Digital+Citizenship+Website

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Narrative on Website Page Creation -

The topic for this activity was to create a website on Digital Citizenship. The significance of this activity was to introduce us to the topic in a creative and innovative manner. Teachers love to teach and what better way to engage the student than to let them teach. Our job was to set up a webpage. Many of us, including myself, had never done that before but we all realize how much we have learned from others websites. We were given free range to plan, design, and develop a free website. As we went through the 7 weeks we continued to learn about the many branches of digital citizenship. One in particular was learning how to legally share our website with a creative commons license. In this way we can collaborate with others in learning. Through the mutual sharing of information on such real world issues, properly citing sources, and opening our minds to include more than just the physical world, we have been able to set an example for our students, our families, and our communities.
 * Description:**


 * Selection Process:**

To see my website, click on the title at the top of this page. Selecting the three separate topics for each page was complicated. I had to ask myself what it was I needed to learn and how I could use it with what I already know. My first page is on Digital Literacy. I chose this because I wanted to help students/teachers/adults learn how to cite sources to help eliminate plagiarism. Copyright issues abound with the use of the Internet. I see how the students struggle to figure out what and how they need to site. I already teach students how to use Microsoft Word to cite sources so I combined the two for my Digital Literacy page. My second page is on Digital Access. I have been teaching adult community courses on technology for 10 years. My students range from 30 to 85. I can see firsthand how aging can be a drawback to computer use so I wanted to use this webpage to talk about assistive technologies for adults/seniors. I sent out a survey and from the responses designed the webpage accordingly. The third and final page was on Digital Etiquette. I also teach college level courses and I wanted to learn more about cell phone etiquette so keep up with my students. I talked with my students about this topic and they were very interested in talking about it. I used their ideas to further my development on this webpage.

I enjoyed this project. Building a free webpage was food for my creative side. I have decided to take an html course as I found unless you know html language you can’t individualize. When this class started I don’t think any of us knew what Digital Citizenship meant. For me, this was a very pleasant and fun way to learn. This was a real journey. I was able to look at myself and ask “was I modeling proper digital citizenship”. I learned that responsibility and respect are values that need to be relearned in the digital world, that plagiarism and copyright issues are much more prevalent with the Internet, and that there are assistive technologies available to make the Internet accessible to everyone. The most important lesson learned was that we must work in together with students, families, friends, and communities to become aware of the importance of these issues and their consequences in a global arena of the Internet.
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