I recently attended a CEET Meet geared toward cyber citizenship education (the archive for the meet is located here and more CEET meets are available here ).

The content of the CEET meet, cyber citizenship education, was very interesting. The resources provided by the meet coordinator were varied and engaging.

One of my favourite resource was an article and series of videos titled “Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens” (located here ). The direction in the meet itself was to discuss to what extent is it each teacher’s responsibility to help students to become good Cyber Citizens, but the conversation turned into how we define cyber citizenship and what it looks like to teach it in the classroom – a much more applicable conversation.

In the social media segment of the course there was another off-topic but highly informative conversation about tweeting and using social media. I was amazed at the level of support the online meet attendees offered to each other.

With all that being said, although I enjoyed reading the articles and resources, as well as keeping up the discussion posts, I had a hard time participating with the meet. After the first three days worth of posts, I became more of a lurker then a participant. My biggest struggle was that given the quality of posts and the experience of the other participants, I didn’t feel I had anything valuable to add to discussions. Since I was not an active participant in the discussions, I didn’t really make any new contacts through the CEET Meet, which was disappointing.

I am also planning to attend the Global Education Conference (http://www.globaleducationconference.com/ ) starting on Monday. I am hoping that because the Global Education Conference bills itself as “involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels” that I will have more to add to the conversations and be more active in the communities overall.