Shannon's+Digital+Citizenship+Ideas

A lot of citation lessons use plagiarism in a scary, accusatory way. I don't like that approach. I like the idea of helping students connect their work with lines of thought, scholarship, and inquiry-of leaving a trail of how and where they found useful information. But there's this big gray area of what common knowledge is. And common property now too. So thinking about the Creative Commons is interesting. Will they go there and not simply Google to get images, etc? As I create more opportunities for multi-modal work, this will become more of a concern.
 * **Fair Use/Copyright**

Mostly I'm not too concerned about this because everyone's an adult and I also use Moodle or MyCR, which are inherently private spaces where only our own class members can go to see any of our work. But I don't yet have an official/professional web presence--and so how to create one of these with portfolios of student examples is something I need to think about. I'm not really sure I inform them enough to get real informed consent if I wanted to post their work in a public way.
 * **Privacy**

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 * **Logistics and Access**

This is definitely important. And something I want to think about (and students to think about) is the difference between social and educational uses of the same kinds of technology. So, just because it's a blog does not mean we can have crankypants language there.
 * **Etiquette and Guidelines**

[|Digital Literacy Narrative Archives] This site is the home of an amazing project that any of us might want to do with our students. Cynthia Selfe, a professor at the Ohio State University, is collecting literacy narratives from people and creating a digital archive of these materials (for enjoyment, for research). There's an informed consent form for minors and for adults. The narratives can come in any form--print, audio, video, etc.

[|Netiquette (Digital Etiquette)] Here's a pretty cool lesson plan (grades 6-12) that discusses how to be courteous in digital spaces.

[|Taking the Mystery out of Copyright] This is an interactive digital lesson on the ins and outs of copyright produced by The Library of Congress. It's a cartoon. It looks appropriate for and appealing to younger students.

[|Copyleft] Yes, here I am linking you to Wikipedia. I think this concept is a pretty interesting one, and deserves to be part of copyright discussions. Some folks are willing to share their work with everyone, and don't want to get any money for it. Maybe students will want to promote this way of thinking and creating content that is intended to be remixed, reused, repurposed, and spread around.