Digital Media Unit
Hello and welcome to our blog site on Digital Media and
Citizenship.
In this unit we will explore some of the uses of digital
media that can potentially assist you in your learning, as well as what it
means to be a responsible digital citizen. We will explore these topics in a
variety of ways and it will allow you to respond in a way that you feel is best
for that par of the unit.
The blog we are going to be conducting this unit through can be found here.
To get started we are going to watch the following video
together as a class:
Part of being a good digital citizen is realizing what kind of digital footprint you are leaving on the web. Your job will be to pick one of the items (9 elements of digital footprint) that are listed in the video and post your thoughts on the blog. You can do this by logging in to the blog site using your Gmail or other email address and than posting your thoughts there. Please do this know before the video begins.
As a refresher the 9 elements of a digital footprint are as
follows (from the video):
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As a class we will quickly discuss what each of
these means and expand where necessary on what was shown in the video.
1. Digital Access
2. Digital Commerce
3. Digital Communication
4. Digital Literacy
5. Digital Etiquette
6. Digital Law
7. Digital rights and responsibility
8. Digital health and wellness
9. Digital Security
Once again you will now have sometime to put some thoughts
up on the blog on one of the areas that we just discussed.
I will give you about 10 min after the video
to make your posts!!Now to get ready for next class you can read or watch or check out the websites of at least two of the following links on topics that will be covered over the rest of the unit.
http://digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
http://www.2learn.ca/ydp/digcitizen.aspx – Watch the video
http://www.cyberwise.org/#!digital-citizenship/c1t53 - Check out the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCkTmZ0bF5Q&list=PLvzOwE5lWqhRhUa0Zet5__9yfLX8NRvb3&index=1 - What is Digital Citizenship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mebKKLpYGkQ&list=PLvzOwE5lWqhRhUa0Zet5__9yfLX8NRvb3&index=12 - Netiquette - Playing nice on the Internet
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