Online Profiles
Success Criteria for Digital Citizenship Badge
Explain why it is important to create a safe online profile
Identify how to create a safe online profile.
Presentation & Activities for Profiles
Onlineprofiletips.pdfHandout
This handout is from ReadWriteThink.org and gives tips to help choose information that is safe to share on the internet when creating an online profile.
OnlineNameForm.pdfGroupwork Worksheets
These are worksheets for a groupwork activity to create an online profile from ReadWriteThink.org.
Online Profile Defined
Definition
Cambridge Dictionary Online define an Online Profile as “information about a person's life, work, interests, etc. on a social networking website”
What Information Can We Tell from the Email Addresses Below?
What can you tell about the people who own each of these email addresses just by looking at them?
Make a list of the information that you can make out about the owners of each of the email addresses below:
Email1:
jmsmith@donegaletb.ie
Email 2:
goalieno1seanmaccumhails@gmail.com
Email 3:
rockchick1998@hotmail.com
Only after you have tried yourself, click below for some information that you might have guessed?
Email 1:
The person's name is probably J. M. Smith.
The person is probably either a student or employee of Donegal ETB.
The person probably lives in Donegal or a county close to it.
Email 2:
The person plays GAA as SeanMacCumhaills is a GAA Club.
The person probably lives around the Ballybofey area as this is where SeanMacCumhaills GAA Club is.
The person plays as a goalkeeper.
Email 3:
The person likes rock music.
The person is probably a girl/woman as they called themselves a “chick”.
The person may have been born in 1998 which makes them 23 years old.
Google Education Video - Manage Your Online Reputation
Reflect:
Was there anything new in the Video that
you learned or found interesting?
Tips for Creating Online Profiles from readwritethink.org
Create an Online Profile using the above Tips & the Worksheet Below from readwritethink.org
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