What's New for December 2022

We all live in a digital world! We are all digital citizens!
Here is our fourth issue for the new school year - December 2022 and also our FINAL issue!
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December 2022 Issue
We Welcome you back for November! Happy Holidays to you!



The last four pages of this issue provide the final four full-size posters created by students last year as part of our Poster Art Contest (for March, April, May and June 2023).
Here is our issue for November 2022 Here is the October 2022 issue
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November 2022 Issue
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October 2022 Issue
You can still get our September 2022 newsletter here or from our Newsletter page.
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September 2022 Issue
 
Get started with our Digital Citizenship Pledge. It contains keywords and concepts that you can discuss about digital citizenship. View the Pledge.
Here are links to the June issue and poster, and the May issue
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June 2022 Issue June 2022 Poster May 2022 Issue

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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.

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.
added 10-02-2017

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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.
added 10-02-2017

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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.