Digital Citizenship
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Photo credit: Public domain pictures This is a great list from Deb Ng , founder and former owner of the Freelance Writing Jobs. I thought hard about what she’d written to see if I could add anything, enhance or disagree.
Plagiarists take note ... A screengrab from Liz Fielding's blog Hurrah for the internet, which has unmasked and brought down another plagiariser: in this case a romance "writer" going under the name of Kay Manning. Her uncovering came courtesy of a crack team of authors: first Liz Fielding, who posted about a short story of hers which she'd discovered had been plagiarised . "All Kay Manning has done is change the names of the characters, change the location and minor details," wrote Fielding. "Why, I cannot imagine, since she's giving it away free.
Goal and overview Goal: The overall goal for this adventure is to help you understand how you project yourself to world on the Internet. Specifically, we want to help you: learn more about the many ways in which you leave a trail of your presence on the web understand how your presence is often permanent and beyond your ability to change or delete and, on the positive side, how these facts provide you an opportunity to create a positive, on-going public presence about yourself as a digital citizen Situation : Much of what you do online leaves ongoing traces of our activities on the Internet. Every day most of us contribute to an evolving public presentation of who we are that anyone can see and that we cannot erase. We might think we are at home on our laptops, cell phones or iPad,s communicating with just a few people on our Friend's list.
By Yalda T. Uhls With tablets, laptops, apps, and online games, there’s great promise in technology to inspire and excite students to learn with digital tools.