Bringing It All Together

Bringing It All Together

Part I: Nine Themes of digital citizenship

Match the following themes of digital citizenship with the statements below.

* Digital Access * Digital Law

* Digital Commerce * Digital Rights and Responsibility

* Digital Communication * Digital Health and Wellness

* Digital Literacy * Digital Security

* Digital Etiquette

1. You setup a new event on ical to remind you to change your password every three months. Digital Security

2. Various restaurants and coffee shops are now offering free Wi-Fi (wireless Internet connection). Digital Access

3. You respond to an email with ALL CAPS. Digital Etiquette

4. You purchase a used gaming system and find that the previous owner's account information has not been deleted. You go into the online store and start making purchases with their account information. Digital Law

5. You watch Lynda videos to learn how to use photoshop. Digital Literacy

6. You ask your boss for a standing desk so that you don't have to sit down at work. Digital Health and Wellness

7. You post on a discussion board asking friends to vote for you in an online music contest. Digital Communication

8. Adding items to your wish list on Amazon that you share with your friends and family. Digital Commerce

9. You sign a petition to support the revision of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that would restrict police from reviewing private emails without a warrant. Digital Rights and Responsibilities

Part II: Digital Citizenship Compass

Using the Digital Citizenship compass, identify how you feel about each statement on the following pages and provide sound reasoning, why you feel this way based on the materials learned this month.

1. Geoff really wants to watch a movie on a book that he just read. He can't find the movie on Netflix, Hulu, or any other paid streaming service. He can find the movie available for purchase, but it is out of his budget. He searches for it online and finds a site where he can download it illegally and decides to do so.

To be honest, at one point I would say "worth a shot if I don't get in trouble": That is horrible, I know. I am not in the habit of downloading illegally, but I'd be lying if I said I haven't done this at least once. However, I have learned that this is practicing bad digital citizenship so I might think twice before doing this type of thing again. When it comes to Geoff, he would be taking away profit from the people who own the rights to the movie. He would be on the illegal end of digital commerce.

2. Brenda finds a thumb drive on the floor at her local library. She decides that while no one is looking, she will inert it into her laptop to see what files are on it. She discovers that it belongs to another student in her class, and that they have been working on the same assignment she was researching in the library. Brenda decides to keep the thumb drive and pass it off as her own.

Wrong: I believe this is totally wrong because not only is she practicing bad digital citizenship by breaking digital law, she is also going against the academic honor code by plagiarizing.

3. While working on a project that requires you to use only photos or film footage that you took yourself, you realize that you forgot to take one of the shots (while you were on location) a week ago. You don't have time to drive two hours to take more footage but you did find some footage online that will work perfectly. You decide to use this extra footage and pass it off as your own.

Wrong: This too is wrong because I would be breaking digital law. I am using someone else's work without giving them the proper credit. I am also breaking the academic honor code because I am submitting work that is not totally my own.

4. Your teacher assigns you to work with a group of students that you don't like and you are not happy about it. You ignore your members' request for contact, because you have decided not to work on the assignment with them. Just before the assignment is due, you send and email to your members; you claim that none of them got in touch with you, and then forward that email to your teacher.

Not comfortable with this: I feel in this scenario that digital communication is being misused. Not only am I not communicating with my classmates, but I am being deceitful and using an email to mislead my teacher about what has been going on.

5. While sitting in class, you decide to take some pictures of your teacher (without your teacher's knowledge or permission). You then edit the pictures and post them on Twitter and Instagram.

Wrong: I believe this is wrong due to the fact that it is going against the teacher's digital rights. I would be invading her personal privacy by taking pictures without her knowledge and violating her digital privacy by posting them online.

6. Randy doesn't have a lot of money but really wants to watch a movie that is on Netflix. He knows that you have an account and asks for your username and password.

I am in between "Doesn't

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