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Use Google to explore your digital footprint
From the course: Teacher Tech Tips
Use Google to explore your digital footprint
- [Voiceover] Hello and welcome to Teacher Tech Tips. I'm Oliver Schinkten. This week's tip seems like kind of a strange one, but it may be the most important one we've had and that is to Google yourself. Yup, Google yourself. Now what comes up is part of your digital footprint and it's an accumulation of things you've done online. There may be social media accounts, blog posts, an article about you, an award you've won. It could be a lot of things. Some good things, some bad things. Take a little time to explore some of the things that appear on your Google page and go to page two and page three and check some of them out. For instance, this is my Twitter account and it's one that people can see. So when I look at it, I want to make sure that I have appropriate things here. We talk a lot in schools about getting kids career ready but we don't seem to pay enough attention to their digital footprint. It's become increasingly important to have a positive digital footprint as more and…