#DCMOOC - A MOOC About Digital Citizenship

Whether we work with preschool children or college students, digital citizenship is something that we should all be talking about with our students. To help you help students understand digital citizenship Alec Couros is facilitating a MOOC on the topic of digital citizenship. The MOOC is supported by the Government of Saskatchewan.

#DCMOOC begins tonight, May 13th at 7pm Saskatchewan Time (use this tool to convert the time to your local time). If you cannot make it to tonight's session it will be held again on May 14th at 3:45pm Saskatchewan Time. Click here to register for the #DCMOOC.  #DCMOOC will run for five weeks. An outline of the five week #DCMOOC can be found here.

H/T to Jen Deyenberg for the Tweet about #DCMOOC

An Open Course for Educators & Administrators

Dr. Alec Couros is teaching a graduate course this fall titled Social Media & Open Education. Anyone can participate in the course online. On his blog Alec outlines the various ways that you can participate. You can learn more about the course here. You may also want to watch the trailer developed for the course. (The video is short and entertaining).



Applications for Education
This course could be an excellent professional development resource for anyone that is interested in the roles of social media in education. This may be a course that teachers would want to participate in along with their building administrators. By participating together, administrators and teachers could discuss how social media can be used within the context of their schools.