Digital Footprints

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog.

Today we had a guest come into our EDtech class to talk about internet privacy and media literacy. Jesse Miller came in and talked for an hour on various topics about technology and our lives on the internet. I found this talk a lot more engaging than the TEDtalk we watched for homework, perhaps because I could hear it a bit better :).

I remember talks about internet awareness and stranger danger of the online world from back in elementary school. However, we did not talk about the implications of social media on our future selves. My media footprints from middle school were erased to the best of my ability once I started applying for jobs in high school. My email from middle school, an address too embarrassing to release here, has long since been just for signing up for websites that require an email address. Although this is not the case for everyone.

For people who have forgotten their passwords to accounts that contain embarrassing tweets, videos, or pictures, there is little to do to erase these digital memories from their names. Before the internet, people made the same silly mistakes; however, they were not as well documented as today’s youth. For certain people, this could lead to not getting their dream job in the future because of a small mistake in their teens.

I wish we had talked a bit more about how parents are posting videos and photos of their children without consent, and how that could lead to trouble when the children get older. As children growing up nowadays already have a digital footprint, that they might not want. This is especially true in the mommy blogger circle.

Even though this might sound a little too Gen Z, there is a YouTuber named tiffanyferg who does social commentary and has addressed topics like these. I will link them below this post.

In addition to the privacy talk, we also learned a bit about iMovie. This was the first time that I recall using iMovie and it was pretty easy. I included some music in the background from a movie that I enjoy. I found the title cards a bit tricky to control but, I think with some more practice it will make sense.

Videos

Family Vloggers are Ridiculous 

The Importance of Deleting Old Posts

 

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