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Third grade students created this video, How to Write a Quality Comment, and it highlights the importance of embedding digital citizenship lessons into the youngest classrooms.

Scootle is a website which is a way of locating any of the 8000 items/learning objects in the Learning Federation for K-12. It just makes it easier to locate, download and manage required items, and a means to access this bank of resources. You can manage the resources into folders of your own, and can give instructions and/or comments for each item. It provides a URL for students or other staff to access your bank of resources webpage.

A useful video developed for students at Sibley High School. College. Administrators and employers comment on how student representation in social media (digital footprint) influences college admission practices and hiring decisions.

"An interesting sketchnote about how to introduce maker stations to the Learning Commons. Of course it's not the only way but this is how we are attempting to change the culture in our school and to foster entrepreneurial spirit in our students. We would love feed back or comments on how others are doing it!"

A piece that brings together, in an annotated list, a number of useful tools for writing purposes. There are also a number of other mentioned in the comments that follow the post.

Snap: Teenagers connect and express themselves via digital media but might be less conscious of how the footprint that follows their photos, videos and posts will affect them as adults. Pictures and comments posted online leave a public trail of digital footprints, and it can be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to remove the bits we don't want others to see.

Some practical ways that we can approach digital citizenship. Important to note that the article promotes not reading or writing about Digital Citizenship but doing/living it each day both teachers and students.

This article challenges the status quo which reveals that most schools are studying very few books by female authors and that there is an under representation by the media of reviewing books written by female authors. Aviva Tuffield argues that this gives women and men a distorted view of our society and contributes to unconscious bias again genuine equality.