Digital Footprints

Your digital footprint is a "footprint" you leave online. I am unsure of how one could access a complete digital footprint, but I'm assuming a task like that can be done with all of the technological advances of today. As a pre-service teacher I do take caution in what appears and does not appear online about myself, with the internet making it easy for potential employers to "look you up", I mainly want to display the professional, driven teacher that I am. 

This leads into the next discussion about Digital Identity. Digital Identity is ones online identity. Even if I wasn't in the career of teaching I would still have this type of digital identity.With the career I have chosen, I completely understand why teachers are held to a higher standard than other careers. So again, I do watch what makes its way online these days.

Teaching students about digital footprints and digital identities is essential for them to learn about so we can produce knowledgeable digital citizens. They need to know how to use the internet in a safe, positive way and that whatever they put online can be traced back to them and in most cases, can not be removed from the internet.

I have recently followed an EduBlogger and she posted this on Jan. 30th...it is a good resource to have and I would definitely use it.

http://edutech4teachers.edublogs.org/category/infographic-of-the-week/