INTERNET & WEB

2.0 TOOLS
FRIDAY 29TH JANUARY 2016.
STE. MADELEINE SECONDARY
SCHOOL

DONE BY: Salma V. Hosein

Are you ready to find out about your

online identity.
yourself and
see what comes up!

Time (3 minutes)

D I G I TA L F O O T P R I N T

TODAYS OBJECTIVES
Discuss the term digital footprint.
Compare two (2) scenarios of digital footprints.
Select at least two (2) categories of information that is appropriate
and can be posted online.
Manage the size of your digital footprint that will allow you to be
safe.

VOCABULARY
Key Vocabulary terms. What you think
these terms means?
Trail:
A: A path or track
Permanent:
A: There forever

ACTIVITY 1

Q: What is the size of your digital footprint?

Now choose a person to Google from the options
provided
(Brian Lara, Machel Montano , Mark Zuckerberg,
Jennifer Lopez).
List any two (2) things you found out about them ?

You will be required to present your findings in the

form of a song in any style (soca, dub, rap etc).

Meet Your Suspects

ACTIVITY 2 Animal Tracks

Follow the Digital Trail Game

Instructions:

Time (15 minutes)

In your groups you all are detectives each person should find a clue and
record it exactly as you see it either writing or you can use your device
and take pictures of your clues. Clues are identified by footprints posted
around the classroom. Return the clues exactly as you found them. You
should do this as quickly as possible. You have until the music stops to get
clues. At the end of 5 minutes all groups should get all the clues. (Hint:
each has 5 clues).
Follow the trails of Mizzle & Electra where you are moving to the music of
your character.
Each person in the group must go to a different location for a clue. In your
groups each of you will be following Mizzle and Electra. Each person holds
a piece of the puzzle. Each clue will have an M for Mizzle & E for Electra.
When you have gotten all the clues, work together and complete Activity 2
Animal tracks sheet.
You have exactly 15 mins to solves the mystery and answer all the
questions.

Clues of Mizzle & Electra

ACTIVITY 2 Answers Animal Tracks

Follow the Digital Trail

1 mk

ACTIVITY 2 Answers Animal Tracks

Questions
1. Who can you find out more about, and why? (2 mks)
A: Electra, because we now know where Electra lives, what she looks
like, and
private and personal information about her life.
2. Which animal has a bigger digital footprint and why? (2
mks)
A: Electra, because she put more private and personal information
online than
Mizzle.
Note: having a bigger digital footprint mean the detectives can learn
more about them too

ACTIVITY 2 Answers Animal Tracks

Questions

Continued

3. Mizzle says some funny things about himself on the Internet.

What are they? (3 mks)
A: He says he likes Swiss cheese, his photo is of cheese, and he has a
pet flea.
4. Is there anything that Electra posted on the Internet that could
become a problem for her? If so, what and why? (3 mks)
A: Private and personal information (e.g., address, full name,
password)
allows others to learn more about her. This could be unsafe. Saying that
she
fights with her brother could hurt her brothers feelings because it is
public.

ACTIVITY 3 Table

Complete the table below

Time (3

minutes)

Chose which options goes into which columns that summarize which
information is okay to share online and what is not okay. Write the
numbers ONLY in the columns.

Okay to Share

NOT Okay to Share

ACTIVITY 3 Table Answers

Okay to Share

NOT Okay to Share

ACTIVITY 4 Multiple Choice Q & A

Time (3 minutes)
1.What is a digital footprint?
a) A track that animals leave behind
b)Shoes that you buy on the Internet
c)The information about you on the Internet

Answer feedback

C. Your digital footprint is the information about you online, such as a news story with your name in it
or something that you write online.

ACTIVITY 4 Multiple Choice Q & A

2.What kind of information is safe to share online?

a) Your birth date

b) Your first name or computer username
c)Your address

Answer feedback

B. It is okay to share your first name or your username online. But sharing your address or birth date could
make your information unsafe because other people might use your information to pretend to be you!

ACTIVITY 4 Multiple Choice Q & A

3. Which animal below has the digital footprint that leaves him or her most

unsafe?
HINT: Think about which animal shares the most private information online.
a) Fran the Fish
b) Betty the Bird
c) Tony the Tiger
Answer feedback

C. Tony the Tiger put private information online, like his address, which is
not safe. Fran and Betty

shared information, but they did not share

anything private about themselves.

Things to think about!!!