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Thank you to Lisa for posting this link on the LMS. We encourage you all to post relevant links for your assignments or future teaching to this group

More ideas for Task 3

Thanks to Angela for posting this link to the LMS.

idea posted on Skype by Angela - thank you Angela

This post might assist you with selecting a social media tool for assignment 3a

This article is cross posted on ABC Splash website. If you haven't already checked out the site, I recommend you do so. There are many fabulous free resources and interactives for Australian teachers and students. *** 2013 is the sixth year that I have used educational blogging in my classroom.

This article is cross posted on ABC Splash website. If you haven't already checked out the site, I recommend you do so. There are many fabulous free resources and interactives for Australian teachers and students. *** 2013 is the sixth year that I have used educational blogging in my classroom.

Posted by Mrs Kathleen Morris on Friday, March 8th 2013 This in an update of older posts about the benefits of educational blogging. 2013 is the sixth year that I have maintained a classroom blog. When I first began I didn't know much about blogging at all and I didn't realise there could be educational benefits to running a blogging program.

"In a post I recently published entitled Become a Green Screen Wizard with the Do Ink App, I discussed why this resource is one of my favorite apps and included an student generated example from a first grade classroom. This time I'm going to take this article one step further and provide you with the training materials I used to roll out the Do Ink app to teachers in my district"

Thank you Jenni. What a great idea! I can see this providing hours of 'edutainment' for the kids.

I found this resource very helpful and quite comprehensive. I especially liked the Cyberbullying acronym G.E.T R.I.D. I think this concept would make a great poster to hang on the wall of my classroom when I am a teacher. It passes the C.R.A.P test (Gold, 2010) as it is current being copyrighted from 2006-2016 so I would assume it is updated quite regularly and relevant for the topic. It is reliable because it is supported by the Australian government, Murdoch children's research institute and the Royal Children's hospital in Melbourne among others. The media collaborator is the ABC and it has won quite a few awards. There are no advertisements so I do not think there is any agenda and the information is not really biased in any way, it is quite factual and informative rather than opinionated. One negative that I found was that there are a few statistics mentioned but no reference to what study these statistic come from, making me wonder how reliable they really are. All in all a brilliant resource for understanding the concept of digital citizenship and cyberbullying. Thank you for posting it!

I agree, this website is great. I've found it really helpful in my research and it passes the CRAP test :)

I totally agree with previous comments, this has been very helpful for me as I research information on digital citizenship ;)

ideas for assignment 3

There is a programme I have heard about called something like 'self-control'. Apparently it allows a student - or their parent - to lock a computer out of a site for a specified period of time, such as 60 minutes, to help the user exercise self-control and get their homework done. Has anyone else heard of this? It would be very welcome in my house!

Hello Angela I haven't heard of this before... but a Google search turned up this info - http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol it sounds like what you are referring to. You might want to check it out :)

I think I would use this for myself! I always end up shopping or on facebook when I'm trying to study!