Chelsea's Blog!

Activity 1. Watch video and write post about your digital footprint Watch this video, thinking about what might be included on your digital dossier or digital footprint.

• What sites have you joined on the internet?
• How much information did you give them when you joined?
• Have you filled in more than the *asterisk questions?

Google your name or nickname but include your town as well.

• What did you find?
• Are you on the web for sports teams, named in newspapers and where else?
• How many cookies or footprints are you

 Activity 2. Create commenting guidelines page or text box for your blog This is especially needed in a class blog. Commenting is one part of our digital footprint, so it is important students know how to comment in an appropriate way.

Activity 4. What type of user are you on the web? Check out the infographic from Bloomberg Business Week in 2007. Write a post telling your readers about the type of person you are. Are you a mixture of more than one? Which one are your parents or grandparents? Perhaps question some people in each age group and see how they compare with the results in the infographic. Do you think the statistics may have changed over the four years since the infographic was created?

Activity 5. What is digital citizenship? Play this game about digital citizenship. How well did you go? Write a post telling your readers about digital citizenship – what you should do rather than what you shouldn’t do. Maybe you would prefer to create a book, poster or video about digital citizenship. Some web2.0 tools you might use with parental or teacher permission glogster, goanimate, audioboo or flipbook.

Activity 6. Visit other student or class blogs What are some of the different web 2.0 tools being used on those blogs. Are some of the tools in posts or as widgets? Look at the sidebars – are they too crowded or are they interesting because they are interactive? Do too many ‘flashy and glittery’things slow down the loading of the blog? Write a post explaining what you want your blog to be like by the end of the ten weeks. What will you include in the sidebar and why?

Activity 1- I watched the video and I saw that there is more things on my digital dossier then I thought there were.  I have a gmail account and I am involved in the student blogging challenge but I do not give  away any personal information so I am not at any risk.  Though I have filled out more than the asterisks questions but make sure I do not give away any personal information like my last name.  I do not give away my last name or any information that will give away who I am.  When I googled my name and town I found no traces of me which means I am not giving away to much about myself.  

 Activity 2- To see my commenting guidelines go to http://chelsea110gs.edublogs.org/guidelines-to-a-great-cooment/.

Activity 4- When I looked at the infographic I noticed I was a creator, critic and spectator because I write on my blog, I leave comments on other people’s blog and I read other people’s bogs.  I definatly think the statistics have chaned over the last four years because you are hearing more things about facebook and other social networking sites then before.

Activity 5- When I played the digital citizenship game the first time I scored 32 out of 100.  The thing I did best on was supporting Joe and helping him to tell someone what was happening.  With digital citizenship you should never post pictures of anyone on the internet without their permission and never post things that you wouldn’t want to be posted about yourself.  An easier way to put it is to be respectful to other people and yourself.

Activity 6- At the end of 10 weeks I want to have a few more widgets on my sidebar like a cluster map to show where my visitors are coming from but I don’t want to have an overload of widgets because I found when there was more widgets on a person’s sidebar it did take longer to load and sometimes it looks cluttered.

If you would like to visit the challenge blog and write a post about some of the ideas go to  http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/09/25/challenge-3-me-on-the-internet/.

category: Blogging Challenge