This document discusses digital citizenship and safety online. It emphasizes the importance of protecting personal information, using strong passwords, and being wary of strangers met online. The document also covers netiquette, respecting others, and using appropriate language. Additionally, it discusses copyright and plagiarism, noting that one should properly cite sources and not pass off others' work as their own. Overall, the key messages are to act responsibly online, respect others, and protect personal information and accounts.

1. Safety and Responsibility
Online
Shashauna Watson

2. Introduction
• Digital citizenship
• Safety on the computer
• Safety on the Internet
• Netiquette
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Plagiarism
• Reference

3. Ask yourself these questions
• How safe am I online?
• What information do I give online?
• Do I really know my online friends?

4. Become a Digital Citizen
• What is Digital Citizen
• Is the rule of
appropriate, responsible
technology use.
• How you act when you
are online

5. Respect, Educate and Protect (REPs)
• Respect yourself and Respect others
• Etiquette, access, law
• Educate yourself and connect with others
• Communicate, literacy and commerce
• Protect yourself and Protect others
• Rights and responsibility, safety(security), and health and
welfare

6. Safety on the Computer
• Protect your identity
• Protect your computer and
stay up to date with software
• Protect your accounts and
don’t choose obvious
password.
• Never use bad language or
send mean messages online.
• People online are not always
who they say they are.
• Report harassing harassing or
inappropriate behaviors.
• Do not open emails or
attachments from unknown.
• Do not send pictures of
yourself to strangers.

7. Internet Safety Rules
• Never give personal
information
• Do not meet in person
someone you met online
• Do not give password to
anyone
• Use a non-gender specific name
• Do not links or files from
people you do not know
• Never respond to email with
inappropriate materials
• Think before you post
• Respect other people online
• Be careful when meeting online
friends in person
• Protect yourself online

8. Netiquette
• What is netiquette?
• A guide to online communication
• Do not write in all caps
• IT IS LIKE YOU ARE SHOUTING AT THEM
• Use common abbreviation to shorten messages
• For example: btw- by the way

9. Netiquette
• Be specific, clear and precise.
Avoid a lengthy text
• Be careful what you post
online as a status or a
comment. It can be copy an
spread around.
• Be sure that the subject of
the email describe the body
o the email
• Read before you ask
• Think before you send a
email. You can never truly
delete them. They are saved
on a mail server.

10. Copyright and Fair use
• What is Copyright?
• in law, the right, belonging exclusively to the author or his
assignees to sell or produce multiple copies of
work, literature or work that conveys information or ideas.
• To give the author who create the work and
economic incentive o create new works
• Anything tangible can be copyrighted

11. Fair Use
• Fair use is the most significant limitation on the
copyright holder’s exclusive rights
• Individuals who wants to use copyrighted work must
weigh three factors
• Is the new work a copy of the original?
• Is the new work about and beyond the original?
• Is the use for educational or nonprofit purposes?

12. Plagiarism
• Are you using ones ideas, thoughts with consent or
authorization?
• Are you taking someone work and assuming it to be
your own?
• If your answers to the above questions are yes then
you are plagiarizing. This is an act that is punishable
by law and one should take great care in giving
reference/credits to the rightful owner of any work
or thoughts being used.

13. Reference
Ribble, M. (2013, September 08). Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship. Retrieved from Digital
Citizenship using Technology Appropriately: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Copyright. (2013, September 7). In Wikisource, . Retrieved 01:48, September 8,
2013, from http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/
Copyright&oldid=4577798
University of Maryland University College. (2011, January 28). Copyright and Fair Use in the UMUC Online or Face-to-Face
Classroom. Retrieved from University Of Maryland University College:
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/copyright.cfm