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This video lists four reasons that you should care about your digital footprint and does a great job explaining what your digital footprint is.

This is a source to show what you do online stays with you. There are several videos to watch about Digital Footprint, as well as a kids' site.

Digital Footprints matter

Article that explains what makes up a digital footprint.

This page tells you about your digital footprint and why you should be aware of what you post and search on the internet.

This article by Norton, a well-known antivirus, lists 6 great ways that you can use to help cleanup and limit your digital footprint.

This youtube video is a Tedx talk about digital footprints. Michelle does a great way of explaining why knowing how big of digital footprints you have is important. She gives insight for people and the students to understand more about this topic. We will show this in our class to aid in our lesson for online intelligence.

A great website that contains many informational videos about digital citizenship. One of the videos is about our digital footprint. There are many more videos that can teach us about what to not do on the internet, online talk: what is safe and risky, etc.

This video shows what your digital footprint can leave behind. It shows how important it is to have digital etiquette.

This is a good resource for explaining the concept of digital footprints and fostering safety and responsibility in students.

This is a short and sweet little overview of what a digital footprint is (aimed at younger children). This is helpful with teaching digital citizenship since students need to learn that everything they do online is permanent and is basically public.

This helps students understand why digital footprints are very important.

Info on what and why you should care about your digital footprint.

Tineye is a free tool that helps you conduct reverse image searches. In a reverse image search you're searching for the places where an image has been posted online. Conducting a reverse can be a good way for students to discover information about an object or location featured in a picture. As demonstrated above, when the image is located through Tineye students can click through to the source to see how the image was used and what was written about the image. Performing a reverse image search can provide students with a good lesson on digital footprints. Have them conduct a reverse image search for images they have posted online and then count the number of places where that image has appeared.

This video shows college students how easy it is for future employers to find negative things about you on the internet. It shows how important it is to be careful about what you post.

This website explains a digital citizen's online behaviors like a permanent tattoo. It is a great way to explain to older students the lasting effects of their actions online.

This is a website that includes a quiz about internet safety procedures for high school students. It has good and relevant information that has post-assessment questions at the end.