Digital Citizenship

I decided to complete my Digital Citizenship Lesson on smarter searching and determining what sites are actually helpful/useful/trustworthy and which are not. I have noticed that this is on of my biggest challenged with using the internet to do research. Students have a difficult time searching Google. They don't know how to pick out the important search terms in a question and often end up with results that have nothing to do with what they are actually trying to find. The websites that come up also tend to become less reliable since their searches are not really on target. This leads to students feeling frustrated with their results.

It was a bit challenging working through all the materials online. I very much appreciated all the links, articles, videos, and other resources that were posted on the blog to go through. They were very helpful and I felt very informed. After going through them all, the biggest challenge was deciding which of the issues were most related to what I was seeing in my classroom and which would be the most helpful to address.

After talking with the librarian at my school, we came up with a lesson based on her previous work on teaching students how to search Google. She was able to help provide a starting point to the lesson. Using the many online resources we were given via the instructional blog, as well as an article from Educational Leadership, I was able to build a follow up lesson where students would need to evaluate websites in order to determine if they were credible or not. Using a Google Form for this activity, I would like to be able to integrate this form into research projects as just another step of the process. This way, anytime students were doing research online, they would have to go through the process of evaluating the site. Hopefully, overtime, students would get so used to doing this that they would do it in their head all the time, without me having to assign the Google Form.

Lesson: https://docs.google.com/a/edmonds.wednet.edu/document/d/1RwhNLYmU7wEC3FIB83gn3zfxzyY5uZTqAq0yRD_qQtU/edit?usp=sharing

Google Game:
https://docs.google.com/a/edmonds.wednet.edu/document/d/13OJSNwUTX4W4YgCMgOdw-UkjnsGrEEglyZPNQQm1o6s/edit?usp=sharing

Search Tips: https://docs.google.com/a/edmonds.wednet.edu/document/d/1dYGufyScPgJoC3o7kirGLL8Sbc7TVqWvfmaLu9-LebA/edit?usp=sharing

Digital Citizenship

I decided to complete my Digital Citizenship Lesson on smarter searching and determining what sites are actually helpful/useful/trustworthy and which are not. I have noticed that this is on of my biggest challenged with using the internet to do research. Students have a difficult time searching Google. They don't know how to pick out the important search terms in a question and often end up with results that have nothing to do with what they are actually trying to find. The websites that come up also tend to become less reliable since their searches are not really on target. This leads to students feeling frustrated with their results.

It was a bit challenging working through all the materials online. I very much appreciated all the links, articles, videos, and other resources that were posted on the blog to go through. They were very helpful and I felt very informed. After going through them all, the biggest challenge was deciding which of the issues were most related to what I was seeing in my classroom and which would be the most helpful to address.

After talking with the librarian at my school, we came up with a lesson based on her previous work on teaching students how to search Google. She was able to help provide a starting point to the lesson. Using the many online resources we were given via the instructional blog, as well as an article from Educational Leadership, I was able to build a follow up lesson where students would need to evaluate websites in order to determine if they were credible or not. Using a Google Form for this activity, I would like to be able to integrate this form into research projects as just another step of the process. This way, anytime students were doing research online, they would have to go through the process of evaluating the site. Hopefully, overtime, students would get so used to doing this that they would do it in their head all the time, without me having to assign the Google Form.

Lesson: https://docs.google.com/a/edmonds.wednet.edu/document/d/1RwhNLYmU7wEC3FIB83gn3zfxzyY5uZTqAq0yRD_qQtU/edit?usp=sharing

Google Game:
https://docs.google.com/a/edmonds.wednet.edu/document/d/13OJSNwUTX4W4YgCMgOdw-UkjnsGrEEglyZPNQQm1o6s/edit?usp=sharing

Search Tips: https://docs.google.com/a/edmonds.wednet.edu/document/d/1dYGufyScPgJoC3o7kirGLL8Sbc7TVqWvfmaLu9-LebA/edit?usp=sharing

Digital Citizenship Challenge

• What did you create, and why? The task was to explore curriculum related to teaching safety and good citizenship to students. The final task was to create two lessons on digital citizenship that you could use with your students. I created lessons for second graders on respect and responsibilty online as well as a lesson on strangers and safety rules in dealing with strangers online. I incorporated some of the materials provided in the Challenge.
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• What went well for you? It was great to have access to so many great resources that were gathered together for me to explore on this subject.

• What was challenging?

I am new to using Blogger, Google Docs, and I don't usually write lesson plans as I am a counselor so the challenge took me about 4 hours, not the three estimated.

• What did you enjoy?

I'm enjoying learning to use some of the technology at our fingertips that I have not previously understood.

• What ideas do you have for using this tool with your students, grade level, staff or to communicate with families?

I most likely will use these two lessons this year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SrRduFnHMX5P0XGUsrNQIPppVcifefHqblGo2TD5O9c/edit?usp=sharing

Digital Citizenship Challenge

• What did you create, and why? The task was to explore curriculum related to teaching safety and good citizenship to students. The final task was to create two lessons on digital citizenship that you could use with your students. I created lessons for second graders on respect and responsibilty online as well as a lesson on strangers and safety rules in dealing with strangers online. I incorporated some of the materials provided in the Challenge.
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• What went well for you? It was great to have access to so many great resources that were gathered together for me to explore on this subject.

• What was challenging?

I am new to using Blogger, Google Docs, and I don't usually write lesson plans as I am a counselor so the challenge took me about 4 hours, not the three estimated.

• What did you enjoy?

I'm enjoying learning to use some of the technology at our fingertips that I have not previously understood.

• What ideas do you have for using this tool with your students, grade level, staff or to communicate with families?

I most likely will use these two lessons this year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SrRduFnHMX5P0XGUsrNQIPppVcifefHqblGo2TD5O9c/edit?usp=sharing

Welcome! Directions for Blog Entry

Welcome!

This blog is the shared space for staff taking part in the Instructional Technology Online PD.  Through a series of creative and fun challenges you will build your own knowledge and skill using technology. The learning from each challenge can be used in your classroom with students, with your grade level/department or with your staff. Each challenge asks you to share your thinking on this group blog as a brief reflection. 

The reflection should capture your experience and your thinking about the challenge and the tool you explored. Please use ALL of these questions to help you as you write your blog posts and provide ample evidence in each of your answers to support the work you did: 

• What did you create, and why? 
• What went well for you?
• What was challenging?
• What did you enjoy? 
• What ideas do you have for using this tool with your students, grade level, staff or to communicate with families? 

Please use these questions as a starting point and add any other thoughts and ideas.

Refer to the chart below for help with selecting the correct label to tag your blog post.

Label for Blog	Challenge
Google	Google Classroom
	Google Drive
	Google Sites
	Google Forms
	Google Sheets
	Google Slides
	Google Draw
	Google Maps
	Google Calendar
	Google Earth
	Google Keep
Chrome	Chromebook Basics
	Chrome Apps & Extensions
Website	Classroom Website
Database	Elementary and Secondary District Databases
Arts & Crafts	Arts and Crafts
Digitial Citizens	Digital Citizenship
Assessment	Formative Assessment
Infograph	Infographics
Videos	Interactive Video
	PowToons
	WeVideo
Blog	Blog
SmartNotebook	SmartNotebook
Flipped Lesson	Flipped Lesson
Photo	Photo Management
Online Reading	Online Reading
SAMR	Lessons Redefined
Interactive Presentation	Interactive Presentation
Research	Research Skills

                        

Welcome! Directions for Blog Entry

Welcome!

This blog is the shared space for staff taking part in the Instructional Technology Online PD.  Through a series of creative and fun challenges you will build your own knowledge and skill using technology. The learning from each challenge can be used in your classroom with students, with your grade level/department or with your staff. Each challenge asks you to share your thinking on this group blog as a brief reflection. 

The reflection should capture your experience and your thinking about the challenge and the tool you explored. Please use ALL of these questions to help you as you write your blog posts and provide ample evidence in each of your answers to support the work you did: 

• What did you create, and why? 
• What went well for you?
• What was challenging?
• What did you enjoy? 
• What ideas do you have for using this tool with your students, grade level, staff or to communicate with families? 

Please use these questions as a starting point and add any other thoughts and ideas.

Refer to the chart below for help with selecting the correct label to tag your blog post.

Label for Blog	Challenge
Google	Google Classroom
	Google Drive
	Google Sites
	Google Forms
	Google Sheets
	Google Slides
	Google Draw
	Google Maps
	Google Calendar
	Google Earth
	Google Keep
Chrome	Chromebook Basics
	Chrome Apps & Extensions
Website	Classroom Website
Database	Elementary and Secondary District Databases
Arts & Crafts	Arts and Crafts
Digitial Citizens	Digital Citizenship
Assessment	Formative Assessment
Infograph	Infographics
Videos	Interactive Video
	PowToons
	WeVideo
Blog	Blog
SmartNotebook	SmartNotebook
Flipped Lesson	Flipped Lesson
Photo	Photo Management
Online Reading	Online Reading
SAMR	Lessons Redefined
Interactive Presentation	Interactive Presentation
Research	Research Skills