Even we have been using the internet for a long long time,
learning how to be responsible with our online activities can be complicated. In
week 1, we discussed the importance of building and maintaining positive
footprint, examined the rules or expectations for behavior in a digital
environment and discovered purpose of blogging.
My Digital Footprint
My digital footprint is everything on the internet that is
about me. Talk about how I feel today, comment on facebook about friend’s
status, post my meal from last night, or online shopping using my credit
card…..
I am constantly link
to the internet, however, I’ve never thought of what would such connection
impact my life, or why it is so important for educator and student to use the
web appropriately.
With all of the attention on privacy in the media nowadays, it’s
not just our own online actions that we need to worry about but others (even
someone you don’t know) comments sould contributes to our digital footprint. So…who
would actually want to leave their footprints all over the web? Digital
footprint is a trail of information, and what is mine look like? What
information about me can be found and where is it found?
By doing the activity ‘Seek you Digital Footprint Scavenger
Hunt’, I have some of my questions answered. I ran a Google search using “Kawai
Sabarillo” and got 311 search results. Well… not much about me and I think this
showed I did a great job in removing tags and my privacy settings. But on the
other side, the internet is a great platform to reach the world so why not take
advantage?? As Ainslie (2009) mentioned, we should have a digital footprint and
keep track of it. I believe there are
many ways to shape our online presence safely and effectively, “take the bull
by the horns”, and I am looking forward to learn more of how to own and control
my Digital Footprint in this course.
Behavior in a Digital World
Have you ever at one time been guilty of sharing too much
information on facebook? Have you ever posted a comment that later makes you
cringe?? Reflecting on my behavior in a digital world is the most interesting
learning process in week1.
Most of us have an active profile on at least one social
networking site, we can message, chat or email to anyone, anywhere with a
digital device. And what interesting is, we can also show others our emotions
and behaviors even they can’t see you face.
We can always tape in nice words when communicate with
others on the web, but to complicate matters further, good netiquette is not
only using nice manner but also about right actions. Hacking others computer,
downloading illegally, plagiarism and using bad language on the internet are
serious issues that we should be aware of and the digital etiquette is a basic
set of rules that everybody should follow in order to make internet better for the
world.
Blogging
Many internet tools and website have facilitated the
exchange of information and expanded access to our learning environment, “Blogging”
is one of them.
Blogging is …
· * a website that managed by an individual
· * with regular contents like post, pictures,
graphics or video
· * to share ideas, reflections, comments,
discoveries and more
I believe blogging enhances great learning opportunity, with
constantly writing, reading, reflecting, researching and most importantly, connecting
to others and the world; we build a collaboration space of learning.
To sum up learning in
week 1, “Make Positive Connection” to the digital world is what we have to
prepare before we start any online activities. We understand that internet is
vast and seemingly anonymous, and we should learn how to be a responsible,
careful and considerable user. “Both students and teachers need to find a
common ground. They all need to become members of digital citizentry” (Ribble,
2012, p.2)
References
- Ainslie
, D. J. (2009). Yes, you should
have a digital footprint. . . and keep track of it
- Digital Citizenship in Schools, 2nd Edition By Mike Ribble 2011 ISBN 9781564843012 Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education
