Your Digital Footprint

Your digital footprint, or what you post online, can be seen by a large invisible audience. Today you'll learn how to take control of your digital footprint based on what you post online.

Watch a video explaining what a Digital Footprint is.

Read the top 10 things to think about before you post

Flocabulary video: Oversharing: Think Before you Post

Creating Safe Passwords

Passwords protect your online accounts from being stolen or used by others. The older you get, the more important password security will become. Choosing good passwords will help protect your social networking profiles, keep your grades private, and protect your online accounts.

Watch this short video on creating a Secure Password.

Here are some guidelines to creating passwords that are both secure and easy to remember:

• use at least 8 characters
• use a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters. Capitals are a good idea too.
• Think of a word or phrase you can remember, then change a few of the letters to numbers or special characters (for example Gi@nts2014)

Strong Passwords handout can be found here.

When your teacher asks you to, please click here to go to the PVUSD accounts portal and then click the link to go to the password reset page. Once you're done, log out of your Chromebook and log back in a few times to practice it.

If you forget your newly updated password, please go to the library or ask your teacher to contact Emily.

Edit your images in Chrome

Did you know that you can edit the brightness or contrast, crop, and edit photos with Chrome's built in photo viewer tool? Simply download and open the image, then access a variety of tools on the bottom right corner of the Chrome image viewer. Read OMGChrome's blogpost for more detailed directions.