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Thoughts on teaching Digital Citizenship and Online Safety

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Thoughts on teaching Digital Citizenship and Online Safety

November 21, 2009 by Phil Macoun Leave a Comment

I’ve been carrying this article called Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth around on my iTouch for a few days and finally had a chance to read it while riding a BC Ferry today.  It’s well worth a read in it’s entirety but the gyst of the article (as I understand it) is that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Technology Musings, Uncategorized Tagged: digiteen, literacy, safety

Global Collaborative Projects are great Pro-D

February 4, 2009 by Phil Macoun 4 Comments

A while back I was asked to write a blog post for the TLITE blog about my experiences leading a class of grade 9 students through a Global Collaborative Project called the Digiteen Project.  This post has been bouncing around in my head for a while and in the process has taken a slightly different … [Read more…]

Posted in: Technology Musings, Uncategorized Tagged: digiteen, flatclassroomproject, ProD, projects

Getting my Digital Literacy Presentation figured out.

January 10, 2009 by Phil Macoun 9 Comments

In a few days I am going to have a chance to present to our parent body on the subject of Digital Literacy.  My presentation is going to be on the heels of a longer presentation about Literacy in general.  I am excited about this opportunity and feel like the timing couldn’t be better.  We … [Read more…]

Posted in: Literacy Tagged: digiteen, literacy, presentation

Ning as platform for networked learning?

January 9, 2009 by Phil Macoun Leave a Comment

I have just finished marking my student’s reflections from last years Digiteen project and am feeling a need to write my own reflection on the project.  In general I was happy with how the project went in my class.  My students learned a lot about web 2.0 communication and collaboration skills, and in some areas … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: digiteen, learning, ning

Obama, Social Networking, and Digiteen

November 6, 2008 by Phil Macoun 4 Comments

There have been a bunch of thoughts swirling around in my head over the past week that I really have to write down so that I can move on to other things.  My experiences as a teacher involved in the Digiteen Project this year have gotten me thinking alot about how to engage teenagers in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: digiteen, obama, reflection, socialnetworking

Digi Teen Stories

October 25, 2008 by Phil Macoun 7 Comments

This year I decided my grade 9 class would join the Digi Teen project, an amazing global collaborative project dreamed up by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay. As participants in this project my grade 9 technology class is engaged in researching different aspects of digital citizenship and collaborating with peers from other countries to edit … [Read more…]

Posted in: Technology Musings, Uncategorized Tagged: digiteen, reflection, socialnetworking

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