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Great resources to learn more about digital citizenship.

Taking the Mystery Out Of Copyright

As students work on projects, permissions for photos is important, this website lists 50 of the top places to get free photos.

Use social media mindfully.

A 12 year old student at a school in Minnewaska was forced to give up her password and username in order for her school to view comments made about the student. The ACLU filed a suit on behalf of the student against the Minnewaska Area Schools.  

This article is about a girl who was forced to give her username and password for her Facebook account, to her school. The school didn't have a warrant or permission of any kind to take her information, which violates her constitutional rights. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the school for this violation.

The article "ACLU, 12-Year Old Sue Minnesota School Over Facebook Incident" was about a 12-year old girl. The girl in this article was refered as R.S. Issues starting coming up when R.S. had something on Facebook that said the school's hall monitor hated her. The school forced her to give them her username and password then searched her page. After, a son's mom complained to the school that R.S. and her son were talking about sex online. Once the school demanded to go through her account again, the ACLU charged them for not giving her the freedom of speech and unreasonably searching though her stuff. This was violating the First and Fourth Amendment since the two incidents. In the end R.S. didn't get in trouble but the school did.

a student in minnesota is sueing the school and school board over taking he Facebook username and password the school did this in the name of protecting the learning enviorment. yet the post made by the student was made outside of school and not using the schools network

A student in minnesota is suing the school and school board over taking her Facebook username and password. the school did  this in the name of protecting the learning envirment. Yet the made by the student

A student in Minnesota is suing the the school and school board over taking her Facebook username and password. The school did this in the name of protecting the learning enviroment. yet the post was made by the student occurred outside of school and not using the schools network. 

Another celebrity has there personal information hacked.  Shows how we need to be more responsible for what we take photos and video of as more people are having their emails and phones hacked. 

Being nice, and respectful on the Internet is something that everyone should do. There are many people who don't fallow netiquette rules, and it may be hurtful to people who don't understand our humor. These guidelines are just a set of rules that make the Internet a safe and happy place for everyone to use.

This is a great website that covers a few basic international agencies and what they do to help protect copyright. It also included a few international treaties that have had a major impact on international copyright. 

The content of the web site is informing, the more interesting part is the map graphic on the left side of the page its the third picture down if you start with the head line picture. The picture shows countries and their restrictions on internet searches and how the government controls what a person views on the internet.

This article describes the basics of what culture is and how there are differences in different cultures. It also gives some examples of how cultures can be different. 

Cell phone etiquette is just as important as important as internet etiquette. Being respectful is important, especially when on the internet because you never know how your words could affect someone else.

Iyanna, I really like this link it has a lot of good information on it about Cell Phone Etiquette. :)

This is about a comedian's ex wife putting videos of their marriage falling apart on youtube. She is being sued for not having rights to post stuff about him on youtube. She posted 3 26 minute videos on it.

A campaign to try and help benefit the internet.

New stuff coming inn to internet

about the internet

Its about how these girls are trying to help other kids get their work done when they are really stressed about the social networking sites. They say they are not good enough for anything and that they are too stressed out when its only one thing thats disturbing them. Those websites with social accounts.

Its about how myspace is getting over 1 million users over the past month. They also raised a lot more money from those users. Justin Timberlake is the owner of the Music department of myspace and he has made tons of money. Like 580 million since 2005.

This website explains etiquette on different social networks. Each social network is different so the etiquette for each site will be different. This site explains how to use the different social networks, blogs and new sites and be respectful and responsible while doing so.