What's New for December 2022

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Digital Citizen News
We have created monthly newsletters for the last five school years, and we are starting Year 6. Browse all 51 issues here!
Each month takes on several Digital Citizenship topics and provides a poster that you can print and post.
Each month takes on several Digital Citizenship topics and provides a poster that you can print and post.
Read Our Digital Citizen Blog
We created a blog to keep up with Digital Citizenship
information that we find between issues of our newsletter.
The blog has articles about different areas of Digital Citizenship, and links to other sites with resources.
The blog has articles about different areas of Digital Citizenship, and links to other sites with resources.
Downloadable/Printable Resource
ISTE (The International Society for Technology in Education
- https://www.iste.org)
is constantly reviewing and revising its standards
around digital citizenship. This new poster
provides information about the Digital Self ,
and how one can
be a Digital Agent ,
and a Digital Interactor.
Download it, print it,
hang it up at your school, and distribute it to others.
added 10-30-2017
Downloadable/Printable Resource
This poster, Don't Be An Internet Troll,
describes the things that Internet trolls do to annoy other Internet users.
Download it, print it,
hang it up at your school, and distribute it to others.
added 10-16-2017
Downloadable/Printable Resource
An Inspirational Teacher Talks about Digital Citizenship
gives us some well spoken words about
what we need to be doing in the classroom.
Download it, print it,
hang it up at your school, and distribute it to others.
added 10-24-2017
Downloadable/Printable Resource
This poster, The Keys to Digital Citizenship,
shows eight elements that students should be aware
of to be good digital citizens.
Download it, print it,
hang it up at your school, and distribute it to others.
There are two versions of this poster available.
There are two versions of this poster available.
added 10-02-2017
Downloadable/Printable Resource
This poster, The Keys to Digital Citizenship,
shows eight elements that students should be aware
of to be good digital citizens.
Download it, print it,
hang it up at your school, and distribute it to others.
There are two versions of this poster available.
There are two versions of this poster available.
added 10-02-2017
Downloadable/Printable Resource
This poster, How NOT to be a CYBERBULLY,
has a list of positive things that students
can do to make sure that they don't become a cyberbully.
Download it, print it,
hang it up at your school, and distribute it to others.
added 09-20-2017
Downloadable/Printable Resource
Google has partnered with IKeepSafe.org to deliver the Be Internet Awesome program.
This downloadable document has information about the program, links to components of the program
and a fully ISTE approved Curriculum for teacher digital safety online.
added 06-09-2017
GST Web Resource
This interactive resource provides a series of yes/no questions to determine
how distracted you are.
GST Web Resource
This resource provides 17 real-world scenarios that can be used for sparking discussions about
Digital Citizenship topics and issues. Suitable for Middle or High
School students and for Faculty or Staff.
Downloadable/Printable Resource
The Digital Citizenship Pledge - a printable poster with a pledge created by GST RIC
that contains many of the key ideas of Digital Citizenship.
Suitable for printing and posting near your computer.
Downloadable/Printable Resource
The ISTE Standards for Digital Citizensip
- this printable handout compares the current
ISTE Standards for Students, Teachers, Administrators,
and Technology Coaches. Adapted from materials at
http://www.iste.org
Downloadable/Printable Resource
Be Safe Online - a printable poster created for our Digital Citizenship Initiative.
Print it on a color printer and posted in your classroom or in hallways of your school.
Other Web Resources
These web sites provide more in-depth information
about some of the nine main elements
of Digital Citizenship.
Click each button to visit the site.
Digital Law - Digital Security &
Digital Rights and Responsibilities
Digital Access - Digital Etiquette &
Digital Communication
Digital Literacy - Digital Wellness &
Digital Commerce
GST Web Resource
The Web Detective is an online resource created by
GST BOCES to help students learn
to evaluate the validity of web resources that they
may want to use for class room assignments. Students
may work alone or in teams to go through a checklist asking
them to evaluate various characteristics of a
web site such as its authority, currency, or coverage of a topic.
Downloadable/Printable Resource

Some Resources about Copyright and Fair Use
- You can download and print these resources for classroom use.
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
This one page chart is from
Tech & Learning Magazine.
Copyright Definitions from the University of Washington
Copyright Scenarios from the University of Washington
Downloadable/Printable Resource
SafeBook
- We love this poster from Fuzion Communications
(http://www.fuzion.ie).
It gives good advice about how to make sure that using Facebook is a Safebook experience.
We provide it here only to make it more convenient for our digital citizens to download. It remains its original copyright protection. You can download the original file in several different languages at http://www.fuzion.ie/safebook.
We provide it here only to make it more convenient for our digital citizens to download. It remains its original copyright protection. You can download the original file in several different languages at http://www.fuzion.ie/safebook.
GST Workshop
This workshop introduces the participant to the elements
that make up Digital Citizenship.
Participants will leave with a list of resources
they can use with their students in their buildings.