Created by Jordan Klein

1. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP -
LEGAL
Created by:
Gracie Brown, Brenda Matthews, and Jordan
Klein

2. OVERVIEW
Digital Technology
Copyright, Fair Use & Public Domain
Resources

3. WHAT IS DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP?
Digital Citizenship is a
concept which helps
teachers, technology
leaders and parents to
understand what
students/children/tech
nology users should
know to use
technology
appropriately.
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net

4. Why do we need
DIGITAL
CITIZENSHIP?
• Misuse of technology
• Abuse of technology
• Hacking servers
• Bullying
• Illegal downloading
• Inappropriate
websites

5. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP -
LEGAL
Digital Literacy
Digital Etiquette
Copyright, Fair Use &
Public Domain

6. DIGITAL LITERACY
Definition:
The ability to use digital technology and
communications tools, and/or networks to
access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and
communicate information in order to function in a
knowledge society.
Based on California ICT Digital Literacy
Assessments and Curriculum Framework

8. 6 ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL
LITERACY
Access
Manage
Integrate
Evaluate
Create
Communicate

9. Access Manage Integrate
• Search, find • Conduct • Synthesize,
and retrieve organization Summarize,
of and
information Compare

10. Evaluate Create Communicate
• Making judgments • Adapt, apply, design, • Communicate, adapt,
or invent information and present
information

11. EXAMPLES OF DIGITAL LITERACY
Blogs
Wikis
Facebook/Twitter/Myspace
Television
Podcast
Skyping

12. HELPFUL LINKS:
 I have provided a few links that have lesson plans for teaching
Digital Literacy:
 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-
plans/defining-literacy-digital-world-915.html?tab=1#tabs
 http://www.digitalliteracy.gov/resources-by-term/81
 http://www.pensacolachs.org/webpages/capplications/index.cfm?s
ubpage=428866

13. DIGITAL ETIQUETTE
Definition
According to digiteen.com, digital
etiquette or netiquette as its
sometimes called, is a basic set of
rules you should follow in order to
make the internet better for others,
and better for you.

16. Email,
IM, Blog,
• Be
Wiki etc. Cautious.
• Don’t take
Plagiarism what’s not
your own.
Language
• ALWAYS
on the spell check!
web
• Appropriate

17. MOST IMPORTANTLY…
 Be respectful and kind when
using the web.
 Think of other’s feelings.
 DO NOT use ALL CAPS when
sending a message, it makes it
seem like you are yelling at the
reader.
 Don’t insult someone’s race,
nationality or beliefs on the web.
 Remember that the reader can
not see your emotions or body
language when you use the web
so always double check what
you are saying before you hit the
“send” button.

18. HELPFUL LINKS:
 http://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Etiquette
 http://www.brainpop.com/search/search.weml?keyword=Digital+E
tiquette
 https://sites.google.com/a/go.rbe.sk.ca/digital-etiquette-
lessons/home
 http://www.nisd.net/digitalcitizen/sec_digcit/resources/digital_etiqu
ette-6-12.pdf
 http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/digitalcitizenship/lessons/

20. COPYRIGHT
Definition
 According to Merriam-
Webster copyright
is, the exclusive legal
right to
reproduce, publish, sell,
or distribute the matter
and form of something
(as a literary, musical, or
artistic work)

21. FAIR USE
Definition
 According to Merriam-
Webster Fair Use is a legal
doctrine that portions of
copyrighted materials may be
used without permission of
the copyright owner provided
the use is fair and
reasonable, does not
substantially impair the value
of the materials, and does
not curtail the profits
reasonably expected by the
owner

22. RIGHTS OF THE COPYRIGHT
OWNER
 reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords
 prepare derivative works based upon the work
 distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other
transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending
 perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and
choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audio-
visual works
 display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and
choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural
works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other
audiovisual work
 perform the work publicly (in the case of sound recordings*) by means of a
digital audio transmission

24. RULES FOR FAIR USE:
 Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in
a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
 News reporting -- for example, summarizing an address or article, with
brief quotations, in a news report.
 Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a
scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the
author's observations.
 Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited
portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
 Parody -- that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work
by imitating it in a comic way.

25. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Definition
 The public domain is generally defined as
consisting of works that are either ineligible for
copyright protection or with expired copyrights.
Public domain refers to the total absence of
copyright protection for work. The public domain
is a range of abstract materials commonly
referred to as intellectual property which are not
owned or controlled by anyone. The term
indicates that these materials are therefore
"public property", and available for anyone to
use for any purpose.

26. HELPFUL LINKS
 http://www.teachingcopyright.org/
 http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/copyright-2002/lessonplanfaqs.html
 http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-
plans/exploring-plagiarism-copyright-paraphrasing-1062.html
 http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrpln.pdf

27. Ribble, Mike. 2007-2012. Digital Citizenship - Using Technology Appropriately.
Retrieved from http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html on April
5, 2012.
Fosi. September 29, 2009. What is Digital Citizenship? Retrieved on April
5, 2012 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0I13tKrxcA
A Wyrld View. November 11, 2008. Computer Abuse graphic. Retrieved from
http://mydllurth.com/content/computer-abuse on April 5, 2012.
EDTP504. March 27, 2011. Digital Literacy – Using Technology in the
Classroom. Retrieved on April 5, 2012 from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ySocUyI7I

28. Kempster Group. Novemeber 2008. California ICT Digital Literacy Assessments
and Curriculum Framework Retrieved on April 5, 2012 from
http://www.ictliteracy.info/rf.pdf/California%20ICT%20Assessments%20and%20Cur
riculum%20Framework.pdf
Author Unknown. Digital Etiquette. Retrieved on April 9, 2012 from
http://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Etiquette
BrainPop. 1999-2012. Digital Etiquette. Retrieved on April 9, 2012 from
http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/digitaletiquette/
Merriam-Webster. 2012. Definition of copyright. Retrieved on April 9, 2012 from
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copyright
U.S. Government Copyright Office. Copyright Basics. Retrieved on April 9, 2012
from http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

29. Author Unknown. 2012. The “Fair Use” Rule: When Use of
Copyrighted Material is Acceptable. Retrieved on April 9, 2012
from http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-rule-
copyright-material-30100.html
Author Uknown. Public Domain. Retrieved on April 9, 2012 from
http://www.public-domain-
image.com/public_domain/public_domain.html