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Digital Citizenship

I’m working on organizing faculty/students/staff who would be interested in promoting awareness of Digital Citizenship elements.  

I’ve created a wiki to organize resources and information about events.

I want to create a calendar where each month starting in September on of the 9 elements is highlighted.  I thought it would be a good idea to see what kind of days/events are already “celebrated” and then match them up.  For example, since National Cyber Security month already exists in October  I would make October the month of “Digital Citizenship:  Security” awareness.  

The only problem is trying to find days/months that match up with all of them.  It’s not quite working out!  I found this great calendar with a listing of many, MANY events which I thought would solve my problem.  When sorted, it seems to have made the problem worse.  I’m worried that I’ve missed some.  It’s also difficult choosing which topics would be best for which month since there are multiple days/weeks/months that would match.

Help!  If you know of specific months/days that correspond to the 9 elements of Digital Citizenship, please share!

This is what I have so far.  I’ve enabled commenting (shortcut key is Ctrl-Alt-M)

Highlighted Topics/Events are choices that I feel are a good fit.

Any help would be much appreciated!  I will be updated the wiki with the plans for events and resources, stay tuned!

What’s going on?

Trending on Twitter today... #OATHKEEPERS ferguson

What???

Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason via Mother Jones

Oath Keepers: The heavily armed white vigilantes in Ferguson, explained via Vox

The Starfish Story

I heard this story the first year I taught and have never forgotten it... I just shared it with a teacher friend of mine who needed some encouragement- thought I would share it on my blog as well.....  Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up.

As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn't dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean.

As he got closer he called out, "Good morning! What are you doing?"

The young man paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean."

"I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?"

"The sun is up and the tide is going out. And if I don't throw them in they'll die."

"But, young man, don't you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it. You can't possibly make a difference!"

The young man listened politely. Then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said- "It made a difference for that one."

How many "starfish" do you come across in a day?

Wikiconference North America

I’m going to be going on a trip!  Very excited about my upcoming trip to Ohio this week to the Wikipedia North America conference.  This is the first trip that I’ll be taking in quite a while, I’m a little nervous but also very much looking forward to it!

I just finished putting together my notes page that I’ll be using for the sessions. I’ll also be posting during the trip on my IG page and tweeting as well.  So stay tuned!

STEM the Divide!

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#privacy

Dow Jones asks court to unseal long-completed digital surveillance cases Tens of thousands of electronic surveillance orders are sealed from public view. via arstechnica

Federal court rules cops can warrantlessly track suspects via cellphone Geo-data received based on "reasonable grounds" phone was connected to a crime.  via arstechnica

Amendment 4 by Jeff DeMaria creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo  

Obama panel supports warrant requirement for e-mail, cloud content Congress has punted on issue for years. E-mail, cloud data to remain exposed.  via arstechnica

No worries: NSA chief says facial recognition program is totally legal "We do not do this in some unilateral basis against US citizens," NSA chief says.  via arstechnica

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Visit to the MET 12/27/18

Going to the MET with a friend tomorrow, my list of things to check out...

SPECIFIC ITEMS

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children by Bernini (sculpture)

Viewpoint:  “The action unfolds as you encircle the piece.”  Very cool, one of the things that I like about his sculpture of Daphne and Apollo is that as you walk around the sculpture story is brought to life, action is given form.  

I’m excited that I’m going to get a chance to see one of his works in NYC. 

Aside from Daphne and Apollo at Villa Borghese, my other favorite Bernini pieces I saw in Rome:  Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi nella Piazza Navona, St. Peter's colonade, the angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, Ecstasy of St Teresa in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria

The Denial of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (painting)

I am also excited that I will be able to see one of Caravaggio’s works at the Met.  Caravaggio is best known for his technique of chiaroscuro.  I saw many of his paintings in Italy:  the works in Cappella Contarelli in the church San Luigi dei Francesi on the theme of St. Matthew, David with the Head of Goliath and Saint Jerome Writing in Villa Borghese

If there’s time, I’d like to see paintings by Velázquez, Goya (or this one) and El Greco and some works by Rodin (or the Hand of Rodin, Study for Obsession, Pygmalion and Galatea or The Hand of God)

EXHIBITS

Dutch Masterpieces

- The Disillusioned Medea - Curiosity - Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Everything is Connected:  Art and Conspiracy

And then depending on what my guide is interested in viewing, perhaps something from one of these exhibits?

Dangerous Beauty:  Medusa in Classical Art Relative Values:  The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance Celebrating Tintoretto:  Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings The Poetry of Nature:  Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection Children to Immortals:  Figural Representations in Chinese Art Streams and Mountains without End:  Landscape Traditions of China Epic Abstraction

Links to exhibits on the Met website with information and digital resources

DR: Diminished Reality

XR technologies [Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR)] have been called the internet of experience or empathy as opposed to the World Wide Web being the internet of information. Well now there's a new game in town.

"You already own a device with this terrifying/ magical technology built-in: noise cancelling headphones. Unlike augmented reality, where your real-world environment is digitally enhanced with visual elements, sounds or other sensory inputs, diminished reality takes your unwanted stimuli away. Soon, wearable devices will let you block sounds, sights, and even smells from your everyday existence."

Future Today Institute, Issue 201

For someone who is hypersensitive to outside stimuli, devices like noise cancelling headphones are a godsend. I never leave home without them. But as helpful as this technology can be, just as with any tool there is a potential downside too.

Explore this up and coming trend