Activity One: My Cyber Portrait
Where Am I? For this activity you will be drawing your own "cyber portrait." These are meant to give you a better understanding of yourself that your cyber portraits are private and will not be seen by anyone except the teacher unless you wish to share them.
9. Now I'd like you to draw connecting "bridges" between your various online identities. For example, if your nickname or avatar in one environment can be connected through a user profile to your e-mail account, where you post your real name, then there is a bridge between an environment where you use a nickname and one where you can be identified. If at all possible, show how this "bridging" occurs. See the example at the right. Remember at the beginning of this exercise when you were asked to draw a square for the physical world, and a circle for the virtual world? On your piece of paper:
10. Divide into groups of four. Open the Cyber Portrait Q & A handout and ask each other the questions on the sheet. Save your Cyber Portraits as we will be using them for another activity. Read the article on internet anonymity |
Above is an example of a virtual world circle.
Above we can see a number of bridges between the different online identities in this cyber portrait.
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