Digital Footprint Assignment

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

Everything that is in your digital footprint can affect your future, such as your job opportunities in the future. if your footprint contains irresponsible behavior it sets an example to your interviewer giving you a less likely chance to obtain the job. It can also affect personal relationships with family, friends, and peers.

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

  1. Keep your personal info of the internet.
  2. consider your audience and who could see it.
  3. use a  identity protection service to keep personal information safe.

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

There isn’t anything that I would do differently online. Some advise to a younger me would be keep a private account on socialmidia.

Training Post

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.