2-1 Digital Etiquette

Due No Due Date
Points 10
Submitting a text entry box, a website url, a media recording, or a file upload

In this lesson you will learn about digital etiquette. You will think about and discuss why what people think about the things you say and do online matters. You will be able to identify and describe appropriate social behavior when using social networks like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

For this lesson you will have submit your assignment more than once. In other words, you will click on submit assignment to complete the first activity. Then you will move to the second activity and click resubmit assignment. You will keep doing this until you complete all the activities. Remember, you can copy and paste each Activity into the Text Entry wiki so you can see what you need to do.

Activity 1
Watch the following video on Digital Etiquette. http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/digitaletiquette Links to an external site.

Let's see what you know after watching the video. How would you give advice about the following scenarios or situations?

1. I have a friend on the Internet. We have never met but he's my age and likes gaming. I like gaming too. He is asking me to tell him more about myself like where I go to school, live, and hang out. He also wants to know who my friends are. Should I share this information with him? We have been talking for nearly 2 months every day. He's already told me everything about where he lives and goes to school.

Your advice:

2. You just watched your friend send the following e-mail to a teacher:

HI MRS. CABRAL,

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THE HOMEWORK YOU GAVE US. CAN U PLS HELP ME? TTYL. DUNGEON MASTER

Your friend thinks he has sent a perfect e-mail. Mrs. Cabral didn't agree. What are 3 or 4 things you could tell your friend that might help Mrs. Cabral be happier with the next letter?

Your advice:

Activity 2

1. What are some of the reasons people don't have manners when they get online?

2. Can you think of ways you have acted online that might have broken digital etiquette rules? What are they?

Activity 3

Read the following and decide whether this communication is formal or informal:

Hi There - how are you? I am doing great. I am waiting for school to be over so I can play video games. What about you? Well, get back to me soon. See-ya.

Give three reasons that support the response you gave for formal or informal:

Activity 4 (for this activity you can do a media recording instead of a text entry)

Explain to a friend why following rules and having manners on the Internet matters. You should provide at least 3 examples that support your comments. You can do this in writing, record your voice, or make a video response.