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Digital Citizenship
//Passport to the Internet// – how does it meet some of the categories in our continuum?
 * PART II**
 * Hands-on**

[|Attention Literacy] – Howard Rheingold I want my students to learn that attention is a skill that must be learned, shaped, practiced; this skill must evolve if we are to evolve.
 * Articles**

//[|Digital Footprint – Your Online Data Trail]l// What does it mean when a potential employer, college recruiter or client googles your name and does not find anything or much? What if a principal searches for a potential hire’s name and work and does not find anything? What does it mean NOT to have a digital footprint in these cases?

[|Owning Your Digital Identity] I live online, I track my digital footprint, I take care with passwords and I regularly review my digital reputation and identity.

**ELA Resources**
[|Living Sky School Division Learning Resources] [|Online Databases]

**Arts Ed/Career Ed/ PEd**
[|Flickr: Creative Commons] [|Great Quotes about Learning and Change]
 * Illustrating Big Ideas**

**Math**
Virtual Manipulatives [|Learning Resources: Math Page] [|A Math Problem] (perimeter, area, and volume)

Senior Math
[|dy/dan] " I'm a high school math teacher stationed outside Santa Cruz, CA, and I get better at this job every day I keep at it and keep pondering my wins and losses. This is a documentary of all the fun I'm having. My purpose here is practice not policy. This blog goes out to the classroom grinders, to the teachers handling the tough classrooms. Let's figure out how to make this job better and easier." [|A Difference] "I teach math. A "difference" is one of the four fundamental operations. The slope of a line is calculated using a quotient of "differences" which, when we first study calculus, evolves into the "difference quotient" (AKA the derivative). Later we study "differential equations."