Your+Digital+Footprint

What's in a Name? You Decide how You are Known - Email, Twitter, Nings, and Social Bookmarking

As you create and expand your Personal Learning Network, consider how you will want to be "known" in learning networks. For example, Vicki Davis is the well known [|Cool Cat Teacher]. Bud Hunt is known as [|Bud the Teacher]. You may shorten your name (Emily Vickery is ehvickery on Twitter) or use your full name, such as [|Hall Davidson] on Twitter. Will Richardson is known as willrich45 on Twitter and Delicious.

[|Footprints in the Digital Age - Giving Students Ownership of Learning] by Will RIchardson

Will writes about networking as a new literacy and how important it is for students and teachers. In his tips on teachers building their own networks, he suggests using your real name to be "Googled well."