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Digital Footprint Assignment

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1. How might your digital footprint affect your future opportunities? Give at least two examples.

Your digital footprint can determine your future opportunities based on what you view online. It can affect your future either positively or negatively. For example, if you post a picture of you and your friends doing drugs on the internet that could negatively affect you. But if you post pictures of you possibly helping others or such, that could positively affect you.

2. Describe at least three strategies that you can use to keep your digital footprint appropriate and safe.

3 strategies you can use are:

  1. Think before you post. Will it negatively affect my public image? is it safe? is it kind? is it appropriate?
  2. Have someone else take a look before you post and ask them for their thoughts.
  3. You can take a look at successful people and how they started their careers by keeping their footprint safe

3. If you could go back in time, is there anything you would do differently online? Think of what type of advice you would pass on to your younger self or other students. How could you go about explaining it to them?

One thing I would like to change is I don’t want to post photos of everything I own including pictures of my favourite candy. I would tell others as advice to think before they post, think specifically whether or not you would like it in the future when you look back on it.

Training Post

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You are now going to create your very first post. In a separate tab or browser window, go to your Dashboard on the left and go to  Posts -> Add New.

1) Title – Create a title for your blog post. Your title will be: Digital Footprint Assignment

2) Body – This is where you place your content of the post – text, videos, pictures, etc. Follow the instructions on the Digital Footprint Assignment page to see what questions you need to answer here.

3) Tool Bar – In your toolbar you can “Add Media” and “Add Documents” into your posts, this is the best way to create visual representations. You can also change fonts, hyperlink, etc.

4) Publish – Here is where you control what items are public and private. You can also control when they are published to your website.

5) Categories – Here is where you choose where you want your post to go. This is your digital binder with all of your subjects. Make sure to categorize each post with the relevant subject. E.g. Categories -> English

6) Tags –  Here is where you tag posts with one or two of the most readily applicable Core Competencies. These tags can help you find things quicker on your blog and help you stay organised. E.g. Tag -> creativethinking

7) Publish – When you are done, simply “Publish” it. If it has been edited, press “Republish” to update with the latest version of the content.