Digital Citizenship – Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/
- The reference I mention above is a web page solely concentrated on web based identities, and what those identities assume. Needs more work. I have to browse the site more.
Toggle – I just like this word. I like saying it, there’s a lot of alliteration. So, what does it mean. Well, my first assumption was maneuvering the web. I originally thought it was a sort of button, which illustrates personal fashion savvy yet simultaneously, my techie ignorance. It actually means to make a digital move from one application to another.But really? Is that it? There has to be more about this term than changing my browsing desires.
Resituating – dictionary.com didn’t really have a decent definition for this term, which really intrigues me and makes me want to run with it. What can I say….I like a challenge.
Okay, I’m going to run with situate, because the word resituate doesn’t exist, obviously the prefixes and so on aren’t of major importance here. Maybe they are, I don’t know. Perhaps I’ll do searching for all forms of the word and find out what they imply. I have to see what the OED says about resituate.
2 responses to “Keywords in Thought….”
finallyrobins
February 13th, 2012 at 02:36
Web-based identities…isn’t that weird? Gaming identities have been around awhile, so I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise there are entire environments to pretend-a-life. I first heard of these environments a few years ago as a special ed teacher, there was a popular site where many individuals (in real life) coped with Asperger’s, the site (sorry, can’t remember name) offered careers, hobbies, dating, etc. The best identities I’ve seen get media attention though are those on The Big Bang Theory! Luv it!
truebloodcreator
February 14th, 2012 at 15:31
I LOVE that show! Sheldon is the BEST….however, I think when it comes to web-identities, we have a tendency (society as a whole) to take for granted that it is just the viewer and our chosen identity that sees the information. This is a mistake on our part. It isn’t called the world wide web for nothing. We can log into an account as truebloodcreator if we so choose to, but we still need to be prudent in what we share.
As Derek mentioned in class, we ought to treat the web as though whatever we say to one another, a group, or the public is handled in the same fashion as we would handle speaking to one another in person. In other words, if you think saying something to someone may be damaging, then for Pete’s sake, don’t blog it! Lol