Welcome, parents!
Click here for the presentation from tonight's conversation.
Complete the following exercises to start learning about your student's digital footprint.
- Go to google.com and search for your student. Try different variations of his/her name (ex: Michael, Mike), and search with and without quotation marks (ex: Michelle Lampinen and "Michelle Lampinen").
- Go to alerts.google.com and set up Google alerts for your student's name. Again, you can use different variations, as well as his/her name with and without quotation marks.
- Go to facebook.com and search for your student's name. If his/her name is common, try adding New Jersey or NJ to the search. If you don't have an account, sign up!
- **note: even if you are FB friends with your student, it is extremely easy for him/her to limit what you can and cannot see.
- Take a look at some of the ways we use Facebook for educational purposes. Feel free to "like" the pages! (I will warn you that I post a lot!)
- BTHS official page
- Ms. Lampinen's class page
- Ms. Lampinen's blog post about the educational uses for a class FB page
- Mrs. Faust's class page
- Mr. Fusco's class page
For further reading:
Footprints in the Digital Age
Social Media Find Place in Classroom
A Biotech grad's blog (he's proactively creating a professional digital footprint)