Digital Citizenship is a key ingredient for students and educators working online. As far as training goes, I suppose it doesn't matter which order we learn things in... however, it certainly shouldn't be the last thing addresses in the classroom. Proper netiquette needs to be introduced and practiced throughout the year, not taught after everything is finished. Many students, as well as much of our society seem to have missed the lessons in life focused on how to conduct themselves sociably. I addressed this issue a bit in "T2- Commenting" as well.
The link to Digital Citizenship (from SBISD's PTL Resources) has some great stuff in it. I'll want to look more into later (the linked documents on the Resources and Publications pages specifically). The Brain Pop Video is a great introduction to this topic. There's alot of links to explore on the SBISD page. More resources on Ning.
The Digiteen Website has some good stuff on it too, however the menu layout has a few little issues here and there that make navigation a little confusing at first.
Our society has become a place where people tend to value their own opinions, and often feel strongly about defending it. While this is a great asset and quality, it often leads to fruitless and hostile arguments when it comes to the digital age. Its good to have an opinion and great to discuss and participate in discourse, however lets avoid the e-mauling please. This is definitely one of my biggest concerns when it comes to the digital age, and certainly something I will be enforcing.
As far as general use of tech (which is lumped into DC, although I don't really feel its the same thing; more of a digital literacy vs digital citizenship), there are some good things to keep in mind on Cool Cat Teacher's post. Alot of these comments aren't things that we don't know, but things that I feel we often forget to keep in mind. Our students are so into technology, we often just assume they know how to find good resources, understand that everything on the internet isn't true, etc etc etc.
I agree whole heartedly that digital citizenship needs to be directly taught from the very beginning of each year and reviewed. The kids and even many adults need to learn how to be respectful of others when they are on various social networking sites. We can't just assume that they know how to do this. Like everything else, we need to model this.
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