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For the past month, I participated in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on digital citizenship. What is a MOOC you ask? A MOOC is an online course that allows unlimited participation and open access via the internet. MOOCs use traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets as well as creates a community for many people from many different places to collaborate and learn. In this MOOC, participants had access to a focused weekly webinar focused on digital citizenship with other webinars available that focused on ways that educators could build an online presence and make connections.
What did I learn from this MOOC? I learned that I have a whole lot to learn! 🙂 I will use our Week 5 questions to share my final thoughts and next steps.
What is one big take-away for you from #DCMOOC, and what will you do with that information?
One big take-away revolves around making sure that as a teacher I continuously stress digital citizenship with my students. Digital Citizenship is not just a course and/or curriculum that is taken and forgotten about it, but a mindset that should pervade every part of a person’s life.
Going forward, what else do you feel you need to know about digital citizenship, and what will you do to learn about it?
As I look at my students and the community I work in, I think that finding inventive ways to educate households about digital citizenship will be a huge undertaking. I plan to continue to connect with the people I’ve met through the MOOC to share ideas and brainstorm ways to assist with this. I also need to work with my students on copyrighted information. I’ve found various ways to find and access pictures in the correct way and I plan to work with them on showing them the process.
Will you continue to stay connected and engaged with the #DCMOOC community, and, if so, how do you plan to do so? What are your suggestions for continuing to learn about and discuss digital citizenship together after the course ends?
I definitely plan to stay connected with the #DCMOOC community through Twitter and Google+. I use TweetDeck as my Twitter platform so I have tabs for DCMOOC hashtag (#dcmchat) and the DCMOOC Twitter list. I also have a tab for the Digital Citizenship hashtag (#digcit). The resources that are available just through Twitter are a great help, but I also continuously search for other resources and Common Source Media is a definitely an amazingly comprehensive resource.
Big shout out to my colleague, @TechRhett, who shared this MOOC with me. It was my first, but it definitely won’t be my last!
Until the next time,
