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My Digital Citizenship Website
Digital citizenship is usually defined as the "norms of behavior with regard to technology use."
Digital Citizenship is a key component of the technology and media literacy. We should not only teach our students how to be good citizens in the real physical world but how they can be good netizens of the online world as well. Today's learning requires a lot of use of technology and most important of all, our students are using technology on a daily basis - text messaging, blogging, Facebooking, Twittering, watching videos, gaming and networking. They live in two different, but interconnected worlds. What they do online can have severe repercussions on their real life if not properly instructed on digital safety issues and this is where digital citizenship fits in.
COOKIES, and why you need to know
Some people believe the name for internet cookies came from the fairy tale about two children called Hansel and Gretel. The children were able to mark their trail through a dark forest by dropping “cookie crumbs” behind them so that they could see where they had been.
Cookies are small files which are stored on a user's computer each time they access a web page. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. Every time you return to the same URL, the computer sends back this little package of information to the server, which detects that you have returned to the page. Your bank uses cookies to allow you to access it with your preset (save my password) login when you return to the page.
Tracking Cookies are a specific type of cookie that is distributed, shared, and read across two or more unrelated Web sites for the purpose of gathering information or potentially to present customized data to you.Tracking cookies are not harmful like malware, worms, or viruses, but they are a privacy concern.
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As a best practice, delete cookies on your computer as often as you clear your cache. You should also disable add tracking via the third party (tracking) cookies:
Go to the Privacy tab and click the Advanced button. Check the "Override automatic cookie handling" option, and then set "Third-party Cookies" to "Block." Click the OK button. In Google Chrome, click the three-lined icon in the top-right corner of your screen and select Settings.
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