Prior to this course, I have had some experience with the concepts of Digital Citizenship.  In one of the courses in my Ed.S program, I had a large group project on Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teacher.  Additionally, in that class I created a PowerPoint of scenarios related to Digital Citizenship.   I have used this PowerPoint presentation in two different classes with teachers and encouraged them to re-deliver this information to their peers and students.  I uploaded this PowerPoint to SlideShare ten months ago.  To date, it has received 907 views and four embeds.  Additionally, Oklahoma DOE contacted me to ask permission to use it in a invitation-only professional learning activity.  As of this time, I have not done anything to develop a program on Digital Citizenship for my school.  As a teacher leader, I will discuss this with my principal.  On our monthly early-release days, we have technology training scheduled.  Perhaps we can include training on Digital Citizenship. 

Professional Development Course in Digital Citizenship Syllabus

Links related to my online presentation on Ergonomics:

PDLM Plan

Powerpoint Presentation

An Introduction to Ergonomics

Article about the weight of student backpacks 

Healthy Computing for Kids 

Infinity Station

Ergonomics slideshow 

Computer Ergonomics for Elementary School

Ergonomics for Elementary Students

OSHA Online Course on Ergonomics

OTHER LINKS OF IMPORTANCE:

The Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship encompass the things that teachers and students should be aware of as they interact in the world of technology.

Articles, presentations, and hand-outs on the themes of Digital Citizenship 

BrainPop - Digital Citizenship Activities

Teaching Elementary Students about Digital Citizenship(lessons by grade) 

  Scenarios as a Powerpoint.ppt

PowerPoint project of scenarios related to Digital Citizenship designed by Kati

'Ja Making Good Decisions on Digital Citizenship

(PowerPoint with appropriate and inappropriate choices regarding the nine themes of Digital Citizenship).   Taken directly from the Ribble and Bailey book.

Web Pages referenced in Digital Citizenship in Schools (2007) :

Public Broadcasting Report on the Digital Divide (Digital Access)

This blog explores how new technology affects how educators teach and children learn. It discusses how wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, and social networking sites are impacting teacher and students' lives both inside and out of the classroom.  Other topics include: Cool Tools, Copyright, Digital Divide, Mobile Devices, Gaming, Media Literacy, Policy and Research.

Computer-Related Repetitive Strain Injury

RSI information, including book references and link to other Internet resources. 

Blogging

History of blogging, elements of a blog, reading blogs, writing blogs, how to find blogs

RSS

News and information on the RSS Readers, along with choices of aggregators.

Developing Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Ideas for using and developing the essential AUP.

My own experience with Fair Use:

Sent: 01 October 2009 01:03

To: hq@cartoonstock.com

Subject: CartoonStock Enquiry from 98.17.163.33 at 01/10/2009 01:02:45

Name: Kati

Email: searcy@fultonschools.org

Comments:

I would like to use three cartoons in an educational wiki that I have built.

Is this okay? Thank you. ks

mailto:searcy@fultonschools.org] www.cartoonstock.com

Hi Kati,

Many thanks for your enquiry about our cartoons.

If you are based in the USA and wish to use the cartoons for classroom use (and nothing outside the classroom) then under US "fair use" rules, you can use the low resolution images from the website free of charge as long as you credit

If you wish to obtain higher resolution copies of the images for better quality output and no copyright marks, or you live in Canada, you will need to purchase our inside the US and Canada Educational Use License (our license category 1c ) for GB£7 (approx. US$12) per image.

Please note however that if your web site will be part of the WWW, or available in any way to be seen by the general public, then we could not include your usage within an educational category and you would need to purchase a non commercial web license at a cost of GBP25 (approx. USD43) per image.

You can select your cartoons, pay for them and download high resolution versions from our web site at

. To find your cartoons simply copy the reference numbers from the subject box of this e-mail into the search page box on the website and change the keyword treatment to 'Ref'. Alternatively contact me directly with credit card/billing details and we can email the high resolution images to you.

www.cartoonstock.com

as the source, although these will have a copyright mark on them. This law does not extend to Canada.