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.

1. What’s in Your Digital
Dossier?
FlipFlop PD
June 12, 2012
Stephanie Dixon, EBRPSS

2. Stephanie Dixon
sdixon@ebrschools.org
Twitter: @dont96
Instepoutsidebox.blogspot.com

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.
-
Webopedia.com

6. Video
“Digital Dossier”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA

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?

13. Google Yourself

14. What did you find?
 Set a Google Alert

15. Why are digital footprints
important?

17. http://bcove.me/o27sbx29

18. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-09-
21/facebook-google-college-applicants/50497248/1

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

25. Will Richardson
 Speaker
 Presenter
 Blogger
 Writer

26. Digital Branding
Twitter
Blog
Ning
You
Wiki LinkedIn

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

28. Sample Student Activities and
Resources

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/

33. Activity: What’s Private?
 http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/digitalcitizenship/l
essons/2-3/whats_private/

34. Curriculum Resources
 CyberSmart - http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/
 Common Sense Media-
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/cu
rriculum

35. Wrap Up
Q&A

36. Video Resources
 http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ikeeps
afe/Project-Pro/Project%20PRO-
%20Students.mov
 http://vimeo.com/6709512
 http://myfootprintsd.com/intromovie.html
 http://www.commoncraft.com/video/protecting-
reputations-online

37. Web Resources
 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_tool_
calculates_your_digital_footprint.php
 http://www.pcworld.com/article/195270/erasing_y
our_digital_tracks_on_the_web.html
 http://www.pcworld.com/article/168865/beware_of
_privacypolicy_loopholes.html
 http://www.pcworld.com/article/151556/9_sites_th
at_find_people_and_their_sensitive_information.h
tml

38. Web Resources
 http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ikeeps
afe/Project-Pro/Digital%20Reputation-
Privacy%20and%20Reputation%20Online%20Re
sourcse%20for%20Educators.pdf
 http://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/protect/protect-your-
computer/erase-your-digital-path/
 http://learningischange.com/blog/2009/05/20/digit
al-legacy-lesson-plans/

39. Web Resources
 http://myfootprintsd.com/index.html
 http://youthandmedia.org/wiki/Portal:Digital_Priva
cy
 http://inventorspot.com/articles/qualmans_social_
media_revolution_refresh_updates_stats_2010_4
1721
 http://teenlearning.csla.net/

40. Thank You!
sdixon@ebrschools.org