Digital Citizenship

Poster Created by Brayden Cook

This week I started the 'digital citizenship' part of Task 1. This part of the task required us to research one aspect of safe, ethical and responsible use of ICT in an online environment. At first I was unsure what all those terms meant, so I had to do some research. An example of unsafe use of ICT is cyber bullying, for ethical use it may include acknowledging the works of others in an appropriate manner and an example for responsible use is thinking about what you put online and how you present yourself. The thought process of what aspect I wanted to use was rather simple, cyber bullying is something I have always felt passionate about, so researching and creating a poster about it seemed like the right thing to do. After some research on CyberBully I found some statistics about it on the Queensland Government website.
Figuring out how I was going to create my poster proved difficult. I have previously made posters using Microsoft programs such a Publisher and Word, alongside Adobe Photoshop. As I have previously used these programs I wanted to explore other options, and decided to use an infographic website. As there are many different websites to be used, I tried a few different ones such as Piktochart, Infogr.am and Easel.Ly. I signed up for Piktochart, however the website was running incredibly slow, so I thought I would move on to the next website. Yet again, I had the problem with websites not loading so Infogr.am was out of the question also. As these two websites, that others recommended to me, were not working, I ended up researching some free infographic tools for myself and came across Easel.ly. Easel.ly is an easy to use website, which I highly enjoyed using and would recommend to others. I have finally uploaded my poster to my website as a PDF, as well as providing a link to the online copy.

Brayden.