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.
KAMS #DigCit Parent Outreach
In the #DigCit spotlight ... Parent outreach is an essential component of an effective digital citizenship program. Each year, we ask all EGUSD Digital Citizenship Site Coordinators/schools to include a parent component in their annual Digital Citizenship...
Digital Citizenship in the 2018-2019 School Year
As a district, EGUSD has long recognized the importance of teaching and modeling positive digital citizenship. Other districts have even reached out to us for guidance in implementing a K-12 program and working towards Common Sense District certification, which EGUSD...
Keeping your kids safe online this summer
Summer break is already here for some and fast approaching for others. With school being out and students spending more free time online and on their mobile devices, it's important to be aware of ongoing risks in the cyber world. In addition to cyberbullying and...
Addressing the Need for Media Literacy
In the eight years that EGUSD's digital citizenship program has been in place, new challenges and new resources have necessitated regular updates to this website, which is organized around our four main themes: cyberbullying, digital footprint, protecting privacy...
Digital Citizenship – It’s not just for students
A recent article by Keegan Korf, Embracing Our Digital Footprints and Guiding Students to Curate and Reshape Their Own, re-ignited a conversation on digital citizenship resources for adults. Until now, our focus has been predominately on students. While we provide a...
PBS: We’ll Meet Again – Reiko Nagumo Reunited With Her Upstander
Thanks to an email from Julie Thomas, Library Archivist for California State University, Sacramento, we made sure to be home last Tuesday by 8:00 p.m. Julie’s subject line was a grabber for us: Reiko Nagumo “We’ll Meet Again.” Her message was short: “Here is the link...
Facebook’s new Messenger Kids app – for children under the age of 13
Facebook recently released a spin-off version of their Messenger app, designed specifically for children under the age of 13. Until now, Facebook has required users to be 13+ to create an account. Although Messenger Kids allows tweens into the world of Facebook...
National U.S. “Media Literacy Week” – November 6-10, 2017
This week we join the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) in celebrating National Media Literacy Week. Organizations, schools, educators and Media Literacy Week partners from all over the country have partnered with NAMLE to participate in...
EGUSD Students Stand Up and Speak Out Against Bullying
Students from several of our EGUSD schools (Monterey Trail High School and Roy Herburger Elementary School) took the pledge to "Stand Up Speak Out" against bullying at the California Museum's Unity Center as part of October's National Bullying Prevention Month and...
Digital Citizenship Week: Oct. 16-20
All of our EGUSD Digital Citizenship Site Coordinators have been busy submitting their site implementation plans for the new school year and it's refreshing to see changes that incorporate some of the new Common Sense Media and Google Be Internet Awesome materials we...
Main Themes of EGUSD Digital Citizenship
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