Reflect on your own digital footprint. What search results are returned if your name is Googled? How can you make your footprint positive (as opposed to neutral or nonexistent)? What role can we play in making sure our students have a positive footprint?

My digital footprint changes each time I check.  Following presentations for various organizations or change in positions or educational changes, I am able to find my footprint online.  However, it has been several years since some of these occurrences so my current footprint is nonexistent.  Based on the article from CareerBuilder, there are several strategies that I could and should use to create a positive footprint, including: mastering a brief sound bite for my profile pages; developing a network intentionally; showcasing my skills through links to webfolios, blog, or website if relevant to my career (perhaps links to the good things I have done); and using keywords in the Tags section.   

After Symbaloo:

After using Symbaloo to store various webpages, I must say this would have been awesome to use while I was working on my dissertation, in place of downloading all the various pdfs to my personal computer and figuring out how to store and back-up the many, many, many resources I had.  The ease of use and ability to notate in various places and in various ways makes this tool excellent for research.  

I guess I don't recognize Susie's problem as I think once you worked to complete and curate a body of resources for your work, you would remember what you had done and where to go, which is the genius of this tool.  

Making the resources a part of your regular instruction would mean linking your symbaloos to your LMS or into your Google accounts.  

Authentic Assessment

Do you believe that authentic assessment is possible in every subject area? Can students at every grade level demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment? Why or why not? Is it practical to ask teachers to complete these types of activities in the current, high stakes testing environment?

I do believe that authentic assessment is possible in every subject area because all material they are learning should be applicable in some way to the child's learning. However, I don't think that authentic assessments i possible for every STANDARD as not all standards are written in such a way to allow for more rigorous or applicable assessments.  
I believe that students at every grade level can demonstrate mastery through authentic assessments provided the teacher has adequate time to create, teach, and administer those assessments, and the students are given quality time to respond to the assessments.  
Authentic assessment is the basis for inquiry learning.  So it is possible, just not probable given the handicapping environments most teachers/students must work within.