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Internet Librarian: Digital Footprint Resources

Helping Students Create and Maintain a Positive Digital Footprint

 

Stacy Nockowitz

Head Librarian

Reinberger Middle School Library

The Columbus Academy

Gahanna, Ohio 43230

 

(614) 509-2266

[email protected]

http://somenovelideas.typepad.com

 

Electronic Resources

 

KidSMART: Digital Footprint

http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/digitalfootprints/

 

Digital Citizenship : Using Technology Appropriately

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/

 

Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship – Page from previous website

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

 

“Digital Citizenship : Addressing Appropriate Technology Behavior” (Article by Mike Ribble, Gerard Bailey, and Tweed Ross from Learning & Leading with Technology

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/1stLL.pdf

 

Common Sense Media : Media and Technology Resources for Educators

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators

 

Digital Citizenship : Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities in a Digital Society (Northside Independent School District – San Antonio, TX)

http://www.nisd.net/digitalcitizen/

 

Digital Citizenship and Creative Content

http://digitalcitizenshiped.com/

 

Digital Citizenship (California School Library Association)

http://ecitizenship.csla.net/

 

Digital Citizenship (Cable in the Classroom)

http://www.ciconline.org/DigitalCitizenship

 

 

Print Resources

 

Fodeman, Doug, and Marje Monroe. Safe Practices for Life Online : A Guide for Middle and

            High School. Eugene: International Society for Technology in Education, 2009. Print.Ribble, Mike. Raising a Digital Child : A Digital Citizenship Handbook for Parents. Eugene:

            International Society for Technology in Education, 2009. Print.Ribble, Mike, and Gerald Bailey. Digital Citizenship in Schools. Eugene: International Society for Technology in

            Education, 2007. Print.

Richardson, Will, and Rob Mancabelli. Personal Learning Networks : Using the Power of

            Connections to Transform Education. Bloomington: Solution Tree, 2011. Print.

Sherman, Josepha. Internet Safety. New York: Watts, 2003. Print. Young Adult Nonfiction

            Discusses identity theft, email problems, chat rooms, shopping, and the rules of                         “netiquette”.

Wolinsky, Art. Safe Surfing on the Internet. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2003. Print. Young Adult

            Nonfiction - Discusses acceptable use policies, email use and abuse, etiquette, and                         misuse of intellectual property of others.

 

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EReading: Is this really what we want?

I just received an email from Overdrive, a huge ebook distributor, for an ebook webinar that they're holding. The text in the email says this:

"How do you engage students who spend more time reading from a screen—on their cell phones or computers—than they do from the printed page? With eBook and audiobook downloads.

OverDrive, the leading distributor of eBooks and more for libraries and schools, invites you to learn how to make reading cool with the devices students use every day."

Reading this made me squint pensively at the screen of my laptop. Are ebooks the only way we can "make reading cool"?

My husband and I were just commenting last night to one another about the fact that our kids, who are both teenagers, spend most of their day engaged with their phones. They do everything- literally everything- with their iPhones. They communicate with people, watch TV and movies, listen to music, surf the web, read, and more, all on their phones. Does that mean that doing these things in other ways, like reading from a printed book, is NOT cool?

When did we have to start pandering to kids to get them to read or to get them to start thinking that reading was cool? Is this the message we really want to send to kids? That we want them to engage with their screens even more?

Obviously, Overdrive has an agenda here.  They want to sell ebooks, so they're making it sound like that's the way to go. I don't blame them for that. But, is it what we (teachers, librarians, parents) want? I am not at all convinced that ebooks make reading cool. Reading makes reading cool.  It's just a cool thing to do. I think Overdrive is sending the wrong message, albeit one that is to their advantage, when they say that ebooks are what's going to make reading appealing. Shouldn't the stories be doing that? And do we want to lose our kids to their screens even more?

I'm not signing up for Overdrive's webinars.