Presentation related to the evolution of digital footprints and how to help student in learning about their own digital identity.

1. Digital Footprints and Students
Kurtis Hewson, University of Lethbridge

2. Where are we going?
• Examining the evolution
• Your professional digital footprint
• Digital footprints for students

5. http://education.alberta.ca/media/4970645/literacyfirst.pdf

7. Examining the Evolution
Footprint 1.0 – What is a digital
footprint?
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What I do can be accessed and followed?
Our online record
(photos, comments, posts, websites)
Footprint 2.0 – Don’t want a digital
footprint
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Never use your real name (pseudonym, online
“mask”)
Erase your online presence
Footprint 3.0 – Manage a digital
footprint
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Adding positive online content – taking control!
Establishing and contributing to a PLN

8. 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”

9. Your Professional Digital
Footprint

10. Establishing your Professional Footprint
• Establish professional accounts
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Set up a professional Twitter, Google +/YouTube, LinkedIn
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“Like” professional pages, follow ed hashtags, favorite
teacher videos
• Begin social bookmarking
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Diigo, Delicious and others – begin bookmarking valuable
sites
• Comment
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Share your supportive thoughts on blogs, videos, tweets
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Share links and resources
• Blog
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Essentially becomes your online home
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Share thoughts, activities, learning, artifacts

11. Next step for your professional
footprint

14. Posted by Denise Borck - http://schoollibrarydisplays.blogspot.ca/2013/11/digital-citizenship.html

15. http://www.maggiehosmcgrane.com/2012/08/the-golden-rules-ofdigital-citizenship.html

17. http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/digitalfootprints/

19. http://thetidyteacher.blogspot.ca/2012/11/digital-citizenship.html?m=1

25. http://kathycassidy.com/2013/11/19/using-blogs-and-twitter-withyoung-students-this-is-what-it-looks-like/

26. Interesting…
I’m already doing…

27. Kurtis Hewson
University of Lethbridge
Email – hewskp@uleth.ca
Twitter - @hewsonk27
http://kurtishewson.wordpress.c
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