Around the World with 80 Schools started in January 2009 and is an ongoing project. The challenge is to connect your students with 80 schools from around the world via Skype (a free video conferencing tool).
Who owns what you compose? Who controls what happens with the words, images, music, sounds, videos that you create? What rights do you have to use other people's compositions? This unit plan focuses on helping students find answers to these questions. Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system
GINA'S STORY - first-person account of a high school student whose photos were high-jacked from her private page on a social networking site. They were altered with PhotoShop and covered with nasty comments, then posted on another site for everyone to see.
This Comcast segment (Part 2) highlights cyber-bullying where teens discuss their personal experiences of being cyber-bullied, identify safety tips, and discuss how and when to make a report.
This Comcast segment (Part 1) highlights cyber-bullying where teens discuss their personal experiences of being cyber-bullied, identify safety tips, and discuss how and when to make a report.
An educator with a class of 90 students wanted to reach more students and involve them in classroom discussions. She did so by engaging them with Twitter in a collaborative dialogue. Students sent comments by laptops and via cell phone. The micro-blogging experiment forced them to stay on track and keep their thoughts concise.
College students prepping for life after graduation may want to take a closer look at their social networking profiles before they lose out on potential jobs. A recent survey commissioned by Microsoft revealed that 70 percent of hiring managers around the world have admitted to rejecting applicants due to information uncovered through online investigation.
Visual literacy ...is the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning.
The 7th in the series of guides looking at common security threats on the internet and what to do to protect against them, this time looking at Viruses, Worms and Trojans.
The ABC NightLine story of an 18 year old student branded as a sex offender over sexting, possession and distribution of photos of his former 16 year old girl friend.
Children and young people in the UK discuss their views and experienes of internet safety with Professor Tanya Byron, Clinical Psychologist, two years after the Byron Report was published.