Digital Ettiqute

I am in the 2B group; the high school and middle school section.
This means that i have to find out information about Digital Etiquette.

I found this very interesting question on digiteen, If you're a member reply! Let me see what you think!

DISCUSSION:

Where do you draw the line between having fun and being inappropriate online? Is it different online than offline?

I think that the line is drawn when its the kind of fun you wouldn't want your parents to see, or watch.. That goes for all public profiles and social networking sites and chats. If people can identify you, nobody would say something like that *e.g when you wouldn't say it to someones face, or in a street, you shouldn't say it online, in public* Anyone can access anything online, no matter how secure the privacy. You just need the right tools. What i'm trying to say is that having fun should be on facebook, not on Digiteen- Where its a website for ***Digital Citizenship for Teenagers***. Sure, you can socialize, appropriately.
What I'm saying is that the question isn't when you draw the line, its where you choose to act upon the boundaries of that line, of having fun and being inappropriate.

Digital Safety article: Parental Tools

Article: Internet Safety Tools That Can Protect Your Child
Author: N/A
Blog: More Hot News

Main Idea: This article, titled: Internet Safety Tools That Can Protect Your Child (<--click to read) talks about the dangers of the Internet and how you can keep your child, and information safe. This article focuses on parental tools that you can use to limit, or monitor your child's actions online. One example is the parental tool, that blocks certain websites, or keywords, that are searched/accessed. You can also block certain information from being sent. Another parental tool is the keystroke trackers, which log everything that your child types. This is being argued as an invasion of privacy, but most parents use it to catch their kids talking to predators online, or when they are being involved with someone without the knowledge of the parents.

Problems/Issues: The issue tackled in this article is the issue of Safety online, and Information Security. It also faces the issues regarding privacy, when parents monitor their chills online actions.

Solutions: Internet Safety tools are suggested in this article. These may allow websites to be blocked, stop information from being sent (phone number, address, name, credit card number, passwords, etc.) , and log every word typed on that computer.

Nine Elements of Digital Citzenship

Definitions & Research;;

Digital Access: The full participation of all of society digitally online.
Digital Commerce: the buying and selling online (Ebay, Amazon.com...etc.).
Digital Communication: The exchange of information/ideas/thoughts online(digitally).
Digital Literacy: Teaching of digital citzenship and its role education-wise (Flat Classroom..etc).
Digital Etiquette: Appropriate behaviour online, the standards set globally about how to act online.
Digital Law: The legal end. Copyright, infringment laws, privacy policies. (Terms of agreement that you SHOULD read... but we all know you DONT)
Digital Rights and Responsibilities: The rights given to a digital citzen. (The right to have control of who sees what, again, privacy policies)
Digital Health and Wellness: Your physical well being, the things that are associated with computers (Eye saftey, light sensitivity, special conditions that induce strokes, etc.) as well as phsychological well being (no cyber-bullying....etc.) LEARN MORE: Physical, Physcological
Digital Security: the precautions taken (digtally) to ensure one's saftey. (again, privacy policies that ask you to add someone as a 'friend' on facebook/myspace...etc. not giving out private information unless that was approved by the owner of the account.) [this will go up in flames if someone finds out your password!]

STAYING SAFE ONLINE

A Great Link to Digital Citzenship