Course requirements
Grading
- Prepare. Prepare each week by reading/viewing/visting web materials required for that week.
- Create a great ePortfolio. Maintain a thoughtful, articulate, navigable and visually sensible ePortfolio.
- Participate. Add thoughtfully and articulately to the Google+ Community conversations as you meet the participation requirements (a minimum of one major post and three responses to colleagues’ postings each week).
- Create a great final project. Create a thoughtful and articulate project that applies what you are learning to your professional practice. I have sent correspondence to you about this, and provided examples that I hope you found inspiring. If your final project is an essay, then that is all you need to produce. If you are creating a project, like curriculum or a PowerPoint presentation, then you need to also create a reflective piece that explains the value of your project to you and the world of education. Suggested length: 3 pages.
We will have an on-going conversation about the quality (and quantity of your work). My goal is provide comments that allow you to raise the quality of your work, rather than judge you for doing work that we both know could be improved.
Weekly flow of activities
Directions are included with every week’s information. But generally speaking, there is a flow to most weeks that looks like this:
Assignment | Schedule | Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Read/view/visit | Saturday thru Wednesday | Read required readings, view and visit online materials |
| Discuss | Anytime during the week, but focusing on Wednesday through Saturday | Discussion begins with the questions I have identified, and progresses from there |
| ePortfolio posting | Anytime before Monday | 1 page using the thesis, development, conclusion format below |
Minimum posting requirements each week:
- One substantive post that directly addresses the week’s primary question. Please reference the materials. Suggested length- 1-3 paragraphs. APA referencing not required.
- Three responses to your colleagues’ posts.
You are free to raise other issues, but please do your best to relate them to the question of the week.
Semester Course Schedule
This is the week by week schedule for the course for the semester:
Wk # | Dates | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/15 - 1/21 | Course Overview, Starting the conversation |
| 2 | 1/22 - 1/28 | Part I: The Big Picture History of Digital Citizenship |
| 3 | 1/29 - 2/4 | Part I: The Big Picture: School Boards, Policy Development, and Character Education for a Digital Lifestyle |
| 4 | 2/5 - 2/11 | Part I: The Big Picture: Digital Footprints, and Digital Citizenship Beyond School |
| 5 | 2/12 - 2/18 | Catch up, reflection week No assignments |
| 6 | 2/19 - 2/25 | Part II: Tools, Skills, Resources Elements of Digital Citizenship |
| 7 | 2/26 - 3/4 | Part II: Tools, Skills, Resources Digital Citizenship Program Tools |
| 8 | 3/5 - 3/11 | Part II: Tools, Skills, Resources CommonSense Media Resources |
| 9 | 3/12 - 3/18 | Spring Break - No Class |
| 10 | 3/19 - 3/25 | Part III: Focus Topic Cyberbullying, Positive Cyber Behavior |
| 11 | 3/26 - 4/1 | Part III: Topics in Digital Citizenship Topic 2: Media Literacy |
| 12 | 4/2 - 4/8 | Part III: Topics in Digital Citizenship Topic 2: Model programs, student activities, other topics |
| 13 | 4/9 - 4/15 | 600 level students only: Student project Development begins |
| 14 | 4/16 - 4/22 | 600 level students only: Student project Development continues |
| 15 | 4/22 - 4/29 | 600 level students only: Project presentations via Google Hangout |
Citations, credits
World, in header [Photoshop created image]. (2011). Created by Larry Addington for Corwin Press. It is a modified version of the cover of my book Digital Community, Digital Citizen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.