Tech Task #1 Digital Identity

Digital Identity / Footprint

As a digital citizen I use many social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat. I use them to see what my friends are doing and to document some events/moments in my life.

When I googled myself there was only one website that matched me, the website is called HockeyDB and it has the one year I played hockey in the SIJHL in Thunder Bay documented. The other sites show some linkedin accounts and a twitter for some dude named Prophet Bryce Graham and he looks nothing like me.

My online identity is rather private and I would like to keep it that way. It is important to keep my digital footprint private especially as a teacher, as I don’t need to put some aspects of my personal life out on display for everyone to see especially the students. I protect my identity online by paying close attention to those who I follow, and monitor those who are following me to ensure that there is nothing inappropriate being posted on my pages/sites.

It is very important to address this is schools and teach this to our students because who they are online is a big part of who they really are. Students spend so much time on social media apps and texting on their phones, it is more important than ever to know how to leave a positive digital identity / footprint on the internet. I would teach kids to behave in a respectful and friendly way online and to report cyber bullying in our schools as I feel there is no place for that and those who feel the need to bully somebody from behind a keyboard should have to deal with the consequences of being a poor digital citizen and not using the technology properly.