Digital Citizenship

Welcome to our Spring Semester class!

This is a one-semester ninth-grade seminar class that explores the impact of the internet and related technologies on our lives while giving you useful ways to thrive as an online citizen.

Essential Questions

Class content and activities center around our essential questions:

What are the rights, responsibilities, and challenges of being an online citizen?

What essential skills should a successful digital citizen possess?

We’ll attempt to answer these questions by exploring topics that relate to our online lives and by engaging in activities and skill-building that helps us better understand how to be successful online.

How this Site is Organized

Syllabus

This page contains details about this class, including teacher information, meeting times and locations, course information, requirements, policies, and procedures. It also includes a class calendar.

Resources

This page contains resources to help students locate tools, information, and tutorials that will assist in the completion of coursework.

Scoring

This page contains information about how student scores and badges are awarded to students.

Leaderboard

This page contains top scores for current students, as well as the Digital Citizenship Hall of Fame.

Scholarship Topics

This page contains information about choosing scholarship topics for independent research, including topic ideas that other students have found to be worthwhile areas of study.

Post Types

This page contains information about the post types that available to students on the class blog.

Other Pages

There are also pages for parents and educators to learn more about this course, and there is a credits page to recognize the people and resources who have helped make this course what it is.