Digital+Citizenship+Website

Digital Citizenship Website




 * __Description__**

Our major project for this class involved our creation of a website that would be a hub of information for a certain audience in regards to Digital Citizenship. Digital Citizenship itself is the encompassing factor of all that is placed on the members of the technological, online, 21st Century world.

On our website, we were to go in depth of three different facets of Digital Citizenship, informing our audience about them and providing resources that would enhance and extend their knowledge and understanding of the topic. A combination of self-reflection, information and extention of our readings and activities through this class, and these external resources were combined in a sensical format in order to further the understanding our our audience as to the expectations of engaging in an online community, as well as possibly furthering their know Digital Citizenship.


 * __Process__**

I took a slight break from using it as a teaching tool for students, and instead designed my site more for adults in the community that need to seriously consider if they themselves have a good grasp on what it means to be a Digital Citizen. If necessary, they need to change how they view the online community. They need to change what power they think anonymity gives them. It is **not** a free pass to do whatever you want. This was a central theme to both the Digital Etiquette and Digital Rights and Responsibilities sections of my page.

Digital Access was also a good section because, really, not many people are overly knowledgable about these things because they are situational. Why would the average, everyday person be conserned with text-to-speech technology when he or she can read fine?

My Digital Citizenship website can be found here: [] The narrative for my site is located below:


 * __Reflection__**

This website was an interesting amalgamation of information. I am unsure as to how direct and focused it was entirely meant to be. There were definitely conflicts within myself as to how I wanted the site to be. Short and to-the-point fought against comprehensive and informative. I could have easily doubled the length of each of my pages, but that would be a daunting page to view. Informative would start to tread along the razor's edge of overwhelming. Likewise, some of the concepts began to bleed into each other. I really saw my Netiquette ideas in my Digital Rights and Responsibilities section.

Honestly, I think that Digital Rights and Responsibilities could encompass every single idea that was listed on the description of the website. It is almost as broad in its application as Digital Citizenship itself. However, looking at the final project, I could see it being useful for members of my community. I am proud of the information and work on it; I only wish it would not take pages upon pages to cover everything I wanted the website to cover.


 * __References__**

Ghandi, M. (Producer). (2010). Retrieved from http://www.carryabigsticker.com/btn_be_the_change.htm