ISTE : The International Society for Technology in Education has defined Digital Citizenship in their new NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) as:

• advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
• exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
• demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
• exhibit leadership for digital citizenship

• Define digital citizenship in a variety of ways for the students we teach. This includes copyright and validating or vetting sources students use in all types of academic and non-academic work.
• Cut and Paste: A short one minute video outlining how different types of information can be used in academic or non-profit works. (From: A Plethora of Technology)

• A Fair(y) Use Tale: A mashup of Disney Films to define copyright and the public domain.
• Creative Commons: Is a site that encourages the sharing and remixing of information and media. They have several videos on their site that explain copyright and the use of certain types of media in education.
• Wanna Work Together?
• Get Creative
  

• American University's School of Communication Center for Social Media has recently released the results of a series of meetings with teachers and others dealing with the issues of 'fair use' and use of media in education. They developed a list of five different categories where using copyrighted materials is acceptable within 'fair use' guidelines. (November 2008)
  

1. Classroom teaching with copyrighted materials
2. Copyrighted material within curriculum
3. Sharing teaching materials
4. Student work
5. Sharing student work

• Validating Internet resources

• Search Engine Tools:
• Link: Shows all of the sites that links to the site or domain you specify.
  
• Site: Tool that allows you to search a specific site or domain.
• Filetype: Tools that allows you to search for documents of a particular file type.
  
  

• Searching for Bias: The Internet is an open medium, allowing anyone with an opinion to post a webpage. Validating the information on a web page can be very tricky. This three step process may not be fool proof, but will definitely help you and your students validate web sites they find from the typical 'Google' search.

• Find out who owns a website by truncating the URL to the domain name and using 'easywhois' to see who owns the domain. (http://www.martinlutherking.org)
• Internet Archive's: Way Back Machine: This site will show you the history of almost any site on the Internet. What did your favorite site look like early in its life?