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Digital Citizenship Website



Description & Purpose

My digital citizenship website was created to solve problems in the area of digital citizenship. The website has three components: Illegal music downloads, Internet access on Delmarva, and A guide to Spanish accentuation. The home page of the website links to all of these sites. I designed the site under the name “El mundo digital,” which means A Digital World in Spanish. Thus, the design has a city skyline across the top of the page and appears contemporary. I’m hoping this style will capture my students’ attention and encourage them to read on. I chose these three topics because I felt they were the most dominant topics in the field of citizenship occurring in my area. This needs-based layout made it very easy to organize my web pages. I usually just described the issue, explained it in detail with research based conclusions, and finally offered the most realistic options for my readers.

Selection Analysis These three websites were chosen because of a direct need that I saw in my school. For illegal music downloads and Spanish accentuation, I performed informal research on my students. I polled them and discussed their needs and knowledge on these areas. From the outcome, I developed these two pages to educate my students on the legal and literate options in these topics. The setup was usually the same on the web pages. I generally identified the need for the website by addressing the issue, then provided some sort of explanation for the solution. I always gave my readers realistic options they could follow to correct the issue. For the Internet access website, I composed a survey of the questions that I wanted answered by all people living on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. This included students, parents, teachers, etc. From the results of the survey, I composed a website that gave an explanation of the underdeveloped high-speed internet infrastructure on the shore and proposed numerous options for solutions.

Please visit my website here: [|http://elmundodigital.wetpaint.com/]

Reflection I am very excited to have had the opportunity to investigate digital citizenship. Honestly, before constructing this website, I ha no idea digital citizenship even existed. As I’ve always been courteous and mindful of others online, I’ve never really given it any thought. Yet, I’ve learned so much reading and researching in the development of these three topics. Whereas, I may be socially aware, I’ve never thought about digital citizenship and the correlation in respecting others and giving privacy. Since I haven’t made these connections, I’m certain most my students have not.

As I constructed each website, I did so in a manner that would be practical and easy to use. I wanted my students to find the website interesting and useful. So, I made it contemporary and tried to keep the language short and concise. I even try to link to the World Wide Web when I can because I want to strive to make my students 21st century learners. I want them to do more than simply read about the concepts. I want them to use them, perhaps globally. Thus, for example, on one website, I give a practice activity where students can apply accents based on the rules and then check their answers right away. I think this experience has been exactly what I needed to open my eyes to the world of digital citizenship and to begin to open that of my students as well.

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