Now that we are wrapping up the course, I have learnt so
much in regards to building a positive digital footprint. By ethically learning and living online, I
have grown my digital footprint. After
exploring several digital tools, I have become a more positive and educated digital
citizen.
The following list is a summary of most of the digital tools
I used:
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Blogger
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Feedly
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Diigo
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Scoop.it
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Twitter
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Google Docs
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Voice Thread
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Popplet
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Prezi
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Jing
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Animoto
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Slideshare
While creating a positive digital footprint, I always
consider the internet as a public place where anyone can see what I am
doing. Therefore, while participating in
this online course I always thought before I published. Considering this was an educational activity,
I consistently remained professional and ethical as well. Learning in a digital
environment has shown me there are so many ways people can create both good and
bad reputations of themselves online.
But throughout the course, I always took into consideration that I want
to keep my digital footprint as clean and positive as possible. Who knows who is watching you.
After learning about digital citizenship, specifically the
nine elements, I have grown into a much wiser digital citizen. I am more aware of my rights/responsibilities
and safety/security after using the forms to discuss these topics as well as
creating a group/collaborative presentation.
In order to promote quality online interactions, I have
explored several tools to assist with this.
They include Google Hangouts, blogs, VoiceThread, discussion forums, and
more. Promoting quality online
interactions is not hard if you are familiar with your digital responsibilities
and netiquette. Considering I took part
in a large amount of discussion through commenting on peer’s blogs and on their
discussion forums, I know that in order to create quality interactions I need to
critically think and ask questions in order to stimulate the conversation and
keep it going.
There are several ways to promote appropriate behaviours in
the digital world. By spreading
awareness of the digital responsibilities that digital citizens should hold,
others will understand why it is so important to be respectful and act online
as if they were in the real world. Also,
by sharing the basic rules of netiquette, people have an opportunity to learn
the most important rules when participating in the online world. Promoting
appropriate behaviour is the next step to creating a positive digital world.
After completion of this course, I will have a lot of
knowledge of how to work and live in a digital society. Although I was already a digital native prior
to this course, I have gained so much valuable information about the digital
society. Who knew it was so big!?!? By
sharing my knowledge with friends, family, and peers, I hope to spread information
based on the digital society we live in.
…Considering this is the final blog post of ADED 1P32, I
would just to like to express my appreciation for all of my online peers who
helped make this course a very valuable and memorable one. The information I have been given in this
course is something with no set value as I will continue to use all my
knowledge gained here and run with it as far as possible. After all, the world
is becoming so technologically advanced that the only way to keep up with the
game is to stay ahead of it!!!
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