Digital+Footprints

toc ** BOCES 1 Presentation Resources ** = = =My Footprint Tools=
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 * GoogleSite //(new & in progress)//
 * Personal Domain //(new & in progress)//
 * Twitter: @ransomtech
 * Blog: EdTechTrek
 * Delicious: [|ransomtech] (tag: [|digitalfootprint] )
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 * E-mail: ransomtechgmail.com

=Web Resources Used:= //(////See// //or// //subscribe to// //my Delicious bookmarks tagged "digitalfootprint" for more and new online resources as they are found.)// =Online Reputation Management=
 * [| Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency] //(PEW report)//
 * [|Teens, Privacy, and Online Social Networks: How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace] //(PEW Report)//
 * [|CREATING & CONNECTING//Research and Guidelines on Online Social and Educational Networking] //(PDF - NSBA)//
 * [|Students Competing For Slots At Elite Colleges Resorting To "Facebook Sabotage"]
 * [|12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally]
 * [|Keeping Your Facebook Profile Professional]
 * [|Footprints in the Digital Age] //(Will Richardson, Educause)//
 * [|You need to be "clickable". Are you preparing your students to be Googled?] //(Will Richardson, District Administration)//
 * [|Managing Your Digital Footprint] //(Adobe)//
 * Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet //(lesson idea)//
 * [|The Less You Share, the Less Power You Have] //(Will Richardson, Blog post)//
 * [|Being Clickable] //(student blog post)//
 * [|Colleges scan Facebook during admissions: New study suggests colleges are looking at social-networking sites before accepting students] //(Eschoolnews)//
 * [|Who is Looking for You Online]?
 * [|Beware - Your Digital Footprint is Your Resume]
 * [|Web 2.0 dominates Trends in Internet Job-Hunting]
 * [|Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion] //(Jan. 2008)//
 * [|Companies Check Out Applicants On Facebook] //(NPR audio)//
 * Profile Peeking
 * Teachers Under Fire for Internet Use //(The Apple)//
 * Urban Dictionary: Facebook Fired
 * Confessions of a Principal - #14
 * [|Is Your Identity Worth $10 a Year?]
 * [|Graduating Class of 2008]
 * [|The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them]
 * [|Negotiating the Social Networking Minefield]
 * [|College Students in Trouble at School]
 * [|'Drunken Pirate' Learns Costly Lesson From Her MySpace Posting]
 * [|Employers use 'internet reputations' to make decisions about job applicants]
 * [|DOOCE] //(case of employee firing)//
 * Caught (unfortunately) on Tape //(The Chronicle of Higher Education)//
 * [|CMS Employee Fired Over Facebook Posting]
 * [|Eight Secrets of Effective Online Networking]
 * [|Want a Job? Clean Up Your Web Act] //(CNET news)//
 * [|Facebook: Employers screen applicants' accounts]
 * [|How to Avoid Getting Fired by Facebook]
 * How to Manage Your Reputation On Line
 * What You Say Online Could Haunt You //(USA Today)//
 * [|Facebook, MySpace may get you fired]
 * [|Employee Fired for Facebook Comment]
 * Teen Fired for Calling Job Boring on Facebook
 * [|Bank intern busted by FaceBook]
 * Teacher Resigns over mystery inappropriate, private Facebook content.
 * [|Twitter Gets You Fired in 140 Characters or Less] //(MSNBC)//
 * Idiot Loses Job Over Tweet
 * [|Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo...]
 * Be careful what you put on facebook //(with video)//
 * [|Your Personal Online Brand - It Begins with your Facebook Profile]
 * [|College Applicants, Beware: Your Facebook Page is Showing] //(Wall Street Journal)//
 * [|At Top Schools, One in Ten College Admissions Officers Visits Applicants’ Social Network Sites] //(Kaplan Survey, 2008)//
 * [|Beware of Friends Online]//(YouTube video)//
 * [|New Study: Stranger Danger is not the Risk but FRIENDLY FIENDs are] //(Blog post: Vicki Davis)//
 * [|Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security]
 * [|Workers Fired over Internet Postings]
 * [|Blogger's Firing Raises Questions Aplenty]
 * [|Teachers Warned About MySpace Profiles] //(Eschoolnews)//
 * [|Phony Facebook pages teach students a lesson] (//Eschoolnews)//
 * [|Students post schoolyard-brawl videos online] (//Eschoolnews)//
 * [|Sex and Tech]:
 * [|Former Pembroke Pines student sues principal over Facebook suspension]
 * [|Are You Leaving a Digital Trail; What About Privacy?] //(Eschoolnews)//
 * Why Give Up Privacy? Because Everyone Else is Doing it.
 * [|Online Reputation Management as Seen From the Outside] //(includes video)//
 * Keep Your E-Image Clean //(Monster)//
 * How to Manage your Online Life...When You're Dead //(Time)//
 * 10 Ways to Stay Out of Trouble When You Post to Social Networking Sites
 * Social networking 101: Facebook and your digital reputation
 * [|Should your boss be your Facebook friend?]
 * Social Networking Plays a Large Role in College Admissions
 * Digital Data Make for a Really Permanent Record (NPR)
 * Building a Digital Footprint that You can be Proud of
 * Open Thinking Wiki
 * Digital Footprint - Your Online Data Trail //(blog post)//
 * Digital Footprints - Digital Dossier //(blog post)//
 * Fear of Googled Past //(blog post)//
 * Teachers Under Fire for Internet Use //(TheApple)//
 * Toronto Conference to Focus on Facebook Risks
 * Profile Peeking
 * [|Attentio]
 * [|Trackur]
 * [|Buzzcapture]
 * [|Brandwatch]
 * [|Distilled Reputation Monitor]
 * [|SERM International]
 * Reputation Defender Blog
 * How to Manage Your Reputation On Line //(NY Times)//
 * Your Online Life is Your Reputation: Dos, Don'ts and Tips //(LaVerne College of Law)//
 * Keep Your E-Image Clean (Monster)
 * How to Manage your Online Life...When You're Dead //(Time)//
 * Facebook Privacy: a guide
 * Google Alerts //(Be alerted when your name appears online)//

=Examples of Kids' Positive Digital Footprints= //The list could be endless here... so here are just a few to consider.//
 * [|Childnet Academy]
 * [|Media That Matters Film Festival] //(example: a girl like me)//
 * [|25 Days to Make a Difference] //(Blog of Laura Stockman)//
 * [|YouthVoices.net] //(search for projects)//
 * [|ReflectiveVoices] //(student blogs)//
 * [|A School of Voices]

=Tools for Creating Digital Footprints= >>
 * [|Zinch] //("Zinch has opened the door of online interaction to college admissions")//
 * [|Youth Voices]
 * Global Nomads
 * Taking It Global
 * [|MySpace]
 * [|Facebook]
 * [|LinkedIn]
 * [|Ning]
 * The Global Education Collaborative
 * Working Together to Make a Difference (Laura Stockman )
 * A wiki of Nings in Education
 * __[|Mr. Bickel’s English Classes]__ //(A classroom teacher’s use of Ning)//
 *  A Google spreadsheet of Nings for Education
 *  [|A teacher’s blog post about using Ning in her classroom]
 * [|GoogleDocs/Google Sites]
 * [|SlideShare]
 * [|VoiceThread]

=Interactive Online Activities= =**Domain Name Services**=
 * Smokescreen //(a highly interactive// //game about life online, on a new social network called White Smoke.)//
 * Personas //(an online presence characterization tool... not scientific, but interesting nonetheless)//
 * [|GoDaddy]
 * [|Register.com]
 * [|MyDomain.com]
 * [|Yahoo! Domains]
 * There are many, many more...