Digital Citizenship Activity
Google Alerts: Sign up for Google Alerts for keywords of interest to you (e.g., your name), and you will receive an alert message from Google every time your name appears on the web. You can set these alerts daily, weekly, or monthly. I recommend weekly.
Lecture:
The things we do that end up online can have a positive or negative influence on how the world sees us. It can stop us from getting jobs, or vice versa. It can inspire people to vote for us, or not. I know many people who google a person before dating them, and judge them based on the public sections of their facebook, twitter, myspace, or google+ account. “That person likes this movie!? They must be bad dating material.” Or cops who were fired for political opinions they expressed on facebook, or politicians who lose votes because they don’t have enough information about them online so no one thinks they are a real candidate that has a chance to win. Authors who can’t sell books because no one knows about the books, and companies who forget to make a facebook page or webpage and lose online business. There are lots of missed opportunities and confusion caused by what happens when someone searches for you or your future business online.There are even companies like Reputation.com that are paid to fix these problems.
http://veronicawebster.weebly.com/unit-1-edmodo.html
1. Watch the first Digital Citizenship Video.
2. Read this article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/10/31/349241774/doppelnamers-when-your-digital-identity-is-also-someone-elses
3. Search your name on google. Post how many results there were in Edmodo:
4. Think of a job you might be interested in having in the future. Will your reputation online matter for that job? Why?
Template (copy and paste into Edmodo):
My name brought up ______________hits.
I think the success of the job of ___________________ will or will not depend on online reputation because _____________________.
Extra:
Google Alerts: Sign up for Google Alerts for keywords of interest to you (e.g., your name), and you will receive an alert message from Google every time your name appears on the web. You can set these alerts daily, weekly, or monthly. I recommend weekly.
Lecture:
The things we do that end up online can have a positive or negative influence on how the world sees us. It can stop us from getting jobs, or vice versa. It can inspire people to vote for us, or not. I know many people who google a person before dating them, and judge them based on the public sections of their facebook, twitter, myspace, or google+ account. “That person likes this movie!? They must be bad dating material.” Or cops who were fired for political opinions they expressed on facebook, or politicians who lose votes because they don’t have enough information about them online so no one thinks they are a real candidate that has a chance to win. Authors who can’t sell books because no one knows about the books, and companies who forget to make a facebook page or webpage and lose online business. There are lots of missed opportunities and confusion caused by what happens when someone searches for you or your future business online.There are even companies like Reputation.com that are paid to fix these problems.
http://veronicawebster.weebly.com/unit-1-edmodo.html
1. Watch the first Digital Citizenship Video.
2. Read this article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/10/31/349241774/doppelnamers-when-your-digital-identity-is-also-someone-elses
3. Search your name on google. Post how many results there were in Edmodo:
4. Think of a job you might be interested in having in the future. Will your reputation online matter for that job? Why?
Template (copy and paste into Edmodo):
My name brought up ______________hits.
I think the success of the job of ___________________ will or will not depend on online reputation because _____________________.
Extra:
Google Alerts: Sign up for Google Alerts for keywords of interest to you (e.g., your name), and you will receive an alert message from Google every time your name appears on the web. You can set these alerts daily, weekly, or monthly. I recommend weekly.