Digital Citizenship

#PayItForward Creative Commons and Digital Citizenship

My year 9 students have been learning about copyright, public domain and creative commons in recent weeks and I wanted to give them a task that had value. by Ludovica PB (BY-NC-ND) I asked them to create images – photographs or drawings – that they would like to share freely on the Internet under a […]

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Hour of Code Around the World (Event) #edchat #ukedchat #aussieED

After some discussion with a friend and former colleague (and some thinking over a few coffees) I was inspired to post a short tweet yesterday: My aim is to get a small number of schools involved in a Google Hangout on Friday 11th December, code together and learn a little about how Computer Science is […]

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Some thoughts on a developing workflow – Google #Classroom and #GAFE

It is nearly the end of my first term at my new school and Google Classroom and other apps are fully embedded in my subject for years 7 – 13. I thought it was a good time to reflect on some of the successes and issues still to be resolved in my workflow using Google […]

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#Google #Classroom for building Digital Citizenship

Thanks to Pixabay.com: image link The term has started here in Milan and I want to have a safe area for students to collaborate and comment and develop the way they respond to other users on the Internet before we move on to other, more public, mediums. I decided to use Google Classroom because the […]