Get Certified in Digital Citizenship

The week of October 21st - 25th is Digital Citizenship Week.

 What better way to celebrate than to become a Digital Citizenship Certified Common Sense Educator.  A certified educator is dedicated to teaching digital literacy and citizenship to young people using materials from Common Sense Media.  There is no cost to becoming certified or to using any of the materials on the Common Sense Media website.

For more information on how to become certified including the criteria and an application, please check out Common Sense Educators: Digital Citizenship Certified.

Digital Citizenship and 'Choose Your Own Adventure'

With YouTube's video annotation options, you can create 'Choose Your Own Adventure' type videos.  In the video below, a girl receives a text message from her boyfriend asking for pictures. The viewer then has to decide whether to  "send it" or not send it. The choice that the viewer makes takes him or her to a video that explains the "results" of the choice.


(from my limited testing, the selection of the options 'Yes' or 'No' does not seem to work on a mobile device)

How to use in Education

• Having your age-appropriate students or children watch this video is an excellent way to remind them about making good choices about what they do with images.  This would be a great video to embed into any digital citizenship curriculum.
• Using YouTube Video Annotations, you or your students can easily create a 'choose your own adventure' type series for use in your classroom.