This document introduces an instructional technology team that created a digital citizenship course and e-book for educators. The team consists of 25 classroom teachers who train other educators throughout the county on technology integration. They researched and wrote content on topics like digital etiquette, cyberbullying, copyright, and social media to educate teachers and students on appropriate online behavior. The course was created in Edmodo and aims to provide free and easy professional development for teachers to effectively teach digital citizenship. The document provides an overview of the course modules and content.

1. Teaching Digital
Citizenship 101

3. About My Team:
I have an incredible Robyn
Dilmore
Tom
Price
Instructional Technology team Edmodo:
Mrs.
Dilmore
Edmodo:
Mr.
Tom
Price
consisting of 25 classroom Twi1er:
@msdilmore
Twi1er:
@flscienceteach
teachers.
On top of their regular teacher
Candace
Gautney
roles, they train throughout the Edmodo:
Mrs.
Gautney
county on equipment, programs, Twi1er:
@cgautney
new ways to implement
technology, and presenting and
participating in two Technology Stephen
Veliz
Staci
Stephens
Edmodo:
Mr.
Stephen
Veliz
Edmodo:
Mrs.
Stephens
Summits over this summer Twi1er:
@stephenveliz
Facebook:
emphasizing the use technology h1p://on.C.me/OMfQZL
in our county.
In addition, the pictured team
members researched and Melissa
Olson
contributed to the writing of the Edmodo:
Mrs.
Olson
digital citizenship Edmodo Twi1er:
@melissa9801
course and eBook.
Jessica
Titze
Tim
Girard
Edmodo:
Mrs.
Jessica
Titze
Edmodo:
Mr.
Tim
Girard
Twi1er:
@Jtzej
Twi1er:
@girard_Jm

4. Our Project – Work in Progress
² Young families and professional development
² Miss out on professional development opportunities
² Professional development online
² Flexibility with in learning
² Free, easy, and effective
² (Edmodo)
² Our project – Create a digital citizenship course and
interactive E-book for educators.

5. Rules and Compliance:
² Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
compliance means that schools and libraries are
filtering their Internet services and have
implemented formal Internet safety policies also
frequently known as “acceptable use policies” (AUP).

6. Protecting Children in the "
21st Century Act
² We needed to make sure that we were compliant
with Internet safety policy to provide education for
minors about appropriate online behavior on social
networking websites and cyberbullying awareness
and response.

7. What we currently use:
Source: http://securecontenttechnologies.com/iboss.html
Source: http://www.ops.org/middle/mcmillan/
CommonSenseMediaOmahaEvent/tabid/400/
Default.aspx
Source: http://cie.sfchron.com/sfc_nes_portal/
Source http://www2.wacoisd.org/lakeair/STUDENTS.html

8. So what’s missing?

9. Our Course: Digital
Citizenship 101
² Created in Edmodo.
² Created by teachers
from all grade levels.
² (Elem., Middle, High)
² Mission: To expose
teachers to free and
easy professional
development that
deals with digital
citizenship so they can
teach it effectively.

10. Intro to Digital
Citizenship
² Introduction to digital
citizenship
² Teaching digital
citizenship
² Our students as
“digital natives”

11. Digital Natives
² What is a digital
native?
² What is a digital
immigrant?
² Are there advantages
and disadvantages?

12. Digital Etiquette
² What is digital etiquette?
² What is e-mail netiquette?
² To text or not to text

13. Netiquette
Core rules to follow:
² Rules of
communication
² Golden Rule
² Teaching netiquette at
a young age.
² Habits to break.
² Check List – For your
computer.

14. Connectivity
• The need/urge to stay
connected.
• What is a safe network?
• How do students
connect to networks?
• Online identity
• Passwords
• Online environment vs.
reality

15. Copyright, Sources,
& Plagiarism
² Copyright – What it is?
² Sources
² How to site them?
² Good sources v. Bad
sources
² Plagiarism
² Intentional and
Accidental.
² Creative Commons

16. Cyberbullying
² Comparing cyberbullying
with regular bullying.
² Recognizing cyberbullying
when it happens.
² What to do when you
encounter cyberbullying?

17. Social Media
² Anonymity within
social media.
² Disclosing too much in
social media.
² Moderation with social
media.
² Repercussions of your
behavior within social
media
² Digital Footprint

18. Digital Footprint
² What is your digital
footprint?
² How does this apply
to everyone.
² Making students
aware of their “digital
footprint” through the
teaching of digital
citizenship.
² You can’t erase your
digital footprint.
² Don’t let this be your
Kryptonite.

19. Schools, Parents &
Supervision
• Children should always
be supervised not
matter the location.
• Open line of
communication.
• Model being a digital
citizen.
• Expose parents to
proper education of
digital citizenship. The
teaching does not end at
school.

20. Digital Certificate
² Boost student
confidence.
² Create a sense of
accomplishment.
² Create a certificate for
students. Earn a
digital citizenship
badge.

24. JOIN GROUP CODE 1PBSQY to view the digital
citizenship course. Please understand that this is a
sample course. Assignments will not be graded in
this sample course. You are free to use the materials
within this course as long as you give Leon County
Schools, FL credit for the course content creation,
and the artist, Hank Hodges, credit for any
illustrations in the course and presentation.