Digital+Citizenship+Website

Digital Citizenship Website


 * Description:**

This description for this assignment was to create a website based on digital citizenship through the use of [|www.googlesites.com]. It was to include digital access and assistive technologies, digital communication, digital rights and responsibilities, and a reference page. All of these components encompass the definition of digital citizenship. The website was to target an audience an provide needed information pertaining to the components of digital citizenship. Through the use of multi-media, documents, and researched based information, the website was to help the audience understand why we need digital citizenship in technology.

[|My Digital Citizenship Website]


 * Process:**

Design a website using Google sites that I could use in class at school to teach about Digital Citizenship. Items to be covered were Digital Access, Digital Etiquette, and Rights and Responsibilities of users. Each topic needed its own page and required uploads of documents or videos that would enhance the actual website to give further insight on what Digital Citizenship entailed. Uploading videos was relatively easy, recording references and resources took a little extra time to place on different pages. I am not sure it this had to be included on both the page it was located plus an additional reference page, but that is how I laid out my website. Digital access had to deal with making sure all participants had or could have access to digital technology and especially the internet. Digital Etiquette dealt with the possibility of cyber bullying and cyber threats and the possibilities of other web related offenses. Rights and Responsibilities had to deal with what you were allowed to do while on-line, places you were allowed to visit and if you needed information from a site, the information was not allowed to just be copy ad pasted or plagiarized.




 * Reflection:**

Having never built a website before, this task seemed a bit challenging. It was fun in the overall experience of the work, but took a little longer to put together than I initially thought. I had only ever worked on building a Wiki page to save documents and things on for college courses, so a web site of my own was a different type of task. Once started though the google sites web page seemed easier to work with than the wiki as for loading document, videos and other such items. I found that you seemed to have better control over the web page without constantly loosing information as on the Wiki page. I am going to try and implement some sort of my web page into my course curriculum next year to see how my students will adjust to having more information put in their minds about what is allowed or not allowed while accessing the internet.


 * Resources:**

Google sites for Webpages (2010). Retrieved from: [|www.googlesites.com]