Here’s a long list of websites to address Digital Citizenship topics you teach in your classroom:
Avatars
to promote digital privacy
- Avatar 1–a monster
- Avatar 2–Lego you
- Avatar 3–animal
- Tellagami–a video avatar
- Vokis
- With comics, via Pixton — fee-based
Copyrights and Digital Law
- Copyrights–BrainPop video
- Copyright and Fair Use–Common Sense Media video
- Copyright Law Explained (fun video, informative, thorough)
- Copyright law curriculum
- Creative Commons
- Take the mystery out of copyrights–by the Library of Congress
- Videos on licensing, copyrights, more (from Creative Commons)
Curriculum
Cyberbullying
- Bullying—Watch this (videos)
- Cyberbullying video
- Cyber-bullying–5th grade
- Cyber-bullying—BrainPop
- Cyberbullying—what is it
- Think Time: How Does Cyberbullying Affect You
DigCit (General)
- Brainpop Digital Citizenship
- Carnegie Cadets—practice DC
- Digital presence
- Internet sources
- Internet—what is it–video
- O2–Keeping Kids Safe
- Videos–general collection from CommonCraft
- What is DigCit–told by a student
Digital Communications
Digital footprint
- Digital Footprint
- Digital footprint—clean it up
- Digital footprints
- Digital footprints—the facts
- Digital Life 101
- Digital Life—parody video
- Online reputations
- Protecting Online Reputations
- What’s a digital dossier (footprint)
Digital privacy
- Information Privacy
- Password Bird
- Post to be private
- Princess who knew how to UYN–video
- Privacy on the internet
- Webonauts
Digital rights and responsibilities
Digital Search/Research
- Basic search tips–from Google
- BrainPop Internet sources
- Citation Machine
- Google course on searching internet
- Internet searches
- Power Search
- Remix
- Websites—how to evaluate sources
Fair use/Public domain
Image copyright
- Google Images—reverse image search (drop an image onto the page and search)
- Image edit exposure tool
- Image Edited? Check here
- Is This Picture Real?
- Everything is a remix
- Tineye—reverse image search
Images–free
Internet Hoaxes
Internet safety
- Brainpop—online safety
- Clicky’s internet safety
- Clicky’s Netsmart Kids
- Clickys’s II Netsmart Kids
- Computer safety
- Digital Safety– Informational guide to staying safe online, includes search engine safety, scams, and identity theft.
- Faux Paws Internet Safety
- Garfield internet safety
- Hector’s World Internet safety videos
- Internet safety
- Internet safety Dance Video
- Internet safety games
- Internet safety quiz
- Internet Safety Undersea Adventure
- Internet safety video–day in digcit’s life
- Internet safety videos
- Internet safety—BrainPop Jr
- Internet safety–read-to-you book
- iSafe– A helpful resource completely centered around E-Safety Technology and Education
- Mirror Image–free download–about answering an online modeling job–7/8th grade
- My Online Neighborhood–video by CommonSense Media
- Netsmart KidsOnline Safety
- Netsmart Kids–the Princess
- NetSmartKids–read-to-you–net safety
- Netsmartz internet safety rap
- NSTeens
- Online Safety Quiz
- Online Safety Quiz II
- Online safety video
- Safe surfing ebook—read to you
- Safe tech use–video
- Safety Land game
- Survivors on Online Treachery
- Teens Talk Back
- These six videos from kids like you
- Welcome to the Web
Netiquette
Online Ads
- Admongo–explore, discover and learn about online ads while playing a game
Online plagiarism
Passwords
- Broken Friendship
- Password creator
- Password creator—3 steps
- Password Rap
- Passwords—how secure is yours
Social media
- #Hashtag You’re It
- Look up–don’t let social media take over your life
- Hello? Put down your phone–we are obsessed with social media
- this video on email and IM
- Social Media Revolution–video; great music
Stranger Danger
Texting
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.
Updated 4-21-16
Wow. Talk about resources. This could take days to go through! 8D
True. It’s a nice reference list for when you’re discussing a particular topic.