Discover Your Digital Footprint!
Discover Your Digital Footprint!
Explain what do you think is your digital footprint?
Learning Objective
Be able to explain what a digital footprint is
Know what creates a digital footprint
Identify the positive and negative outcomes from a digital footprint
What Is a Digital Footprint?
A digital footprint is everything you leave behind online, like social media activity including profiles, posts, photos, or messages and replies, blogs, web searches, browsing history, .
Category 1
Category 2
Write down all the negative things about having a digital footprint
How Do You Leave a Digital Footprint?
You leave a digital footprint when you use the internet, post pictures, write messages, or watch videos.
Activities That Create Footprints
Writing messages, liking posts, sharing photos, and searching online all add to your digital footprint.
Footprints: Good and Bad
Sharing too much, getting unwanted messages, or people seeing things you did not want to share.
Making friends online, learning new things, and showing your talents.
Good Effects
Bad Effects
Positive Implications
Helps create a positive image of you for others to see, including employers.
Widens your social profile by promoting you.
Shows other people your skills and learn about you in a good way.
Positive Implications
Murlough Athletics club!
Running for charity and for fitness
Positive Implications
Joe Wicks gave free exercise programmes for kids online during covid. This improved his social media profile hugely!
Positive Implications
Nathans Lawns and Gardens does peoples gardens for free!
Negative Implications
Reduces your privacy
Reduces information security
Can impact on your personal safety by over sharing personal information
Negative online activities and social media profiles can be seen by a wide audience, including employers
Negative Implications
Negative Implications
You can become vulnerable by oversharing and potentially falling victim to phishing or cat fishing or black mail.
Negative Implications
Be Smart Online!
Think before you share. Only post things you are happy for others to see.
Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.
Write down 2 things you want to know more about.
Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.