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Veronica Rohach

Using Google docs with Elementary Students - NetherlandsSummit - 1 views

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    Gives reasons why google docs are great for elementary, such as showing their responsibility on the web
Vicki Davis

Children's Way - Teaching Kids and Parents Internet Safety - 0 views

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    Great place to teach digital citizenship for students in elementary ages. Schools can sign up for accounts. Excellent place to evaluate as part of how the www is changing the world and how information is moving between children.
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    I highly recommend that elementary and middle schools at least sign up for a school code for woogi world - this is a great tool suggested by Hoover City schools for teaching digital citizenship. My daughter (my intrepid tester of all kid virtual worlds) loves it and says she thinks it is great for kids.
Vicki Davis

Goodreads | When Marion Copied:: Learning about Plagiarism by Brook Berg - Reviews, Dis... - 0 views

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    Some teachers recommended the book "When Marion Copied" for teaching kids about plaigarism in elementary.
Becky Novak

Social Networking in Schools - 0 views

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    This resource includes a great image to represent the effects of social networking on elementary children.
Vicki Davis

Eco-Bunnies - 0 views

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    Businesses see that the way to influence education is to provide meaningful, cool video for school children. This project with students shows how education and teaching can change in a new way. Kids and teachers are connecting directly to companies and one another in cool projects like this.
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    Travelocity has worked to create a course on carbon offsets and wants help naming their eco-bunnies. This looks to be something fascinating for elementary teachers. Would love to hear what you think?
Vicki Davis

Online, teachers walk a fine line | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY - 1 views

  • And some districts -- from South Dakota to New Jersey -- are starting to limit what teachers can do on the sites.
  • "It is the responsibility of all individuals associated with the Foundation to act in a manner that will ensure the public's trust as well as the trust of colleagues and peers.
  • Last month, district officials investigated an e-mail from an unidentified "concerned parent" that included pictures of a woman clad in only a bra and underwear. The photo allegedly was taken from a Sunrise Elementary teacher's MySpace page. The teacher was not identified, and the photos did not show the woman's face.
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  • he has heard that some teachers have "risqué" photos on their accounts, but he hasn't actually seen any.
  • "Teachers are role models, and they don't stop when school gets out," said Credle, whose daughter attends Lockmar Elementary in Palm Bay. "If you don't want people to see it, why post it? Odds are it's going to get out."
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    Teachers have a different standard. It is fascinating to read this newspaper article and also the responses. Our students on Flat Classroom project and Digiteen will be reviewing this information because teachers are held to a higher standard online.
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    Read this to understand that teachers don't really have a personal life online.
Becky Novak

Social Networking in Education - 0 views

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    This website is from a project similar to our Flat Classroom Project. It has a lot of information regarding the impact social networking has on education at the elementary, middle/high school and college levels.
Kyle Correa

The World Wide Web and Education - 0 views

  • EXAMPLES OF EDUCATIONAL USES OF THE WWW
  • Elementary teachers often like to use a thematic approach to an integrated curriculum.
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    This article outlines the advanced communication apeects of the world wide web.
Vicki Davis

The Metasaver: Virtual Coupons! Save BIG! | The Story of My "Second Life" - 0 views

  • 12 Oct 2008 @ 07:34 am · No Comments ·
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    Second life is a virtual online world and part of undertsanding how the world is connecting online. This blog is by Kevin Jarrett, an elementary teacher and expert in this area - we can contact him as Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Lindsay and some of the other teachers know him. Virtual worlds are just one way people are connecting online, but a way not to miss.
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    For you second lifers out there - there are virtual coupons for things in second life now. Kevin jarrett shares them all.
Vicki Davis

FRONTLINE: growing up online: readings and links | PBS - 1 views

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    Bookmarks from the growing up online series for parents. These are links to the major websites for online safety.
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    Links to the major places for internet safety online - this is part of the movement to teach people of all ages how to interact safely online.
Miller S.

One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its mission is "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."[1] Its current focus is on the development, construction and deployment of the XO-1 laptop.
  • To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
  • OLPC lists five core principles:[7] Child ownership Low ages. Both hardware and software are designed for elementary school children ages 6–12. Saturation Connection Free and open source
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    This is the wikipedia description of OLPC. It consists of many aspects of the project.
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    The concept of OLPC is a fascinating one. There are many issues with trading inside Africa but perhaps the coolest aspect of this is the "mesh" concept where one computer literally grabs internet off another OLPC that is nearby. The hand crank is also very cool as well.
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