Digital Citizenship

Updated 6-5-16

Avatars

to promote digital privacy

1. Avatar–a monster
2. Build Your Wild Self
3. DoppelMe
4. Lego you
5. Pickaface
6. Tellagami–a video avatar
7. Vokis–free to create avatar; fee to embed
8. With comics, via Pixton — fee-based

Copyrights and Digital Law

1. Copyrights–BrainPop video
2. Copyright and Fair Use–Common Sense Media video
3. Copyright Law Explained (fun video, informative, thorough)
4. Copyright law curriculum
5. Creative Commons
6. Take the mystery out of copyrights–by the Library of Congress
7. Videos on licensing, copyrights, more (from Creative Commons)

Curriculum

1. Common Sense media
2. K-8, scaffolded, Ask a Tech Teacher (with projects)

Cyberbullying

1. Bullied to Death--a true story of a teen who commit suicide over cyberbullying
2. Calling my Childhood Bully–a video (7 min.)
3. Caught in the Middle: A Cyberbullying Tale–PDF download book
4. Cyberbully–hour long video from CrimeTimeTV
5. Cyberbully–90-minute movie
6. Cyberbullying video–from BrainPop Jr; a good primer on the topic
7. Cyberbullying--geared for 5th grade and up; includes common questions students may ask and answers
8. Cyberbullying—BrainPop
9. Cyberbullying—what is it
10. Think Time: How Does Cyberbullying Affect You--a hard-hitting short video that hits all the important points of cyberbullying

DigCit (General)

1. Carnegie Cadets—practice DC
2. Digital presence
3. Internet sources
4. O2–Keeping Kids Safe
5. Videos–general collection from CommonCraft
6. What is DigCit–told by a student

Digital Communications

1. Facebook, YouTube, Texting: Rules of the Road for Kids

Digital footprint

1. Digital Footprint
2. Digital footprint—clean it up
3. Digital footprints
4. Digital Life 101
5. Digital Life—parody video
6. Flame Fart Kid—Digital Rep
7. Online reputations
8. Protecting Online Reputations
9. What’s a digital dossier (footprint)

Digital privacy

1. Information Privacy
2. Post to be private
3. Princess who knew how to UYN–video
4. Privacy on the internet
5. Webonauts

Digital rights and responsibilities

1. Digital Passport
2. Digital rights—sharing info

Digital Search/Research

1. Basic search tips–from Google
2. BrainPop Internet sources
3. Citation Machine
4. Internet searches
5. Power Search
6. Remix
7. Websites—how to evaluate sources

Fair use/Public domain

1. A Fair(y) Use Tale

Image copyright

1. Google Images—reverse image search (drop an image onto the page and search)
2. Image edit exposure tool
3. Image Edited? Check here
4. Is This Picture Real?
5. Everything is a remix
6. Tineye—reverse image search

Images–free

1. Free Photo
2. Morgue File
3. Open Clip Art
4. Open Photo
5. Smithsonian Wild
6. Stock Exchange
7. Wiki Images

Internet Hoaxes

1. Fake baseball blog--well done
2. Hoax or not?
3. Save the tree octopus

Internet safety

1. Brainpop—online safety
2. Clicky’s internet safety
3. Clicky’s Netsmart Kids
4. Clickys’s II Netsmart Kids
5. Computer safety
6. Digital Safety– Informational guide to staying safe online, includes search engine safety, scams, and identity theft.
7. Faux Paws Internet Safety
8. Garfield internet safety
9. Hector’s World Internet safety videos
10. Internet safety
11. Internet safety Dance Video
12. Internet safety games
13. Internet safety quiz
14. Internet Safety Undersea Adventure
15. Internet safety video–day in digcit’s life
16. Internet safety videos
17. Internet safety—BrainPop Jr
18. Internet safety–read-to-you book
19. Mirror Image–free download–about answering an online modeling job–7/8th grade
20. My Online Neighborhood–video by CommonSense Media
21. Netsmart KidsOnline Safety
22. Netsmart Kids–the Princess
23. NetSmartKids–read-to-you–net safety
24. Netsmartz internet safety rap
25. NSTeens
26. Online Safety Quiz
27. Online Safety Quiz II
28. Online safety video
29. Safe surfing ebook—read to you
30. Safe tech use–video
31. Safety Land game
32. Survivors on Online Treachery
33. Teens Talk Back
34. These six videos from kids like you
35. Welcome to the Web

Netiquette

1. Discussion Board Netiquette — video
2. Netiquette — made in Powtoons
3. Netiquette Basics — short video; no sound
4. Netiquette for beginners — video
5. Netiquette: Playing Nice on the Web — video
6. Netiquette Rules — a video by 4th graders
7. Student email netiquette — video
8. You Can’t Take it Back

Online Ads

1. Admongo–explore, discover and learn about online ads while playing a game

Online plagiarism

1. Clicky’s stolen song
2. Hoax or not?
3. Plagiarism video

Passwords

1. Broken Friendship
2. Password creator—3 steps
3. Password Rap
4. Passwords—how secure is yours

Social media

1. #Hashtag You’re It
2. Hello? Put down your phone–we are obsessed with social media
3. this video on email and IM
4. Social Media Revolution–video; great music
5. Social Media for Teachers–a simple guide for getting started using it in the classroom

Stranger Danger

1. Clicky II

Texting

1. It can wait — video showing simulation of driver distracted by texting
2. Texting etc–Chicken Road YouTube
3. Safe texting–video
4. Texting–a game that gauges your distraction while driving and texting
5. Texting While Walking–from the NYT, a video op-ed
6. The Last Text –video
7. The Unseen — video simulating distracted driver
8. Wait for it — very sad video about texting and driving

For a complete Digital Citizenship curriculum for K-8 with 17 topics. 46 lessons. 46 projects. A year-long curriculum that covers everything you need to discuss on internet safety and efficiency, check out K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum.