My Digital Footprint

This week our readings, videos, and weekly meeting on Zoom were about online citizenship. I had not given this concept much thought, I use the Internet every single day for social media, school work, and leisure, yet, I had never given thought to my presence online. I mean my morals I believe are in a good place and I do not post things that may be perceived in a bad manner but I still never thought about it. I see some people on my Facebook feeds posting inappropriate content on the regular and often ignore or even delete those people from the application.

Photo by Rochel Maday

After listening to our guest speaker Jesse miller and the conversation that took place after the keystone I had to reevaluate my thoughts on my digital footprint and my online citizenship. Are the things I share or the photos I post or are in are something I want for everyone to see? The short answer is no. After watching Jesse Miller’s TEDTalk I started to realize the power I had by using the internet and social media, the power I had over my own identity, how do I portray myself on the internet. After class, I went to all of my social media accounts and deleted photos I did not want future employers and students to see and I changed my privacy settings. The video and discussion really changed my perspective of my online citizenship and my digital footprint that I was leaving.

Trello

This week we were also introduced to Trello. This application allows us to create boards and lists to keep track of our blogs as well as our free and guided inquiry projects. The Trello board allows you to grab and move pins from one list to another, for example I moved this week’s blog posts from the “To Do” list to the “Completed” list, I can then create a Week 4 Blogs pin and place that in the “To Do” list for this upcoming weeks tasks.

Photo From: Trello – My Trello Board

I quite like the layout and this application also allows for Rich to view what we have to do and what we have completed, this is a nice feature because he can hold us accountable to the tasks we have set for ourselves.