Digital+Citizenship+Welbpage+Summary


 * Digital Citizenship Webpage Summaries**

This webpage was created to help teachers and students learn more about digital citizenship. While the main webpage gives an introduction to what digital citizenship is, I broke the webpage down into seperate pages that focus on many different aspects of digital citizenship. For the first page, which focused on digital laws and responsibilities I wanted to create a webpage that would show students in all grades how to cite properly. Citations are often an area in which students struggle because of the specific requirements for each type of citation, whether it is a book, movie, webpage, video, etc. This can be dauting when one adds in the different types of citation that are available depending on what type of research is being done. I remember feeling overwhelmed by this when I was in high school many years ago, but the resources that are now available to students to help them cite properly really take the guesswork out of citing. This website has links to other websites, a pamphlet that can be printed out for teachers and students to use as a reference, and videos that give visual demonstrations on how to cite properly. The second webage I created focused on digital access and ensuring that all students have equitable access to technology. For this assignment I provided teachers and students with a list of the types of assistive technologies that are availabel for use in the classroom to ensure that all students are able to complete the same work. lI found in my Survey Monkey survey that many teaches didn't know how to use assistive technologies or even know what types of assistive technologies were available. I wanted to provide links in my webpage that would help them understand this a little better. Because many teachers also stated in their survey results that their administrators were willing to learn more about assisitve technologies if they knew where to look my hope is that this webpage can also be of use to school leaders.This webpage has many different tools available, including links to other webpages that offer information on assistive technologies available for the blind and hearing deficient and videos on assistive technologies available. The last webpage that I developed is designed to help teachers and students learn about different types of technology that can be used to help in presentations to enhance what is being said. Because we are living in such a global society it is really important that everyone, regardless of their academic goals, knows how to use technology. Any teacher who does not do this is doing their students a disservice, as the workforces as well as colleges expect prospective students to be familiar with this technology. Students who are already fluent with web applications and presentation tools have a clear advantage over those students who do not know how to use them. In this website I added links for students and teachers to types of web applications that could be used in the classroom, a power point on how to properly use Facebook in the classroom, and videos on how to create a powerpoint. To see my Digital Citizenship webpage click here. For the first webpage on digital responsibilities I tried to locate as many informational websites and videos as possible in order to help students and teachers learn how to effectively reference their work. I not only wanted to find links to other webpages I also wanted to find as different forms of media to help students and teachers understand how to cite properIy. For this reason I also included videos on my webpage.During this process found while doing this that there were many things I still needed to learn about how to properly reference material, so this was as beneficial for me as it will hopefully be for other students and teachers. For the second webpage I also wanted to find as many different types of media as possible to help teachers and students with different learning styles learn about equitable access. I looked for webpages on assistive technologies available for hearing loss and visual impairment so that teachers and district staff could use this information to make informed decisions about what to purchase. During my research I found that there was a ton of information that I did not know about assistive technologies. Out of the three webpages we created this one was the one I felt I learned the most from. For the last webpage I, again, wanted to find information that was presented in a variety of different ways so that people had options on how to learn about digital etiquette. I wanted to first give students and teachers ideas on the types of technology availabe for them to use because I feel that is something people who do not know a lot about technology struggle with. I also found a great powerpoint that gives teaches a step-by-step presentation on how to use the popular social networking site Facebook as a classroom tool. In addition I added videos that give instructions on how to create a basic power point as well as why it is so important to use technology in the classroom. From this assignment I felt validated in many ways: through the courses I have taken in this master's program I have learned so much about technolgy and I wanted to share my knowledge with other colleagues and students so that they can also use technology to become 21st century learners. This project was incredibly challenging but, as I stated previously, also incredibly validating. I am amazed at how much I have learned over the course of this master's degree program. When I began I could barely create a powerpoint, and now I am fluent with a lot more web applications and tools to enhance my classroom activites. The first webpage I created was extremely important to me because I have students who struggle when it comes to citing. Because properly citing work is such an important thing to do regardless of whether what is being cited is online or not I wanted to give students and teachers a go-to website where they could learn why it is important to cite, how to do so properly, and also provide links to information on the different types of citation. This alleviated the problems that come up when trying to sift through material to find what one is really looking for. Hopefully this will serve as a beneficial tool for teachers and students when trying to figure out how to cite.I know that many teachers that I work with will use this website in their classroom as a tool during instruction and I also plan to do so as well. Students must learn that they cannot "borrow" work without citing it properly. The second webpage I created on assistive technologies was extremely basic in nature. I did this on purpose because I feel as though the topic of assistive technologies can be extremely overwhelming if one does not know anything about them. I didn't want to delve too deeply into one specific type of assistive technology because I felt creating basic information on many of the types available could serve as a springboard for teachers to go out and look for more information on an assistive technology they are specifically interested in. I had absolutely no idea what assistive technologies were available before creating this webpage, so I can say with absolute certainty that I learned the most new information while working on this webpage. It was overwhelming to see all that was out there but it was also great to see how many different types of technology are available. Technology is so beneficial and can serve so many different purposes, and my hope is that teachers and administrators will learn something new about how to help their students from this webpage. The last page I created dealt with digital etiquette and technology. Prior to delving into that, however, I wanted to provde teachers and students with some ideas on how to incorporate technology into their projects and presentations. Many students know how to use basic presentation tools such as power point but they do not know about many of the other types of web applications available. I wanted to give them a glimpse into some other tools available to create cutting edge, innovative presentations. After doing this I foind a couple great videos that present how to create a power point and why digital technology is so important. These videos are clear and concise and my hope is that they will prove beneficial and informative to anyone who watches them, whether it is a student or teacher. I also foind a great power point that discusses with teaches how to use Facebook as a tool for creating class forums. I hope that teachers understand after watching this power point that Facebook has many capabilities other than simply as social networking site.
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