Digital Footprint
The content of this exercise is based on the website A Great Guide on Teaching Students About Digital Footprint
Create a Google doc called DigitalFootprint to use as a journal for this exercise.
Create a Google doc called DigitalFootprint to use as a journal for this exercise.
What is a digital footprint?
This definition is from the website A Great Guide on Teaching Students About Digital Footprint
A digital footprint is the collection of all the traces you leave in electronic environments as you use or move through them. Some is content you actively volunteer—like your Facebook profile. Other material is passive—the cookies a site stores in your browser, the content your district collects about your use of their equipment, etc. All this data can be aggregated to build a profile of you and your behavior
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If someone was to search for your online, what would they find?
Google yourself to find out.
Search any of the social media sites you belong to, what would they find?
What are your digital footprints?
Is there anything online that you wouldn't want your teacher, parent, or future employer to know about you ?
Are there other people that you know connected to your search?
Make sure you also check the Search Google Image result page.
Google yourself to find out.
Search any of the social media sites you belong to, what would they find?
What are your digital footprints?
Is there anything online that you wouldn't want your teacher, parent, or future employer to know about you ?
Are there other people that you know connected to your search?
Make sure you also check the Search Google Image result page.
Manage Your Digital Footprint
Again these points are copied from the website A Great Guide on Teaching Students About Digital Footprint
- Never post anything that you might find embarrassing later.
- Be careful with the pictures you post on your public profiles. Remember others will see them and judge you based on their content.
- Change the privacy settings on your social networking sites so that only your Friends can see your information
- Do not disclose your personal address, phone number, passwords. Bank card numbers...etc even in private messages. There is always the possibility of somebody hacking into your account and finding them.
- Do not post things to bully, hurt, blackmail, insult, or afflict any kind of harm on others
- Always keep in mind that once information has been posted online, it can be almost impossible to remove because of archiving and file sharing. Even though you deactivate your accounts, the information may still be retrieved by others.
How can your footprint be used?
So What can you do? THINK and be safe!
Your footprint is more that just Social Media
Yes, be careful with your social media presence, but just think about everything you do on a computer or smart device.
Using Google?
Track your Travels: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0
source: http://www.eyeopening.info/2015/02/13/google-maps-has-been-tracking-your-every-move/
Is this news to you? It was to me!
Can you erase this? If so how?
Can it be turned off?
Do other search engines have a similar feature?
source: http://www.eyeopening.info/2015/02/13/google-maps-has-been-tracking-your-every-move/
Is this news to you? It was to me!
Can you erase this? If so how?
Can it be turned off?
Do other search engines have a similar feature?
Reflection
Do you need to change how you use social media?
What can you do to build a positive digital footprint?
Are you the only person that can contribute to your digital footprint? Who else can? Explain.
Find an example of a positive outcome using social media?
Find an example of a negative outcome using social media?
What other questions do you need to ask yourself as you go forward using social media?
What actions should you take if you feel you are a victim of cyber bullying?
What do you think is left behind on the computers you use at school? at the Library? or other public locations?
How can public WI-FI access points effect your footprint?
Use canada411.ca to reverse look up your home phone? What do you find? Does it work on your cell phone number?
Are there other sources of a digital footprints that do not show up in Google?
Do other search engines find different results than Google?
What can you do to build a positive digital footprint?
Are you the only person that can contribute to your digital footprint? Who else can? Explain.
Find an example of a positive outcome using social media?
Find an example of a negative outcome using social media?
What other questions do you need to ask yourself as you go forward using social media?
What actions should you take if you feel you are a victim of cyber bullying?
What do you think is left behind on the computers you use at school? at the Library? or other public locations?
How can public WI-FI access points effect your footprint?
Use canada411.ca to reverse look up your home phone? What do you find? Does it work on your cell phone number?
Are there other sources of a digital footprints that do not show up in Google?
Do other search engines find different results than Google?