I'm not sure how integrated the internet is in primary school curriculums today, but when I was in school we had very little access to the internet during class. It wasn't a part of our lessons and therefore we were never taught about online safety until we reached high school. I never even heard the terms 'digital literacy' or 'digital citizenship' until I began my technology unit at Murdoch University. Since I found the term digital literacy so ambiguous, I figured other people might have as much confusion regarding the topic as myself. I made my poster for primary school aged children, though I kept the design simple so it is appropriate for high schools too. It explains the basics of how to become digitally literate and why.
I used Piktochart to make my poster. I tried Infogr.am to start and, to be fair, it was the first site I tried and I only glanced at the starting page before I had a look at some others. Unfortunately for Infogram Piktochart seemed to have more themes that matched what I was looking for, as well as a large range of graphics that you can just drag and drop into place on your poster. I had been putting off making my poster until almost the last minute - you may remember I described myself as not "technologically savvy"? Well, my art skills (or lack thereof) make me look like some kind of techno-genius in comparison and being given an assignment that requires you to make art on the computer kind of terrified me. Lucky for me, however, Piktochart is very flexible and allows you to pick a theme and either change it completely or just remove their information and put yours in.
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