Reflect on your own digital footprint. What search results are returned if your name is Googled? How can you make your footprint positive (as opposed to neutral or nonexistent)? What role can we play in making sure our students have a positive footprint?
I don't have much of a digital footprint. When I google my name, I get the generic web search site, that gives the following information: name, immediate family, age, and cities/state of which I reside. I think one way to have more of a positive footprint would be to blog more to share my ideas and insights professionally. I think our students can be encouraged to develop a positive footprint by being mindful of what they post, and we need to make sure we guide them through the process when they first get started creating a digital footprint. It is vital that we teach them that once something is on the Internet, it is likely there forever, able to be searched. The most important thing we can teach students is to be a great digital citizen.
You've done a great job of blogging throughout the course. Thank you for all of your hard work. I hope that you have found the course to be beneficial for you and that you have gleaned some tools and ideas to use in your own professional practice.
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