Creating and Nurturing Your Digital Identity

In this session, we will explore how scholars and librarians create their digital identities, and how they can nurture them over time to enhance the personal and professional potential of being online. Participants will have opportunities to reflect on choices they make as they set up and maintain their online identities, with strategies for particular behaviors that may support them at different stages of the development of their digital identities and help sustain their digital relationships. Presented by Maha Bali on Thursday, April 8, 2021, at 2 p.m. CT. Sponsored by the Atla Scholarly Communication Committee. Please note that this interactive session will be recorded.

About the speaker

Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences) and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound (an equity-focused, open, connected intercultural learning curriculum, which has also branched into academic community activities Continuity with Care and Socially Just Academia). She writes and speaks frequently about social justice, critical pedagogy, and open and online education. She blogs regularly at http://blog.mahabali.me and tweets @bali_maha.

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