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It's All About Your Reputation

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In lol...OMG!, by Matt Ivester, Chapter 7 explores the safeguards to help protect and manage your online presence. This are tips to help with long term safeguards for your online reputation. These seven steps are Google yourself, clean up contents on your accounts, update on privacy settings, ask for content to be removed, update and strengthen passwords, set up Google alert for your name, and claim your name. First is Googling yourself. This allows you to understand what type of information is out there about you. Ivester points out that Google only contains about 66% of the informatal searches, and for thorough results would be to check other search engine sites, such as Yahoo! and Bing . The next step is to go through your accounts and clean them up to best represent your best self. Ivester suggested going through Facebook first, looking at the different pages you "liked" and what they can be associated with, go t hrough your photos, vide

Augmented Reality Evolving Our Minds

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Augmented reality definition is a technology that superimposes a computer generated image on a us er's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. This is the new age of wonder for everyone. There are easy ways to create a world of your own at the tips of your fingers. With the help of different apps, the world of both exploration and learning is attainable. Anatomy 4D is an augmented reality that uses a prompt from printed paper which allows human anatomy on different levels. You are able to rotate, zoom in and out, a nd add the different types of systems within the human body. By adjusting the settings for the image, you can look at individual systems or just one within the human body. This is a great tool for visual base learners and can create a complex system into a more manageable concept to students. We also were able to explore the Seattle Space Needle in a similar fashion. Seattle Space Needle App Anatomy 4D App Anatomy

Presenting A Digital Tale

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We were able to have a great opportunity to talk to Jamie Sinclair about her social media success. Jamie Sinclair was able to build up a career and social media branding. She started to build up her presence through YouTube videos about her passion of curling. She has three platforms with YouTube , Twitter, and different blogs. The biggest key to building a brand is using the same, or similar, handels between platforms. This would ensure followers would be able to find the user from platform to platform. Connecting and linking these together will allow the brands to build against other brands. She suggested to find what your passionate with and build on top of it. She first made a logo to create her brand. There are also key points to try and organize the content of your social media. This is to show followers your passions and allowing them to get excited. The best way to organize your content is to share your story, what you want to do, and your goals. The writing of scripts