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=Purpose of DigC's:=

To develop a team that collaboratively gathers, organizes, creates, and shares resources, ideas and information regarding Digital Citizenship and its nine identifying and supporting themes.
=Rationale:= ===Digital Citizenship involves nine themes of being digital citizens, a topic with minimal resources easily accessible on the Internet. Within the exponentially developing tide of digital advancements and slowly adapting laws, citizens are either lagging to keep up with the advances or are simply oblivious or ignorant to the necessity of being digitally safe, current and ethical. Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity need to be recognized and embraced. This wiki and its collaborators will address these issues and needs.===

=Plans for this Professional Learning Community:=

Provide opportunities for sharing:

 * ====Share ideas, tools, and lesson plans====
 * Blogging Contributions
 * Social Bookmarking

Provide opportunities for gathering information:

 * ====Provide resources for professionals, students, and parents====
 * Surveys and polls

Provide opportunities for education:

 * ====Training Materials====
 * Links to RSS Feeds
 * Contest annoucements
 * Links to Interactive Student Sites
 * Continuing Education Suggestions for Parents

=Participants:=
 * ===School Technology Staff===
 * ===Teachers / Educators===
 * ===Consultants (in areas of security, law, technology, ethics, etc.)===
 * ===Parents===
 * ===Students===

=Alignments:=
 * ===Online Safety and Technology Working Group’s (OSTWG); //Findings under the “Broadband Data Improvement Act//===
 * ===International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)===
 * ===American Association of School Librarians (AASL)===
 * ===Ethical Use of Social Technology//; Adapted from Annette Lamb, Everyone Does It. Teaching Ethical Use of Social Technology, Knowledge Quest//===


 * National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
 * Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship, by Mike Ribble
 * Copyright Laws of the United States

=Applications to be used, but not limited to:=

Google Apps, Skype, RSS, Blogging, Gmail Accounts, Social Bookmarking (Diigo, Delicious)
Training opportunities will be available.