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Teaching kids to manage their Digital Footprint really starts with the adults. Teachers can't teach this effectively if they, themselves have not managed their own digital footprint. It is also important not to confuse managing a digital footprint with being hidden or private. Branding our identities has become more and more important in the digital age and if students and teachers aren't actively managing their digital footprint, then who is?

Five ideas to enable educators to develop and model a purposeful and professional digital footprint.\n\n1-Model responsible footprinting with your own practices in blogging, commenting, social networking, and picture posting.\n2-If you have established a professional blog, share it widely and proudly such as placing it in your email signature (if your employer will let you) and as Jeff Utecht suggests include your blog url when you comment on others blogs and in other forums. This enables others to see best practices and is a great way to get the conversation started.\n3-Google yourself (aka ego surfing). If you have something posted online that you'd be uncomfortable having a current or future student, parent, colleague, or employer find, delete it (if you can) or request that it be deleted. There are ways an aggressive internet detective can still find this information, but most won't go through the trouble and the mere fact that you deleted it shows some level of responsibility.\n4-If you do have online personal information and/or interests you wouldn't want discovered, use an unidentifiable screen name/avatar. This means you may need to update your screen name/avatar in your existing online presence.\n5-Engage in the conversation and professionally comment, reply, and present online, onsite, and at conferences.

this would be an interesting activity for students to do in their own context.  If you're blogging with students or creating any kind of online digital content, have them create their own digital footprints and then analyse what they've created this past year.

Back in the day, people thought they could be anonymous online. Now everyone knows Internet activity leaves a trail. Some of those footprints are the unintended byproduct of other activities like shopping or registering to get access to a website. Other footprints are deliberate-a mark in the digital sand that says "I was here."

An entire blog devoted to "My Digital Footprint" - with excellent analysis of the different facets.

This is a very simple video that does a great job of explaining why your digital footprint should be monitored and kept positive.

When it comes to job hunting, people have no shortage of concerns: preparing a compelling resume, providing polished answers to interview questions, and having excellent references, just to name a few. But since the word "Google" became a verb, job seekers have one more thing to worry about: ensuring their online records won't deter hiring managers from making a job offer. Many employers are incorporating an informal online search of applicants into their review process. Whether or not negative information about you exists on the web, it's a good idea to ensure there are plenty of positive associations. This article from the folks at Adobe makes four recommendations for how to manage your digital footprint.

Giving Students Ownership of Learning: Footprints in the Digital Age. In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks.

It's important for parents today to realize they are creating an online dossier for a human being that will be with them for years to come. It's worth considering what kind of digital footprint or online history you want to leave for your child. When your child is a teenager or adult, what will they make of the information you are currently uploading now? 5% of babies under 2 have social media profiles, 7% have email addresses, 81% of two-year-olds have a digital footprint. The irony here is that Zogby International just published a survey of parents that found 90% of them think their kids share too much information online and social networks aren't doing enough to protect them. See the story at: http://bit.ly/CNNparentpoll

How much information about your daily life gets recorded by big business and Big Brother? Play this simple interactive scenario by conducting your normal transactions as you would on any given day. We'll show you how often you feed information about yourself to corporate and government databases. Then, play them again and try to see if you can reduce your digital footprint and see what benefits you'll lose trying to get off the grid.

Great kid-oriented site from Australia. Contains videos, tips and activities related to discovering your digital footprint.

Excellent educator-created video offers students an introduction to the concepts of "managing personal identity online" and "digital footprint" and what it will mean in the course of their lifetime. Particularly noteworthy are the employer comments regarding what they learn from reading what job candidates have posted online and how it affects them both negatively and positively in considering the person for a job.

Story about protecting one's digital footprint in difficult economic times. You never know what a potential employer is going to dig up.

You may think that because you uploaded a piece of information about yourself, that you can control it, but your digital footprint may be harder to manage than you may think.

Have you ever Googled yourself ? Have you ever checked your virtual identity? Do you know that you leave a digital footprint every time you get online? Do you know that whatever you do online is accumulated into a digital dossier traceable by others ?

Creative lesson on digital footprint and online safety in Clarence Fisher's class!

Advice for teens from www.kidshealth.org. Here are some things to consider to safeguard your online identity and reputation:
1. Remember that nothing is temporary online
2. Mark your profile as private.
3. Safeguard your passwords and change them regularly.
4. Don't post inappropriate or sexually provocative pictures or comments.
5. Don't respond to inappropriate requests
6. Take a breather to avoid "flaming."
7. Learn about copyrights.
8. Check your digital footprint.
9. Take it offline.

"Today's child has a digital footprint the size of bigfoot (especially compared to us) and their online life is just as important to them as their "real" life. How do we keep our children safe in this brave new world? By educating them how to make the right decisions online and by modeling appropriate behavior on the internet. Yes that means we need to exist in the virtual world so we can see, hear, and participate in the main street of the 21st century."

Better Think Again Before You Post Those Spring Break or Mardi Grad Party Pics! Are you having fun posting party pictures, Spring Break vacation photos and personal information about boyfriends and girlfriends on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and other favorite social networking sites? If so, you probably have a big digital footprint that might keep you from getting a job or getting into college

What happens to our digital footprint when we die? In the physical world, a will instructs friends and family what to do with money and assets. But online lives and their impact may not be taken into account.