Public Identity To determine your current public online presence: Think about what types of stuff you post online Think about what you don’t post online Jot these thoughts down in your journal Discuss the fact that many of them didn’t write down really private stuff and I didn’t expect them to. There are things about me that I sure as heck wouldn’t write down. However, some people are willing to share stuff on Facebook that they wouldn’t share with an adult. Why? Image: http://www.billfrymire.com/blog/identity-theft/

Screen Shots Take a few screen shots or photos: Google your name + ? Google your name + school Google your name + town Take a Screen Shot of each (or copy and paste info into a word doc) Create a word doc called: Your Name September 2015 Internet Presence.docx We’ll come back to this later on, once you’ve added to/refined your online presence. They don’t want to report out much on this. It needs to be revised to make it more meaningful. It would be neat to come up with an activity where they do this for their age group, rather than themselves specifically? Image: http://bgr.com/2015/04/21/how-to-download-google-search-guide/

What did you find? Strong presence: positive – how did you create it? Strong presence: negative – what didn’t you like about it? Weak/no presence – what do you want to be out there?

Public Content Issues? Create a Pinterest account under your name Pin a bunch of stuff that you’d be fine having your grandma, or our principal or your parents seeing. Image: http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/pinterest-social-referral-traffic/459703 USE PINTEREST TO CLEAN UP A SKETCHY WEB PRESENCE

An Easy Way to Smarten Up your “Public Me” Publish a book review Proofread x 3 Publish in more than one location Include the standards Include your opinion Make it engaging – don’t be boring! Image: http://thegoldenpathway.blogspot.ca/2011/03/book-review-golden-pathway-powerful.html

Public Content Issues? I’ve given you a couple ideas It’s your turn to brainstorm ways to clean up and/or increase your public content Image: http://philmckinney.com/archives/2013/05/brainstorming-for-fun-and-profit-5-tips-for-teams.html

Reading Booklet: Answer all of the questions in the reading booklet (except for the Jamaican Fragment section) Reassure students that “private” info can be something as simple as age, address, etc. http://www.freecreditscore.com/resources/credit-articles/id-protection/is-there-a-difference-between-fraud-and-identity-theft