1. 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?
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2. 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?
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3. 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?

4. 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.
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USE PINTEREST TO CLEAN UP A SKETCHY WEB PRESENCE

5. 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!
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6. 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
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7. 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.