thanks to Lucy Clerkin, for asking about cleaning up one’s identity, and offering a workshop for students on how to delete their social networking profiles.I added the following links to the “identity” tag in my delicious bookmarks:

Point students here, first: how to lock down their Facebook profiles:
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

Deleting your Facebook Account:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703

Deleting Your MySpace Profile:
http://faq.myspace.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/285

How to Delete Your LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/financial-markets/bond-markets/MKT_BON/19210-9089248?browseCategory=MKT_BON

How to Close Your Yahoo! Account
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/changing_users/edit-23.html

Excluding Your Site from the Wayback Machine:
http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php

Google Phonebook Removal
http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html

Delete Your Flickr Account:
http://www.flickr.com/profile_delete.gne

Flickr Privacy & Permissions
http://www.flickr.com/account/?tab=privacy

MSLA: Board Games and 21st Century Literacies

Thanks to the Massachusetts School Library Association for inviting me to present, not once, but twice! I was thrilled to be a featured speaker this year.

Sunday’s presentation was on Board Games and 21st Century Literacies; slides and links follow.

Slides:

Links:

Board Games played in session – http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/boardgamesmsla

Resources shared in session – http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/msla09

Further Resources:

Someone asked about MATH games:

• Numbers League Adventures in Addiplication (Bent Castle)
  basic math skills
• Fauna (Friedmann Friese)
  metrics and measurement
• Oregon (Rio Grande Games)
  Cartesian coordinate system

Money, Money, Money – paying for gaming resources (grant info!)

Participants may also be interested in my presentation for FAME on video games and 21 century literacies.

Finally, here is a  coupon for Game On! Gaming at the Library