9 Elements of Digital Citizenship

This is an infographic that I made to list the 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship. These elements are not just for students to follow, but for educators as well to help keep everyone safe.

What are Infographics?

An infographic is a way to visually represent information. It is really beneficial for visual learners. All the information I will be including in this post can be reviewed in the video by Kathy Schrock.

Schrock provides steps to help organize the process of creating infographics:

• Select a layered based image editor like CANVA and Daz.
• Have students investigate different types of visuals.
• Have students research different topics they would like to create an infographic for.
• The next step is to create a rough draft of their infographic.
• One of the most important things that students must learn is about Creative Commons
• Next is to create and gather assets
• Following this the students must learn how to use fonts, color, and layouts
• The final step is to setup an organizational method

Schrock uses the LATCH method.

• Location
• Alphabet
• Time
• Category
• Hierarchy

Below I have attached the video by Schrock and some examples.

Copyright and Fair Use

When someone has a copyright symbol on their work it means that it cannot be used without their permission. One aspect of copyright I am not sure about is how you go about getting the permission to use the work when its copyrighted. I know the symbol that represents copyright is the c inside the circle kind of like the @ symbol. I have no idea what fair use is.

Robotics Competition

The video below is my reflection on volunteering with the First Tech Challenge. Hope you enjoy.

Sway vs. Nearpod

This link is for a podcast that I did where I discuss Sway and Nearpod which are two presentation software tools.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2r7Wb7KdTr8UWR2WDhlUmlLQWs

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else's work. This can be a piece of writing, a piece of music, or even using a picture without the proper permission. If we use something by someone else and cite it correctly, giving credit to the rightful owner, then we can use it without getting in trouble. Some schools even provide resources to help students to submit their work to check to make sure that everything is cited correctly, so that the student does not get in trouble in the future.

Something that I still do not completely understand about plagiarism is what pictures we can use or not when it comes to using pictures off the internet?


Update (3/19/2017):
Plagiarism can apply to a lot more than just writing a simple English paper. We have heard examples of it coming from the music business as well.

Something that the article said that I liked the way it was put is "therefore, plagiarism also defeats the university's goal of teaching students to write, not just copy," (Nine). When college students decide to use other people's work without taking credit it shows that they haven't learned much in class.

The article also talks about how some people worry about writing something that they may have read something from a long time ago, but it matches pretty well with something someone else says and then using it in ones paper. This is a common thing that happens when students write papers, but as long as the phrase dose not come off as too long and too close to what the original writer said then there usually is not a problem.

Here is a link to the article: http://integrity.ou.edu/files/nine_things_you_should_know.pdf