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As an educator, how do you teach/promote digital citizenship? What specific activities do you use that could help other educators?

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NCDC conducted a survey of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) members last April to gain insight into educators' understanding of digital citizenship and classroom needs. Results were released this week and are summarized here. Also see the Microsoft digital citizenship curriculum site at: http://www.digitalcitizenshiped.com/

Twitter and backchanneling sessions only capture information for finite periods of time. This site will be used to store all of the great links and resources discovered through ISTE 2011 (Jun 26-29, 2011) so you can retrieve them at home. Please join with me and share your favorite links.

Google Blog Site article

Google's answer to Facebook. See the article on the Google Blog for more information: http://bit.ly/google_plus_project

"There seem to be three forces at play when it comes to education and social media"

Media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

Free curriculum from Common Sense Media for GR 9-12. Designed to empower students to think critically and make informed choices about how they create, communicate, and treat others in our ever-evolving, 24/7 digital world. Browse the units to find the topics and lessons that are just right for your students.

Teenagers review social sites for kids as part of the Digiteen project.

How to teach digital safety as discussed at ISTE10.

Slideshow presentation by Chris O'Neal (ISTE) and Rob Bayuk (Microsoft). Microsoft and ISTE have joined forces to put together a series of web literacy lessons, activities, and support resources to help students develop their critical thinking skills when searching the web. You can find the teacher resources here: http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx

Excellent educator-created video offers students an introduction to the concepts of "managing personal identity online" and "digital footprint" and what it will mean in the course of their lifetime. Particularly noteworthy are the employer comments regarding what they learn from reading what job candidates have posted online and how it affects them both negatively and positively in considering the person for a job.

See how districts have embraced new technologies while maintaining high standards and keeping students safe. Explore sample policies used at exemplary schools around the world. You can download Steve Dembo's presentation notes here: http://teach42.com/presentations/policies-ISTE.zip

Microsoft and ISTE have joined forces to put together a series of web literacy lessons, activities, and support resources to help students develop their critical thinking skills when searching the web. The new student-centered curriculum will provide guidance and activities for your students on how to search effectively, how to analyze "the anatomy of a search result," and moreover, understand how to judge the validity and source of the content they find on the web. This curriculum was developed collaboratively by ISTE and Microsoft and will be available soon free to educators.

Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs.

Video shared by Renee Hobbs explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim.

SecretBuilders is a virtual world for children 5 to 14 years old powered by a web 2.0 community of children, parents, educators, writers, artists and game developers. On SecretBuilders, kids explore virtual lands, undertake quests, play games, maintain a home, nurture a pet, and interact with their friends.

Global collaboration project headed by Vickie Davis and Julie Lindsay. Connect your classroom locally and globally to create meaningful and authentic learning communities using Web 2.0 tools and emerging technologies.