120+ Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics

Here’s a long list of websites to address Digital Citizenship topics you teach in your classroom:

Avatars

to promote digital privacy

1. Avatar 1–a monster
2. Avatar 2–Lego you
3. Avatar 3–animal
4. Tellagami–a video avatar
5. Vokis
6. 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. Ask a Tech Teacher

Cyberbullying

1. Bullying—Watch this (videos)
2. Cyberbullying video
3. Cyber-bullying–5th grade
4. Cyber-bullying—BrainPop
5. Cyberbullying—what is it
6. Think Time: How Does Cyberbullying Affect You

DigCit (General)

1. Brainpop Digital Citizenship
2. Carnegie Cadets—practice DC
3. Digital presence
4. Internet sources
5. Internet—what is it–video
6. O2–Keeping Kids Safe
7. Videos–general collection from CommonCraft
8. 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 footprints—the facts
5. Digital Life 101
6. Digital Life—parody video
7. Online reputations
8. Protecting Online Reputations
9. What’s a digital dossier (footprint)

Digital privacy

1. Information Privacy
2. Password Bird
3. Post to be private
4. Princess who knew how to UYN–video
5. Privacy on the internet
6. 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. Google course on searching internet
5. Internet searches
6. Power Search
7. Remix
8. 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. iSafe– A helpful resource completely centered around E-Safety Technology and Education
20. Mirror Image–free download–about answering an online modeling job–7/8th grade
21. My Online Neighborhood–video by CommonSense Media
22. Netsmart KidsOnline Safety
23. Netsmart Kids–the Princess
24. NetSmartKids–read-to-you–net safety
25. Netsmartz internet safety rap
26. NSTeens
27. Online Safety Quiz
28. Online Safety Quiz II
29. Online safety video
30. Safe surfing ebook—read to you
31. Safe tech use–video
32. Safety Land game
33. Survivors on Online Treachery
34. Teens Talk Back
35. These six videos from kids like you
36. Welcome to the Web

Netiquette

1. You Can’t Take it Back
2. quiz show game on Netiquette

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. Password creator—3 steps
4. Password Rap
5. Passwords—how secure is yours

Social media

1. #Hashtag You’re It
2. Look up–don’t let social media take over your life
3. Hello? Put down your phone–we are obsessed with social media
4. this video on email and IM
5. Social Media Revolution–video; great music

Stranger Danger

1. Clicky II

Texting

1. Texting etc–Chicken Road YouTube
2. Safe texting–video

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