Digital+Citizenship+Website

__Description__ The Digital Citizenship Website was a class long project or assignment beginning from Week 1 and Ending Week 7. This website was to be designed by us independently and should contain 5 pages overall. The first page of the website had to be the home page or introductory page that gave an overall description of what digital citizenship was. The next three pages had to include digital citizenship topics such as equitable access, assistive technology, digital etiquette, digital communications, digital law and digital rights/responsibilities. The last page would be the resource page where we would list our resources using APA format. The purpose of this website was to inform users of digital citizenship. Of course we needed to establish who our audience was and what we wanted them to learn from our website. Other design issues such as; color, font, and layout was up to each of use to decide in how we wanted to present our information. __Process__ The process or method I choose to use to complete this project was my own. Digital Citizenship is something that I already teach in my classroom. I thought about the key areas or topics of concern in my classroom and I made them the focus of my website. The content pages were on Equitable Access, Digital Etiquette, and Digital Rights/Responsibilities. I felt that these topics were prevalent in my classroom and things that I saw students didn’t understand or didn’t know about. So I thought my website should be designed to help inform my students and their parents of these topics. I also thought it would be beneficial to include some examples of our assignments such as the Acceptable Use Policy, a link to a survey I created and links to other websites that I found useful. __Reflection__ At first I thought this assignment was going to be really hard and time consuming. It was rather time consuming but it wasn’t hard. A lot of the information that I put on my website came from my existing knowledge of the topics since I do teach it. I used some resources to help back my opinions and knowledge. I wanted to keep the website easy to read because I wanted to potentially use it in my classroom next year. I think the overall flow and language of the website is easy to read and easy to follow. I think my students and their parents would have no problem understanding the information presented. I did find myself struggling a little bit with the content in the fact that I don’t know if I met the expectation of the project from the instructor’s viewpoint. I know what I was trying to accomplish and I may have “dummy downed” the website a little to achieve my overall goal and I don’t think that was the overall goal of the assignment.

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