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CivicSpace
http://civicspacelabs.org/
CivicSpace is an integrated and extensible platform of online organizing tools for all manner and size of activist organizations.
Our offering is in active development and in active use by over 150 organizations and activists.

Develop your Citizenship teaching practice using ICT
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/supportpack/
Develop your Citizenship teaching practice using ICT using the "ICT Support Pack" (UK 2006) Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14)
Here are all the materials you will need to teach Citizenship using ICT, from planning and preparation to evaluation.
The Practical Support Pack is an online collection of high quality lesson content, lesson plans, multimedia resources and ICT support materials designed to help teachers develop their teaching practice using ICT.
Step-by-step it gives teaching professionals the opportunity to try out new ideas and new ways of teaching familiar topics in their subject. It also shows the role that ICT can play in achieving learning and teaching objectives.
Also includes video case studies
These citizenship modules address the National Curriculum programme of study and the KS3 schemes of work.
They cover knowledge and understanding about becoming informed citizens; developing skills of enquiry and communication and developing skills of participation and responsible actions.

How to use ICT in citizenship
http://tinyurl.com/7u4ya
How to use ICT in citizenship
ICT can both support and change the way that citizenship is taught. It can alter existing communities and enable new ones to emerge by providing new tools for participation and advocacy.

Ideas for integrating ICT (in Citizenship)
http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/docserver.php?docid=740
Ideas for integrating ICT (in Citizenship)
Education for citizenship can be powerfully enhanced and supported through appropriate use of ICT. Here is a rationale for the use of ICT in education and three resources for use by teachers, also a report from the citizenship curriculum software initiative
An approach to citizenship and ICT | A stand alone lesson plan | A lesson using email |

The Internet as a tool for citizenship education
http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/docserver.php?docid=741
The Internet as a tool for citizenship education

Citizenship and ICT
http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/docserver.php?temid=81
Citizenship and ICT : On these pages you will find advice and help about using ICT to support Citizenship education.
Citizenship is qualitatively different from traditional subjects. It entails action, participation, expressing a view, affecting an outcome, its end result and aim is student empowerment. ICT can both support and change the way that citizenship is taught.
What are we citizens of? A nation? A locality? A global community? ICT alters existing communities and enables new ones to emerge. It provides new tools for participation and advocacy.