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Acceptable User Policies and Digital Citizens

May 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This very interesting post http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/21/digital-citizen-acceptable-use-agreement/provoked a bit of discussion on Twitter this morning.  Andrew Churches has done some useful work on deriving an Acceptable Use Policy based on 6 tenets of digital citizenship.
“The Digital Citizen will follow six tenets of citizenship.

Respect yourself

Protect yourself

Respect others

Protect others

Don’t steal

Honour Intellectual property.” http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/04/the-digital-citizen/

I really like those tenets as, apart [...]

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