Digital
Citizenship Technologies
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Email etiquette
Email etiquette is the
list of rules that govern emails. I believe these rules are very important for
students to learn because during school they were used to writing emails to
their friends, or emailing each other. They lack the protocol of writing to
their college professors. Sometimes they would use casual greetings such as hey
doc (if they do), and they would still use their personal emails. They need to
know how to address each matter, not use capital letters, and they should write
a proper subject/title. This makes a difference in how they are perceived by
their instructors as they might be mistaken for being rude, while actually they
are just ignorant. I believe that professors should teach their students how to
write emails, encourage them to use tutorials on email protocol to avoid bad
impressions. This will help them maintain a good relationship with the
instructors, and will help them in their professional life later.
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Digital Libraries
They
are online libraries containing texts, audio and visual materials providing
information on specific topics. Depending on the library, it can either be for
public users, or limited users such as those created by universities to help
their students access necessary information that is not included in course
books; few examples are medical library, music library, art library, etc. Users
can login and search the information they need about a certain topic. I can ask
my students to login to public libraries and read different articles depending
on each chapter’s theme such as sports, healthy lifestyle, and technology. This
would increase their vocabulary, and help them when creating PowerPoint
presentations, or team projects. This technology will be more fun and easier to
access than going to the traditional library and borrowing books.
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