Website polished and poster finished! Talk about a sense of accomplishment, doing something artistic and having O.C.D is not a great combination. let me just say, it took me way longer then normal to finalize the font I would use for my poster.

On a serious note though, after creating my digital citizenship page I have all this knew knowledge that I sort of feel bombarded with. Kind of like, I know all this new information but have no way to express it. I could have made eighty-five posters and written one hundred blog's with all the information I have come across. I opened this blog not knowing how I was going to finalize this part of the assignment, only to realize I still have so much I want to say and learn! Speaking of so, I found this great little journal article by a man named Mark Gibbs:
“Gibbs, M. (2010). Digital citizenship. Network World (Online), , 15. Retrieved from http://0-search.proquest.com.prospero.murdoch.edu.au/docview/757190607?accountid=12629”
Gibbs talked about how a young man had taken his own life because his room mate filmed him doing private things in his dorm room and streamed it online. It is things like this that make me overtly frustrated, it is such an over complicated world we live in when we beg for artistic freedom yet use the tools we are given to exploit people's private lives, almost like we have no happy medium. It used to be technology that scares me, yet if I vision technology as a person, it is not the physical person I am afraid of, right? It is the content inside their head, There mind. It is the content on ICT that scares me, technology is just the aid.

After reading text over text over text about how we should leave a good digital footprint, I realized we have no control on what anyone else's footprint is like. No control over what they are uploading, downloading, sharing and stealing. Not just sexting but the online world in general, I believe we need to further our education from 'there are bad digital citizens' out there to how to avoid situation like that poor American boy Gibbs discusses. People use the internet as a shield, people are ten times worse on the internet and we need to be equipped and educated on what to expect.

I realize this blog is sort of all over the place and I have not really concluded anything at all, yet this is what is going through my mind right now! It seems like such a simple strategy, just do not upload anything you would not want you're mother, father or employer to see. Yet, everyone does this anyway! I have come to the conclusion it is because we do not realize the internet is a permanent thing. you can not just click exit and it is gone. if you write on a piece of paper in pen but throw it out, it may be out of site but the writing is still there isn't it? I think the idea of permanence kind of struck us when Facebook brought in the timeline, things we had written years prior was now re-surfacing, all this time facebook was storing our stuff and we had no idea. If I could only teach my future students one thing from what I have learnt it would be that the Internet is never private.
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has succeeded our humanity" - Albert Einstein

I might leave it on that note, my head is about to explode!
wish me luck, check out my website and my poster and please please please stay alive and avoid the thumb drive...see what I did there ;)

Blog you soon!