The EGUSD Digital Citizenship team has been writing blog posts and curating information and resources links for our families, staff and community for the past 8 years. Realizing that the digital world can be overwhelming for some, we hope to make tough topics easier to navigate and help people understand the importance of what it means to be active and contributing digital citizens. We warmly invite you to subscribe to, comment on and share resources you find on our website.
ABCya! Digital Citizenship Resource for Primary Grades
A new resource from ABCya! offers students in primary grades an excellent overview of Internet safety/digital citizenship issues. In this short animation, characters Hippo and Hedgehog explain to young viewers the "Cyber 5": Never share personal information Don't...
Digital Citizenship Flashcards
The flashcards below are an excellent resource for parents, teachers and teens to "connect, share, and do good online!" This free resource is provided by A Platform for Good (PFG), a project sponsored by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). The free downloadable...
Facebook – Shared Photo Albums
Facebook recently created a shared photo album feature to make it easier for users to share photos with others. Facebook began rolling out shared photo albums to a small group on Monday, August 26, and will expand to all English-speaking Facebook users before opening...
EGUSD Teachers Take Student Writing Beyond the Walls of the Classroom
Teachers from kindergarten through high school headed to Technology Services Monday afternoon to learn more about QuadBlogging and the Student Blogging Challenge, two exciting opportunities to build on students’ writing skills as well as their digital/global...
Snapchat 101
You would think that an app with a cute looking ghost for its logo would be pretty harmless, no? That's not necessarily the case with Snapchat, a free mobile app that allows users to share images or videos that disappear (supposedly) after a few seconds. Snapchat was...
Texting and Driving – It Can Wait!
One of the most dangerous misuses of social media is not about the content of a text message, but rather when the message is being composed or read. Texting while driving is a serious problem, more like an epidemic. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation,...
2013-2014 EGUSD Digital Citizenship Training
Site representatives from across the district packed the Robert L. Trigg Education Center Board Room for the August 5, 2013, EGUSD Digital Citizenship Curriculum training. The two-hour session provided the opportunity for teachers and administrators from both...
Instagram 101
According to the Pew Research Center, as of May 2013, 91% of American adults have a cell phone, and 34% of American adults own a tablet computer. And now, for the first time, more than half (56%) of the American population owns a smartphone. This change has been...
Main Themes of EGUSD Digital Citizenship
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