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It's time for Online Safety 3.0. Why 3.0 and why now? The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found. Online Safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline. To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It's not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones. ... Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world! Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components - new media literacy and digital citizenship - are both protective and enabling. Ideally from the moment they first use computers and cellphones, children are learning how to function mindfully, safely and effectively as individuals and community members, as consumers, producers, and stakeholders.

Online Safety 3.0 - safety and good citizenship while using the internet and participating in social networking. A "watershed" moment, says Bonnie Bracey Sutton (at http://www.mercurynews.com/fdcp?1257974940062).

"Designed for use in schools, this sequel to 1992's "Don't Copy That Floppy," follows MC Double Def DP on his ongoing crusade against piracy in the digital age. Join the staff of SIIA and their special guests in a discussion about the pitfalls of piracy in today's world."

"These questions have helped me become more reflective with my actions, have allowed me to focus on the teacher I will be coaching, and assist in planning the differentiated, classroom-embedded, technology staff development of which I am an avid proponent."

"Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Music 1. Myna - Far and away my favorite online music editor. This is very similar to Garageband and a nice alternative for those who do not have the Apple application. 2. Soundation - Very easy to use, with a drag/drop interface for creating excellent-sounding music. 3. Jam Studio - Fun site that lets users select a "key" to play in and a theme to match. 4. Loop Labs - Nice time- line editor; learning curve is a bit higher than most sites. 5. Your Spins - Great site for mixing prerecorded music and sharing with others. 6. Indaba - Unique site where users can create collaborative music pieces to make one final product. 7. Creating Music - Very user friendly website shows kids how to create digital music. 8. Contrapunctus Variations - Wonderful site for creating orchestral music by selecting an instrument and clicking on a time line. 9. iNudge - Fun site for kids, who can make music by drawing shapes. 10. Glitchscape - Create sound by drawing vector shaped rectangles. "

Fom the Tech and Learning blog

Aha!! Just what my teachers have been asking for!

Create interactive flash games (like matching, etc.) online!

Blank sheet music generator with lots of time-saving advanced functions.

The sheet music generator allows you to freely insert notations for various instruments, alter the layout of the sheet, and customize the colors, key, and time signatures. There's also a large directory of pre-populated sheets for a variety of instruments

This is a collaborative space for open staff professional development.

If you are a teacher, administrator, or technology specialist that would like to learn more about the many free, online tools that can be used to enhance your teaching, then consider yourself personally invited to join us. We'd love to have you and look forward to an exciting, open, and collaborative experience.

Lots of links to resources and ideas for using your ActivBoard in instruction.

Includes maps and global perspectives of the earth's rivers, forests, mountains, ecosystems, lakes, geothermal energy, plate tectonics, and TONS more.

Good reminders for staff about laptop care over the summer. Weather is getting nice and high temps in the car become a concern.

A WebQuest on Ancient Rome.

From BYU, this tutorial is meant for their "faculty, staff, and students"

This list has several sites I'd not heard of before. (Thanks, Doug Leisher) for sharing this with me via email.

Sites to Promote STEM

Innovation is essential for education to be transformed. As educators our job is to create leaders for our changing society. We must prepare kids for their tomorrow, not our today.