Homework: Digital Citizenship and Quality Resources

Two Tasks:  

Task One:  Digital Citizenship Research (prep for Monday 10/6)

Research your tenets of digital citizenship, and come to class ready to work in your group to plan and continue research as a group, for a group presentation!  

Digital Citizenship Resources
research through your assigned lens....  and become the expert on your area.
Define, key examples, components, .... 

Character education
http://globaldigitalcitizen.org/digital-citizenship-school-program/

http://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/en/school_technology/digital_citizenship__cyberbullying/

http://sites.google.com/site/digitalcitizenshipresources/main_page
a wiki with TONS of resources on all the dimensions of D.C.

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/

http://www.nisd.net/digitalcitizen/

http://digitalcitizen.illinoisstate.edu/

http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/safety.cfm

a list of sites to help think about safety- a pro/con list, some sites to use to teach kids about it, etc...

http://www.cyberbully.org/

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html

http://www.brainpop.com/spotlight/digitalcitizenship/

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators
curriculum for digital literacy and resources...
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum

www.growing-up-online.com
digital footprint article, teaching kids to surf safely, ...

wayback machine (a govt sponsored archive of the internet)
http://www.archive.org/index.php

Task Two:  (due Wednesday 10/8)  

Explore these ways to find quality resources (try at least 4 of the 6 options) and choose the three places that you think were most helpful to you. 

Post a blog, title it: Finding Teaching Resources

: which resources were most helpful (rank #1,2,3)

:tell why you preferred that source.

Ways to find good learning resources that would help with teaching content or in a lesson...

1. Start with Mrs. Poling's livebinder and PLN buidling.... check livebinders home page for a binder on your content areas
2. ask virtual friends who teach at:  EduPLN
3. tweet about it in an organized chat from this list # forum  or get a #tag here from cybraryman
4. Use the EDUBLOG awards list for finding content/grade level related blogs
5. Use the WEBQUEST databases for a tested WEB 2.0 teacher created tool.
6. Pinterest 

Pinners to follow:
Tina Wahlert (boards for content areas, tools, etc.) 
Coolcatteacher
a list of 25 educators to follow (and how pinterest is used in education)
how to and 5 power pinners