social presence including digital footprint

1.       Explain social presence including digital footprint

 

Social presence is the power of learners to project their personal appearance into the community of inquiry, by this means featuring themselves as ‘real people.’

 

Social presence is the level of communication whether it is face to face or through technology.  

Social presence is all to do with body language, the lack of conversations and the motivation. Social presence through technology has different levels of low and high, video calling is a high social presence because you can see how they are reacting, their body language and their facial expressions. Audi o calling is a low social presence because all you can hear is their voice.

 

Face to face social presence is the highest communicating as you can see each other’s body language, if they’re interested or not, if they are paying attention or not.

 

Examples of bad social presence

 

·         On your phone when people are trying to talk to you

·         Not paying attention

·         Showing no interest

·         Falling asleep when people are talking

 

http://www.slideshare.net/warrenhallnz/social-presence-in-online-communities

 

The link above is a slide show, slides 7-12 show us examples of social presence clues.

 

On the Internet a digital footprint is the word used to describe the footprints that people leave online. This is information transmitted online, such as forum registration, e-mails and attachments, uploading videos or digital images and any other form of transmission of information — all of which leaves traces of personal information about you available to others online.

 

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/digital_footprint.html

 

This link above is telling us what the meaning of digital footprints is. Digital footprints are personal things you put online for others to see. Digital footprint is the word that is used to label the trails that people leave online, such as uploading pictures, videos etc. all that people online will be able to view whenever they want to until or is ever deleted.

 

http://www.internetsociety.org/your-digital-footprint-matters

 

This link above tells us that it is quite impossible not to leave any footprints behind, even the comments on Facebook, retweets on twitter even from accounts that are private leave a trail. You should have an understanding of the private settings on your social media accounts and should

 

Digital footprint can be traced by Facebook, where you can see who you searched up, what pages you’ve liked, your photographs and anything you have uploaded. Google, where you can search up a name and it can trace up any person and they’re links to social media links as well as pictures. YouTube, anyone can watch all of your videos that you have uploaded.

 

 

Natalie Patterson