Day 19: Email Assessment

Email Assessment:

This is a TEST. No cheating!!! Compose a properly formatted, professional e-mail to your teacher that describes the 3 most important things you've learn in Digital Literacy so far this semester.  Send your email to: mhaworth@student.leyden212.org  This is a TEST. No cheating!!!

• short descriptive subject in initial caps
• formal greeting and closing with proper puntuation
• message that is short and to-the-point
• include text emphasis where appropriate
• proper spelling and grammar (punctuation, capitalization, etc...)

Digital Footprint Assignments

1. Complete the I Googled Myself activity.
2. Complete this worksheet about other people's digital footprints.

Showcase Website / Digital Portfolio

Add content to the Home page

• Make your name stand out
• Add a button to link to your About page
• Include your personal statement
• Consider creating a welcome video for this page

Create an About page with your professional picture, activities, and honors

• School
• Extracurricular Activities
• Volunteering
• Skills & Languages
• What programs and/or applications would you say you are proficient at?  
• What computer skills do you have to offer at this point in your career?
• Soft skills developed 
• Include information on soft skills you developed thus far such as communication, time management, collaboration, etc.  Check out a list of soft skills HERE.
• Honors & Awards
• Add pictures that relate to the different activities
• Consider adding an About Me Video

Create a Contact page with links to Gmail, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger, and LinkedIn

• Use images as links to your professional social media accounts
• Consider creating a video that explains your brand name

Create a Portfolio page with links to examples of your work

• Performance videos
• plays, sports, concerts, speeches, service projects, etc...
• Evidence of your writing
• School projects of which you are proud

Personal Brand

• Add your professional photo to all of your accounts
• Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Weebly, Blogger, YouTube
• Begin working on your Personal Brand Presentation.

• start simple and build from there
• you can always go back and make it "better"
• this Personal Brand Checklist might help you stay on track
• If you have not done so already, make a copy of this helpful document and start preparing for your future by:
• Creating your Resume
• Preparing a general Cover Letter
• Creating a list of your Network of Contacts:
• What kind of people do you have your network?
• The goal is establish quality relationships with others in your industry that you can potentially leverage, and create visibility for yourself.