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What is your digital footprint? Your digital footprint is all of the tracks that you leave behind on the internet. Every time you visit a website you leave a mark showing what you did there. Some of these marks you actively volunteer to leave - like your social media sites. Other marks are passively left - like the cookies a site stores in your browser. You as a teacher need to be able to demonstrate how to properly use electrical environments online. Because all of these little marks left behind can be collected to build an electronic profile of you based on your use of the internet.

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There are several search engines out on the web, but not all of them are good search engines to use. Google is one of the most popular and best search engine available to users. There are serval strategies that a searcher can use to narrow their search results and better the use of the search engines - these strategies are outlined in a the Basic Search Strategies video provided. While google is a great site to use there are more student appropriate sites, such as the those outlined below.

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Site Name - URL - Target User - Benefit to Using the Site

Cyber Sleuth - cybersleuth-kids.com - Kids - Interactive

Kids Click - kidsclick.org - Kids - Very user friendly

TEK MOM - tekmom.com - This website was unavailable.

Ask.com - Ask.com - Adults - Answers to all your questions

Yahooligans - Yahoo.com - Adults - Great easy to use layout

Surf the Net With Kids -surfnetkids.com- Kids- Great design

Awesome Library - awesome library.com - Kids - Kid Friendly

EduPuppy - edupuppy.com - Kids - Has a broad search radar

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Below is a link to find these websites.

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Know How to Evaluate a Website and it's Content!

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Know How to Evaluate a Website and it's Content!

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There are five aspects to websites that students should be able to identify and evaluate.

1. Authority - Who wrote/published the site and what are their credentials? Is the site supported by a reputable source? Your students should be aware that anyone can create and publish websites of all kinds. So the first thing students should do when they visit a website is identify who the author(s)/publisher is.

2. Objectivity - Is the site bias; does the site support multiple points of view? What is the authors purpose for the site? Students should be aware that websites use propaganda and bias and what this looks like. Students need to be able to identify if the site provides facts or opinions.

3. Currency - Is the site up-to-date? Students should know that websites can stay on the web for years and years without the author ever updating the content material of the site. Students should be able to verify whether the provided information is reliable and current.

4. Accuracy - How is the site's grammar and spelling? Are there provided references? Your students need to be able to identify whether the content of a website is verifiable and support with research. The students need to be able to identify the differences in the "level" of the sites reliability.

5. Usefulness - Can this website help you? Authors write and create websites to target a specific audience, typically based on the target audiences age. The age of the audience effects whether that site is appropriate or not to use by that viewer. Your students should not be using sites that target college students or adults if they are in middle school. Students need to have the ability to identify whether a site is age appropriate to use.

Below you will find a link to a evaluation tool site. This site is a great resource to use when teaching students how to evaluate websites.

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This is a great site to help students evaluate websites.

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Use this tool to evaluate Web pages. Fill in the site URL you are evaluating, then select three criteria for your evaluation. Click on Help for ideas what to evaluate. Sometimes one criteria is enough--you'll find a red flag and have no need for further study to know that the information should not be trusted.

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This site was created to provide educators with reliable resources to help teacher introduce safe guards to their students. These safe guards includes understanding how to use electrical environments carefully, as well as strategies to better their use of digital search engines, and five things students can use to evaluate websites. The resources provided here are all from reputable sources.

This site provides several links to articles explaining tips that educators can use to teaching students how to appropriately use electrical environments, such as websites found on the World Wide Web, digital search engines, and social networking sites.

Several videos have been provided as well, which educators can use to teach students how to appropriately use these electrical environments.

I hope you and your students enjoy and grow from the provided information.

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This is a site that elaborates all of the various aspects that are included in a digit footprint and understand your own footprint.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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1- Introduce your students to Digital Footprint

We would recommend that you share with your students this GREAT video as an introduction to the topic digital footprint .

3- what is a Digital Dossier

4- What digital footprint tells others

More resources on Digital Footprint

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A Great Guide on Teaching Students about Digital Footprint

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1- Introduce your students to Digital Footprint We would recommend that you share with your students this GREAT video as an introduction to the topic digital footprint . 3- what is a Digital Dossier 4- What digital footprint tells others More resources on Digital Footprint

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This video shows you a few simple strategies that students and anyone really can use to make the difficult task of using search engines easier!

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http://www.gcflearnfree.org/searchbetter With a few basic search strategies, you can find almost anything online. It doesn't matter if you're using Google, Yahoo!, Bing, or some other type of search engine; most of the techniques in this video are universal. Take a look, and find out how you can improve your web search skills.