Comments on: Identity, Avatars, and Future of Humanity http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/ A space to (1) reflect on my teaching, (2) share new ideas, sites, and Web 2.0 tools with current staff, and (3) network with other 21st century teachers Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:47:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: cu08 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/comment-page-1/#comment-300 cu08 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:57:29 +0000 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/?p=72#comment-300 I have taken the 'plunge' recently. I am nervous but the words you shared here are telling me I am doing the right thing! Thanks for twittering your post. Christine. I have taken the ‘plunge’ recently. I am nervous but the words you shared here are telling me I am doing the right thing! Thanks for twittering your post. Christine.

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]]> By: Intrepidteacher http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Intrepidteacher Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:08:19 +0000 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/?p=72#comment-240 @Ken Allen you said “the true self sits beneath the changes that become apparent in what is seen as the non-self” and I totally agree, but till we can realize that and come to terms with it, the ego struggles to tell us otherwise. The true self, is the selfless consciousness, which we all share, everything else is just a series of masks. @Ken Allen you said “the true self sits beneath the changes that become apparent in what is seen as the non-self” and I totally agree, but till we can realize that and come to terms with it, the ego struggles to tell us otherwise.

The true self, is the selfless consciousness, which we all share, everything else is just a series of masks.

]]> By: Ken Allan http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Ken Allan Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:28:59 +0000 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/?p=72#comment-239 Kia ora Jabiz. Is it the true self that "is always changing"? I understood that the true self was what exists before thinking, opinions, and beliefs arise - that the true self sits beneath the changes that become apparent in what is seen as the non-self. Or have I got the wrong end of the staff here? Please explain, for I'm a hobbit of very little brain and my head hurts :-) . Ka kite from Middle-earth Kia ora Jabiz.

Is it the true self that “is always changing”?

I understood that the true self was what exists before thinking, opinions, and beliefs arise – that the true self sits beneath the changes that become apparent in what is seen as the non-self.

Or have I got the wrong end of the staff here? Please explain, for I’m a hobbit of very little brain and my head hurts :-) .

Ka kite
from Middle-earth

]]> By: Vicki Davis http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/comment-page-1/#comment-238 Vicki Davis Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:47:31 +0000 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/?p=72#comment-238 I enjoyed this post a lot. Of course, some of us stop changing our pics when we get close to 40 or gain a lot of weight - something I've done both of this year!! Sometimes we want to remember who we were! ;-) I enjoyed this post a lot. Of course, some of us stop changing our pics when we get close to 40 or gain a lot of weight – something I’ve done both of this year!! Sometimes we want to remember who we were! ;-)

]]> By: Lee Kolbert http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Lee Kolbert Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:39:46 +0000 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/?p=72#comment-237 Jabiz, Very thoughtful post. I enjoyed reading it and you definitely made me think. I know when I first began using online social networks, my avatar was a cartoon. I really liked that cartoon but then I changed it when someone (who clearly must have been much smarter and powerful than I) mentioned his dislike for 'toon 'tars. He said he felt people were hiding behind them. Why did I give that person so much credit? I don't know, but I do think it has to do with how we try to project ourselves. I know I wanted my projection to be accurate and I wasn't hiding and far be it from me to give up an opportunity to be insecure! (BTW: I can't even remember who the guy was.) It's nearly impossible to project yourself accurately online. The people in your network each know you in different ways, some more personally than others. Every message you send or photo you share, is interpreted differently based on the receiver's prior knowledge of you. I think avatars are like clothing. You wear what you want when the mood strikes you or the occasion calls for something special. I change my picture every now and then mostly because I can't stand looking at it anymore. I'm not sure anyone's profile picture really affects their place in their online community unless it's offensive or outlandish. I have to go change my Twitter photo now. :) ~Lee Jabiz,
Very thoughtful post. I enjoyed reading it and you definitely made me think. I know when I first began using online social networks, my avatar was a cartoon. I really liked that cartoon but then I changed it when someone (who clearly must have been much smarter and powerful than I) mentioned his dislike for ‘toon ‘tars. He said he felt people were hiding behind them. Why did I give that person so much credit? I don’t know, but I do think it has to do with how we try to project ourselves. I know I wanted my projection to be accurate and I wasn’t hiding and far be it from me to give up an opportunity to be insecure!
(BTW: I can’t even remember who the guy was.)

It’s nearly impossible to project yourself accurately online. The people in your network each know you in different ways, some more personally than others. Every message you send or photo you share, is interpreted differently based on the receiver’s prior knowledge of you. I think avatars are like clothing. You wear what you want when the mood strikes you or the occasion calls for something special. I change my picture every now and then mostly because I can’t stand looking at it anymore.

I’m not sure anyone’s profile picture really affects their place in their online community unless it’s offensive or outlandish.

I have to go change my Twitter photo now. :)

~Lee

]]> By: Liz Davis http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Liz Davis Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:28:18 +0000 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/?p=72#comment-236 Great post! I struggle with the picture issue. I want people to remember me and I'm afraid they won't if I look differently. But at the same time, I am not happy about how I look in some of my pictures. And yes, this is a bit of vanity, but isn't all of this Online networking stuff connected in part to our own desire to be known. Our picture is a key element to our known-ness. I love also love your Twitter retrospective. @Javabeanboy - what a great idea - to link to the past me. Could we include baby pics of ourselves? Awkward adolescent photos - OK maybe not. I am such a visual person, I remember faces much better than names. When people change their pics it does kind of throw me off. Maybe that isn't always a bad thing. Sorry if I've rambled, it is late. -Liz Great post! I struggle with the picture issue. I want people to remember me and I’m afraid they won’t if I look differently. But at the same time, I am not happy about how I look in some of my pictures. And yes, this is a bit of vanity, but isn’t all of this Online networking stuff connected in part to our own desire to be known. Our picture is a key element to our known-ness.

I love also love your Twitter retrospective. @Javabeanboy – what a great idea – to link to the past me. Could we include baby pics of ourselves? Awkward adolescent photos – OK maybe not.

I am such a visual person, I remember faces much better than names. When people change their pics it does kind of throw me off. Maybe that isn’t always a bad thing.

Sorry if I’ve rambled, it is late.
-Liz

]]> By: javabeanboy http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/identity/comment-page-1/#comment-235 javabeanboy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:54:22 +0000 http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/?p=72#comment-235 I like the retrospective of your twitter photos. I could see that becoming more of a standard form of self disclosure. On the sidebar underneath "about me" would be "past me". This is like how a wiki history page provides the changes that produced the present manifestation of that page. And while it's not the most perfect contraction, having access to that prior discourse gives validity to the final... err current product. I like the retrospective of your twitter photos. I could see that becoming more of a standard form of self disclosure. On the sidebar underneath “about me” would be “past me”. This is like how a wiki history page provides the changes that produced the present manifestation of that page. And while it’s not the most perfect contraction, having access to that prior discourse gives validity to the final… err current product.

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