Digital Footprint Assignment

Course component: Digital Footprint Assignment—20%

Description: This assignment will allow you to reflect on your presence online and utilize
your Digital Citizenship learning to create positive a Digital Footprint
With this assignment, we want you to learn to share with your peers how you will be
able to responsibly maintain a positive Digital Footprint

Title of your post: My Digital Footprint

Categories: ADL (in Grade 9) and Digital Literacy
Tags: #ADL, #footprint, #lmunro

Create and post a summary that shares how your digital footprint may impact you.

Instructions

1) Watch the following video about managing your digital footprint. This video is 3
minutes in length.

Video: “Your Digital Footprint May Be Unflattering”

found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8C1a2z_cuQ

2) Google yourself. (Try putting your name in quotation marks. Add your city if you
want to narrow it down.) Are you surprised by anything?

3) Reflect on your own digital footprint in a few paragraphs.

Try to picture how your footprint comes across to others.

Describe something in your existing digital footprint that is an example of one of the
“5 C s” of a positive digital footprint

o Contributes to the on-line community.

o Control of identity.
o Cautious sharing of information
o Constructive commenting
o Curated on-line presence

How might your existing digital footprint affect your future opportunities listed
below? (Describe at least two)

 future education
 post-secondary school applications
 job and career prospects.
 family and friends

Adapted with thanks from an assignment created by Mr. P. Aitken and Mr. R. Prensky HWSS
4) Answer the questions below, and then share your answers on your Edublogs account
in the form of a video, poster/infographic, storyboard or magazine article (combining
pictures and words) and tag it #footprint.

Questions

Describe at least three strategies that you can use to keep your digital footprint
appropriate and safe.

What information did you learn that you would pass on to other students? How would
you go about telling them?

Deliverables
Ensure that your response effectively addresses the goals provided above and answers
all of the questions listed in the instructions. You have the option of doing the response
in one of the formats listed below:

 Video Response (1 - 1½ minutes in length)

 Poster/Infographic/Website/Storyboard (including both text and graphics)
 Article (minimum six pictures, including both text and graphics)

Your response is due by Feb 1 and must be uploaded to your Edublogs account. We
expect that the tone of this assignment will be considerate and respectful, and use
language that is inclusive, appropriate, and appealing to the Centennial community.
Your response will be reviewed and if there are concerns or questions with your
response you may be contacted by one of our ADL teachers. If there is any evidence of
plagiarism our academic honesty policy applies. In addition, your response will be
considered incomplete and you will have to redo your assignment.

Feedback will come in the form of an email and a comment on your blog that will use
the rubric link below:

Digital Footprint Rubric

Adapted with thanks from an assignment created by Mr. P. Aitken and Mr. R. Prensky HWSS