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I am a freshman at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia. I take many different classes. One class I take is computer fundamentals. Over the past few months my ninth grade class and I have been teaching seventh grade students about the nine aspects of digital citizenship through Google Lively.

Lively is a web-based virtual environment produced by Google Inc. This project was a great success and was worth our time. The young children had fun and learned how to behave online. Lively was a great te… Continue

Wiki Editing and Authentic Research
Digital Citizenship is expressed through nine different aspects. The lesson that I taught was Digital Security and Safety. Digital Security and Safety is how to be safe and secure on the internet. My sub-topic was elementary students. I researched information about how young students behave while on the internet. I learned that many children are unaware of the dangers of… Continue

Creative Commons is a website that provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. It allows people to share, remix, and reuse music, videos, and pictures for free. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that requires photographers permission to let the media be copied by others so they will not get in trouble for not giving the phot… Continue

Al Upton is a teacher in Australia. He was taking time to teach eight and nine year old children how to blog. By teaching them how to blog it improved their reading and writing. The children's parents were unaware of what blogging was and thought that it was endangering their children. One parent in particular called the police on this innocent man. The police took the case in to consideration and they investigated him. He was then forced to undo is rec… Continue