Digiteen

This webpage shows a lot of information about copyrights.

"The importance of intercultural awareness and communication has also becomes very important for internal management of organizations. We find that frequently large organizations across the world tend to employ people from many different cultures. This is quite well known for companies having different business units across the globe, and transferring employees across the globe to different countries. But this problem has also become also very important to organizations operating within confines of a single country. Thus we find that now US population consists of many different ethnic groups such as earliest American settlers, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, and so on."

"Given the newness of these types of technologies, it is only in the last few years that educators have started to notice them and explore their effects on student behavior and performance. While there is supporting evidence to suggest that these technologies have a large influence on the social development of adolescents, an even more pertinent issue for classroom teachers is what effects these technologies have on the academic development of young people. In this article, I examine how students' use of text messaging technology, specifically IM, affects their writing skills. How does IM use affect students' interest in traditional writing (as learned in school)? In what ways does IM usage affect students' writing ability? How does "IM-speak" change students' views of what is considered "proper" language? How can classroom teachers build on student use of this increasingly popular technology? In this paper I provide a discussion of the current issues and current teacher practices surrounding instant messaging as it relates to student writing."

This shows laws about cyber stalking and cyber harassment (and what states they apply in) which are huge problems in virtual worlds.

This page talks about copyright and fair use

digital literacy resources

Taking the Mystery Out Of Copyright

Just caught up with this video today - another great way to start the conversation about our online life with students.

Changes coming for the COPPA law

Great resource for teachers and students in all areas.

An excellent list of resources shared via this blog post.

Great resources to learn more about digital citizenship.

Great Pinterest!