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Digital Citizenship lessons for students and teachers

Thanks, Mekca! We spend very little time teaching Digital Citzenship. I think it needs to be embedded in every teacher's curriculum. There are so many "teachable" moments that present themselves that could be linked to proper social media usage. This is going to be an excellent resource for me to share with my fellow educators.

This is an excellent source for me to use in my Teen Insights classroom. We started with a unit on bullying... then cyberbullying... I think we're missing the point- students just need to learn to be good digital citizens! I will use this source to build my curriculum. I appreciate that the curriculum is geared towards students but that it gives teachers and parents good background as well. Parents are a huge part of cyberbullying problems. Much of the conflict we have in school has to do with something students do online at home and then carry those hard feelings with them to school. I do not have resources similar to these. The video that my curriculum used to show warned students to avoid chat rooms and to only choose names that gave no indication of their age, gender, or location. It's good for students to stay safe, but the world has become much more familiar and personal with technology. Our curriculum needs to adapt to keep up.

Videos that show teaching strategies based upon content area. After watching the video, teachers will integrate new techniques.

Videos that show teaching strategies based upon content area. After watching the video, teachers will integrate new techniques.

This teacher/blogger is funny and honest about the happenings in her classroom. It is a good read for people who love teaching but are having a burnout day.

This teacher/blogger is funny and honest about the happenings in her classroom. It is a good read for people who love teaching but are having a burnout day.

Multimedia poster/collage - could be used by student or teacher to present /share info

An alternative to the standard poster or other presentation tools. This is a highly interactive and customized digital poster board. Teachers are able to set up student accounts that are linked to their teacher account for FREE!

An alternative to the standard poster or other presentation tools. This is a highly interactive and customized digital poster board. Teachers are able to set up student accounts that are linked to their teacher account for FREE!

This website uses primary sources to teach the humanities to students. It is great for lesson plan ideas and has a strong focus on concepts rather than facts. Teachers can use it in the classroom by downloading the sources from the website. Teachers can either use the given questions or apply their own.

This website uses primary sources to teach the humanities to students. It is great for lesson plan ideas and has a strong focus on concepts rather than facts. Teachers can use it in the classroom by downloading the sources from the website. Teachers can either use the given questions or apply their own.

A current list of useful technologies, by Dr. Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College (Canada). Since he keeps it up-to-date, this would be a useful source in the classroom for experimenting with and evaluating the latest apps.

A current list of useful technologies, by Dr. Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College (Canada). Since he keeps it up-to-date, this would be a useful source in the classroom for experimenting with and evaluating the latest apps.

This Wiki contains a list of web links to other great instructional technology web resources.

This is an editable wikispace is directed towards teaching mathematics. It's strength is in the references it makes to some great books to purchase

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

One of the most popular resources for teaching basic programming. The platform is web based and simple enough to get started with that students would need little to know instruction to get started. The site offers many resources for teachers and students, and there is also a downloadable version to use when internet is not available.

Holt Interactive has a collection of graphic organizers created for teacher use.  There are also teaching notes with lessons and tips on how to use them in the classroom.

Wibiki offers teachers a great way to organize their online teaching materials in one wiki page similar to Symbaloo.

This blog is continually updating with new ideas for the classroom in several different learning areas and different grade levels.

This site has a wealth of well-written lesson plans and attached materials.

This was a great resource during my first years in teaching! I still love peeking at it for lesson ideas!

I think I will give this one a try! I watched the tutorial and looks easy to organize work, personal and school to-do lists.

I just signed up for this application. As a busy teacher, and now a busy graduate student, I need a place to compile all of my thoughts. Without a 1:1 initiative this would be hard for students to use. It seems best adapted for laptop and computer use. It does teach good skills, however, like breaking up big tasks into smaller tasks, and writing an outline. This system reminds me of Getting Things Done, which is based on a series of file folders. I have tried creating something similar with Evernote. Maybe this program and Evernote would play nicely together? I will give it a try and write a blog post about it if it works.

This site allows you to read an online document and highlight the information you are reading. It also allows you to take notes.

I really like this website! I use my SmartBoard often in class to highlight text to demonstrate main idea or important details. I would like to see what this looks like for students. It would be a great teaching tool for students to find main idea or practice researching for a paper. It would be very beneficial for teachers to see how students are highlighting main ideas in texts while also taking notes. Have you used this before? And how successful was it for students?

Sarah - I am new to using both Diigo and Scrible, so I did not realize all of the similarities between the two. I really like how you can highlight things with Scrible. Are you able to do the same with Diigo? Those were some of the same reasons I thought this would be a useful tool as well.

A writer for Education World and an advocate for ELL students. His blog highlights great current issues and trends, including Web. 2.0.

A writer for Education World and an advocate for ELL students. His blog highlights great current issues and trends, including Web. 2.0.

I know many schools have used this but it is all archived online for use. Students can learn about current events and then share what they learn with others.

Kenton - We used to be a channel.one school, but stopped viewing it last year. I love the current news - but hated all of the commercials. Can you view online without all of the commercials? This site reminds me of newela.com. It is a wonderful site for reading current non-fiction articles and is also related to common core standards. I like that you can select the reading level for students on the article. You can create classes and assign readings and it has quizzes, too. I haven't used any of those features. I just used the articles for read-alouds and they were high interest. I can see Channel One working well for history, but also for English. We need to teach students to be critical viewers as well as critical readers. Let's face it - a lot of information they will receive (for elections, ads of products to buy, etc.) will be visual. They need to know how to interpret information in this medium, too.

Kenton - I agree that this seems like it would be a good tool for students and educators. I think that students could watch the short videos and do reports on what kinds of things are happening in around the world. I think educators could use it to stay more informed as well. I had not heard of this resource before I saw your posting. Do they post new videos weekly? Also, how do they come up with their topics? Do people submit ideas of different topics they would like to hear more about?

A very interesting educational wiki from Akita, Japan. Currently maintained, and looks like useful information no matter what country you're from! (Site in English). This site would be useful to a teacher interested in seeing how other people groups address instructional technology issues.

A very interesting educational wiki from Akita, Japan. Currently maintained, and looks like useful information no matter what country you're from! (Site in English). This site would be useful to a teacher interested in seeing how other people groups address instructional technology issues.

This is a place where teachers can share lessons with each other and get paid for it!  There are lessons for any topic imaginable for most content areas.