This document provides an overview of digital footprints and how to manage your online privacy. It defines a digital footprint as the collection of information people leave online through activities like social media use, comments, photos and purchases. The presentation discusses how to discover your own digital trail, clean up your online presence by removing unused accounts and content, and conduct privacy audits. It also offers tips for building a positive digital identity through blogs, profiles and online content creation. Sample student activities are provided to help teach these digital citizenship concepts.
3. Agenda
What is a digital footprint?
Discovering your digital trail
Cleaning Up Your Digital Trail
Sites for Privacy Audit
Student Activities and Resources
Q&A
4. What’s a Digital
Dossier?
Digital + Dossier
Online/Web Collection of
sources or
records
containing
detailed
information about
a particular
person or subject
5. Digital Footprint
On the Internet, a digital footprint is the word
used to describe the trail, traces or "footprints"
that people leave online. This is information
transmitted online, such as forum registration, e-
mails and attachments, uploading videos or
digital images and any other form of transmission
of information — all of which leaves traces of
personal information about yourself available to
others online.
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Webopedia.com
8. Your Digital Footprint
Comments
Profiles Content you
Websites publish
Photos
videos
Keystrokes
Purchases Data you Content Comment
Searches leave others s
Clicks about publish Photos
Likes yourself about you Videos
Friend-ing
Following
Downloads
9. Ambient Content (Digital
Shadow)
surveillance camera images
bank records
retail and airline purchase records
telephone records
medical database entries
copies of hospital scans
web searches
information about credit card purchases
10. Web Activity: Your Digital
Footprint
Don’t think you are tracked digitally
because you are not online
frequently?
Think again…
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/koppel/inter
active/interactive.html
11. Activity:
Create a Map of Your Digital Trail
Social
networkin
g
Online Shoppin
Accounts My g
Digital
Map
What does Online
Communitie
your web s
presence say
about you?
22. Cleaning up Your Digital
Identity
Keep track of Internet sites and profiles you
have created
Remove profiles you no longer use
Use Google Dashboard to manage your
information on Google sites that you use
Erase offensive tweets
Conduct a privacy audit/background check
InPrivate Filtering-
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-
vista/InPrivate-frequently-asked-questions
23. Sites for Privacy Audits
Whitepages.com
BeenVerified.com
PublicRecords.com
Google Alert
Way Back Machine
Spezify
Keep in mind that there are fees
applied to detailed records and
background checks
24. Build a Positive Online
Presence
Produce positive content:
Wikis
Online Portfolios
Twitter
FaceBook
Google Docs
Blogs
LinkedIn
Create a good digital
branding- personally and
professionally
27. Your Online Presence… Getting
Started
Email
Subscribe to blogs
Comment on blogs
Create your own blog
Contribute information in an online community
Create a professional Twitter account
29. Activity: Creating an Online
Portfolio
http://www.21things4students.net/digital-footprint-
--creating-one.html
30. Activity: Way Back Machine
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-
wCEskkJ7UQ02we07of2gI_EHpDCSG0JlzPl01C
54R4/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
31. Activity: Trillion Dollar
Footprint
http://www.bedford.k12.va.us/internet_safety/com
mon_sense_media/Privacy_and_Digital_Footprint
s_Unit/Trillion_Dollar_Footprint/TDF_LessonPlan.
pdf
32. Activity: Your Online Image
http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/digitalcitizenship/l
essons/9-12/your_online_image/