MyFootprintSD.org is an awesome site to help young people understand how online encounters may be harmful. This site would be great to show your students the do's and don'ts of interacting on the internet. On the site, teenagers share true stories and research about
- online bullying
- copyrights and intellectual property
- online cheating
- identity and credit card theft
- compromising photos
- tech addiction
- spyware and viruses
- online manners
You could also have your students create a similar site about their own online presence and activities. Click here to see what one teacher learned about her students' online behaviors after having them complete a project similar to MyFootprintSD.
MyFootprintSD looks terrific! I long ago learned that we need to teach things that you might think need not be said. In this article, we compiled a series of cautionary tales to teach students that anything you post or do on the Internet can potentially be traced to you - even the CIA failed to cover its tracks when posting on the Web!
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Great topic, however, please remember that a digital footprint is about what you say about yourself, what others say about you, what your data says about you, and what others data says about you. You can only control one aspect of this and you cannot delete the others. more here http://blog.mydigitalfootprint.com
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