Digital+Citizenship+&+Cyber+Safety

Digi Teen: Digital Citizenship for Teenagers NetSmartz Workshop > **Our Goals** > **Educate** children on how to recognize potential Internet risks > **Engage** children and adults in a two-way conversation about on- and offline risks > **Empower** children to help prevent themselves from being exploited and to report victimization to a trusted adult
 * The **Digiteen™****Project** is a global hands-on project for middle and early high school students, (typically Grade 6-9, 11-15 year old) which was founded by Julie Lindsay (now in Beijing, China) and Vicki Davis (Camilla, GA USA) in 2008. This project studies digital citizenship with students researching current topics, writing a collaborative report on a wiki, and performing and documenting offline action educational projects to promote effective digital citizenship at their local schools. The purpose of the project is to educate on and promote effective Digital Citizenship and responsible online choices as well as immersing students into an educational community for learning and collaborating.
 * NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. The program is designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations, NetSmartz entertains while it educates.

__**Copyright Information Resources**__ DP's Lair Copyright Confusion Copyright and Fair Use: Lesson Plans for High School, College, and Graduate Education Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons
 * Contains music video "Don't Copy That Floppy 2" as well as downloadable teacher resources related to the various copyright laws.
 * A great informational wikispace dedicated to explaining copyright laws and Fair Use. Also contains teaching resources.
 * Provided by the Media Education Lab - part of the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University.
 * Provided by the Media Education Lab - part of the School of Communications and Theatre at Temple University.
 * Contains a PowerPoint presentation, lesson plans, and a variety of additional resources to promote copyright clarity.
 * Contains a database of freely-usable media files.
 * From the website: The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.