2. Where are we going?
• Examining the evolution
• Cleaning up your footprint
• Establishing your professional
footprint
• Establishing a PLN
3. Examining the Evolution
Footprint 1.0 – What is a digital footprint?
• What I do can be accessed and followed?
• Our online record (photos, comments, posts, websites)
Footprint 2.0 – Don’t want a digital footprint
• Never use your real name (pseudonym, online “mask”)
• Erase your online presence
Footprint 3.0 – Manage a digital footprint
• Adding positive online content – taking control!
• Establishing and contributing to a PLN
4. Cleaning Up Your Footprint
• Google yourself
• Regularly check yourself on Google – be aware of what’s there
• Check on a computer other than yours
• Investigate Google Alerts – lets you know hen your name appears
• Check Privacy Settings
• Investigate privacy settings on Facebook, Twitter, other social media
• Remove undesirable content
• Untag yourself from photos
• Delete questionable comments and posts
• Utilize the “Grandma rule”
5. Cleaning Up Your Footprint
• Google yourself
• Regularly check yourself on Google – be aware of what’s there
• Check on a computer other than yours
• Investigate Google Alerts – lets you know hen your name appears
• Check Privacy Settings
• Investigate privacy settings on Facebook, Twitter, other social media
• Remove undesirable content
• Untag yourself from photos
• Delete questionable comments and posts
• Utilize the “Grandma rule”
7. Establishing your Professional Footprint
• Establish professional accounts
• Set up a professional Twitter, Facebook, Google +/YouTube, LinkedIn
• “Like” professional pages, follow ed hashtags, favorite teacher videos
• Begin social bookmarking
• Diigo, Delicious and others – begin bookmarking valuable sites
• Comment
• Share your supportive thoughts on blogs, videos, tweets
• Share links and resources
• Blog
• Essentially becomes your online portfolio
• Share thoughts, activities to build your teacher identity
8. More Than Getting That First Job…
• Traditionally limited
by geography and
not often timely
• Today, transcends
distance, role and
expertise
Professional Learning Network (PLN) -
Not a new concept
9. Why Start Now?
• Supplement (or in
some cases supplant)
induction supports
• Begin building your
professional “brand”
• Establish a strong network of professionals and
supports prior to entering your first classroom