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Things we used to share in person - and in private - can now be broadcast to thousands, instantly. Sometimes we type things we would never say to someone's face. As a result, new issues like forced sexting, textual harassment and cyberbullyiing have emerged, which now affect a majority of young people in the U.S. This site attemps to teach and inform you how to prevent these things from happening to you. The videos and short clips are great for embeding in a wiki site for you own lesson plan on internet safety. All free for your use!

Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Free Technology for Teachers. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.  Great for reinforcing a topic on internet safety, social netiquette, social skills etc.

This playlist is intended to offer tools to make the case that it's critical to teach digital citizenship. There are links to videos that can be used when teaching digitalcitizenship