This presentation was prepared for the Nebraska Distance Learning Association Conference in Omaha, NE on October 28, 2011.

1. INTEGRITY ONLINE
Infusing The Language of Integrity In An Online Class

2. MANAGING A DIGITAL
CULTURE
Definition = the customs, arts, social institutions, and
achievements of a particular nation, people, or other
social group
Question = How do we develop a the character of an
online class - enhancing citizenship and positive
growth?
How is culture changing in the context of a new
Public Square of communicating?

3. THE INTERNET IS
CALLING

4. INTEGRITY ISSUES
WWW .GOVTECHBLOGS.COM/SECURING_GOVSPACE/
“Security-conscious professionals are often stereotyped
as the equivalent of “Dr. No”
As cyber-space rapidly changes over the next decade,
we need a paradigm shift in thinking about employees'
virtual life.
Cyber-space activities are grabbing an ever-growing
influence over home and work life. Virtual life
intermingles with real life as never before, and the blurry
distinction between the two will become even grayer as
the 21st century progresses.”

5. INTEGRITY ISSUES
WWW .GOVTECHBLOGS.COM/SECURING_GOVSPACE/
“Despite the benefits of Web-based collaboration,
government employees face an exploding number of
opportunities to engage in dangerous cyber-activities. In my
new book, Virtual Integrity: Faithfully Navigating the Brave
New Web, I coin the phrase "integrity theft" to describe this
issue. I've seen some of the best and brightest lose
everything - their personal reputations, jobs, marriages or
families - by succumbing to these temptations. More often,
individuals develop bad cyber-habits that cripple their career
growth, harm the business or impact security in various
unintentional ways. In reality, integrity theft works as the
covert brother to identity theft; both can harm individuals,
businesses and governments.”

6. HOW DOES THE
INTERNET SEE YOU?

7. SEVEN HABITS
Communicate Integrity In New Ways to Gen. Y
Pledge Personal Online Integrity (even when no one is watching)
Protect Privacy
Seek Trusted Accountability In An Individualistic Culture
Balance Online and Offline Life
Practice Humble Authenticity In A Culture of Celebrities
Become an Ambassador for Good

8. MANAGING AN ONLINE
REPUTATION
Facebook profile / posts
Marketing to your Facebook ‘likes’ and email
subscriptions
Crowdsourcing - polling, data collection of a large
group, unspecified by traditional characteristics
eBay By using user generated feedback ratings, buyers and sellers were given reputations that helped other users make purchasing and selling decisions. A
countervailing service is emerging which exposes reputation information suppressed by online reputation management companies. [14]

9. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING /
NOT SAYING?
What is your website, online class, or social
network saying about your online integrity?
True online integrity comprises the personal and
professional inner sense of your online existence
deriving from honesty, consistency and
uprightness of character.

10. TRACKING DOWN
ANYONE (HTTP://LIFEHACKER.COM/329033/)
Google Your Name / Create A Google Alert
Look up anyone's home address / phone # at ZabaSearch, a creepily-
comprehensive people search engine.
Pipl digs up information about a person Google often misses, supposedly
by searching personal web pages, press mentions, social networks, and
Amazon wishlists.
Job-centric search engine ZoomInfo aggregates people and company
information in one place to help candidates find the right job, but also
provides info from online sources

11. WHAT ABOUT YOU IS
NOT DIGITAL?

12. ONLINE DISCUSSIONS -
TEACHING MOMENTS
Share information - keep the main thing the main
thing
Discussions are for learning, not self expression
Forums are for connecting thought, critical thinking
A learning community needs to keep focus on the
main thing
Discussions empower the individual voice

13. DEALING WITH BULLIES
AND SMACK TALK
Develop perspective
It's easy to critique or mock.
The web is crawling with anonymous overcaffeinated
surfers expressing frustration.
Talking smack puts people in a position of power.

14. 21ST CENTURY ISSUES
Digital Access - the Digital Divide
Digital Commerce
Digital Community / Privacy / Security
Digital Literacy
Digital Etiquette
Digital Rights / Responsibilities

15. DIGITAL ACCESS
Do all students have equitable access in your class?
(different platforms, blocking software)
How can one overcome boundaries to access?
(uploads / downloads / communication methods)

16. DIGITAL COMMERCE
Buying / selling online - digital ethics
usernames / passwords / privacy protection
eBay, iTunes, Amazon, shopping online
credit issues (students 8-24 yrs. old spend $196 Billion
each year in e-commerce)

17. DIGITAL
COMMUNICATION
phones, wikis, blogs, texting, chats, skype, facetime,
webcams, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter
How do we teach digital communication skills?
How can we practice effective digital communication
skills in an online class setting?

18. DIGITAL LITERACY
Teachers need to keep up / lead the discussion.
We must find new methods of evaluating literacy
online.
We must communicate high standards of online
behavior.

19. DIGITAL ETIQUETTE
We must emphasize right from wrong behaviors
We need to encourage the practice of distinguishing
right from wrong
Help students understand consequences of high
standards of digital etiquette
Understanding consequences of violating digital
etiquette

20. BUILDING A LEGACY
CAN BE A LIFETIME
PROCESS. DESTROYING
A LEGACY CAN BE A
MOMENT’S DECISION

21. DIGITAL RIGHTS /
RESPONSIBILITIES
Legal rights and restrictions governing our use
Respect for digital property
Creativity / Development of Projects
Hacking / Stealing Issues
Personal Protection

22. PLAGIARISM ISSUES
Paraphrased someone’s sentence structure of
ideas or words without someone else’s writing.
giving credit. • Using so many ideas or
• Writing out a verbatim words from a single
quotation without using source that they make up
quotation marks. the majority of your
• Citing a source paper, whether or not
incorrectly. you provide citations.
• Making some changes to
words, but keeping the

23. RESPECT FOR PROPERTY

24. SECURITY
Protecting personal information
Preventing phishing
Preventing identity theft, online stalking
Preventing virus contamination

25. QUESTIONS
what will learning need to look like in the future?
what will online teaching need to look like in the
future?
how will a learning management system provide
interaction in the future?

26. QUESTIONS
Are your students aware of the problems / issues
related to being a digital citizen?
What ethical problems should students prevent?
What ethical problems should a teacher prevent?

27. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

28. REFINING ONLINE
RELATIONSHIPS
help students consider the difference between
online and real-life friendships
explore the benefits and risks of online chat
through a variety of scenarios based on real-life
stories
openly discuss / complete and sign a checklist for
safe online chatting.

29. SECURITY / TRUST
Who can you trust?
Can others trust you?
Privacy of Information
Terms / Issues: Spam, Phishing, Identity Theft

30. PRIVACY ISSUES
Sharing
Posting
Commenting
SSN, DOB, Address, Passwords

31. DEVELOPING AN ONLINE
COMMUNITY
Encourage quality thought / critical thinking
Emphasize 21st Century Skills: Teamwork,
Leadership, Decision Making, Time Management

32. BARRIERS TO ONLINE
COMMUNITIES
One person is a discussion dominator, intimidating
other participants
The Inquisition type question
Rudeness, or the interpretation of
rudeness....statements without facial interpretation

33. WORKING IN A
CONNECTED CULTURE
Communication via chatting, texting, sharing, in unprecedented ways.
talking to parents by cell phones
forming friendships online
gametime online.
Do we new codes of conduct to enhance
responsible and ethical use? largely absent online.
And they learn about their responsibilities to the
online community as a whole, and how to be active
members of this connected culture.

34. WORKING IN A
CONNECTED CULTURE
Anonymous nature of online communication can
lead to saying / doing out of the ordinary behavior.
The instructor’s infusion of ethical digital behavior
can be highly influential.

35. RESPECTING CREATIVE
WORK
Respecting the rights of others’ creative work
Exploring topics of copyright and fair use.
Reflecting on the ethics of using sources of
information.
Celebrating the role of being a 21st-century
creative artist.

36. EXPLORING YOUR
DIGITAL FINGERPRINT
What is your personal style in managing an online
class?
How are you marketing / promoting ...
learning style, career goals, further research
the idea of being a ‘life long learner’ - not just
getting an assignment completed

37. PROMOTING DIGITAL
ETIQUETTE
Developing an awareness of how your digital path
effects yourself and others
Developing a respect toward the rights of others’
digital content

38. KOHLBERG’S MORAL
DEVELOPMENT THEORY
Pre-Moral - following the rules in fear of punishment,
or in hopes of a reward
Conventional - following the rules because you want
to fit in, not be seen as ‘abnormal’
Post Conventional - following the rules to make a
positive difference, contributing to a better society

39. KOHLBERG’S MORAL
DEVELOPMENT THEORY
Pre-Moral - following the rules in fear of punishment,
or in hopes of a reward
Conventional - following the rules because you want
to fit in, not be seen as ‘abnormal’
Post Conventional - following the rules to make a
positive difference, contributing to a better society

40. EDUCATOR’S INFLUENCE
UPON CULTURE
Technology use in American Culture tends to be ‘self
promoting’ leading to increased narcissism
Educators need to own the “Long Term View” of
technology use = “principled participation in the
public square”
Engaging students to critically think long term, not
short term, about their technology use

41. CREATING A MISSION
STATEMENT

42. CREATING A MISSION
STATEMENT
“I am a seventh grader, a life long learner, hoping to
be a police officer.”
“I am a daughter, sister, and granddaughter, planning
to become veterinarian.”

43. YOUR ONLINE
REPUTATION...
your appearance
your verbal / nonverbal skills
your ability to communicate well
your grades, accomplishments, achievements
your ‘likes’ (Facebook), your pursuits of interests

44. RIGOR IN
RELATIONSHIPS
pursuing what is good, a curriculum that
not what is questionable promotes outcome of
character, not merely
promotion of critical test scores
thinking
activities that promote
decision making

45. MISSOURI LAW
REPEALED

46. ONLINE DISCUSSION
TIPS
I appreciate John’s Thank you, Manuel, for
insight into... sharing...
Great point, Angela! I had not thought about
Have you that, Katie. I wonder ....
considered....?
Building on Dustin’s
statement that....

47. DISCUSSION
STRATEGIES
Be considerate Repeat classmate’s
name
Ask questions
Compliment a
Avoid sarcasm, slang, classmate
jargon
When disagreeing,
Listen to all ideas state... I respectfully
presented disagree
Stay open minded Do not use all caps

48. ONLINE COURSES CAN...
Allow procrastination to
become an embedded
habit
Correct procrastination -
assisting students to
become more scheduled
Assist students to
become more goal
directed

49. Encourage students and families to secure privacy
information on the following:
1.Secure Your Friends List
2.Secure Your Profile Page
3.Secure Your Account Settings
4.Secure Your Privacy Settings
5.Secure the Miscellaneous Bits

50. TAKING THE INITIATIVE
VS. BYSTANDER AFFECT
doing nothing allows it doing nothing allows a
to continue victim to be even more
alone
doing nothing gives
permission that you
approve of the
inappropriate
doing nothing gives the
power to the
inappropriate

51. ITUNES RESOURCES

52. RESOURCES
Great Schools: http://www.greatschools.org/special-education/health/823-understanding-bullying-and-
its-impact-on-kids-with-learning-disabilities-or-ad-hd.gs?page=1
Common Sense Media http://www.commonsense.com http://www.commonsense.com/
educatorblog/
Teacher’s Lounge http://teacherslounge.editme.com/
Digital Citzenship: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net
Building a Digital Citizenship Program: http://www.slideshare.net/abaralt/building-a-digital-citizenship-program-presentation
Collaborize the Classroom

53. RESOURCES
Burlington High Principal: http://
www.patrickmlarkin.com (@ghprincipal)
Distance Education.org (http://www.distance-
education.org)