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No Adults Allowed!
12/2/2009
Quilt of Trusted Adults
Working with NetSmartz, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office has empowered children to teach each other about Internet safety. Director of Community Education and Outreach, Cynthia Boyle, shares about their work and what can happen when adults take a step back.
In Massachusetts, Clicky has taken on some additional duties: working with high school students to teach first and second graders how to be safer online. Members of the 2008-2009 Youth Advisory Board (YAB), which consists of high school students from local schools, decided it was time for them to take an active role in helping teach basic Internet safety to the youngest members of their communities.
In addition to teaching with Clicky, YAB members also provide the first and second graders with some hands-on classroom projects that reinforce the safety messages they learned from Clicky. While in the classrooms, YAB members lead discussions with the first and second graders about who a trusted adult is and create a list of the students’ answers. Then, each student is given a quilt square and asked to draw a picture of their trusted adult.
When the students are finished with their drawings, YAB members tie the squares together creating a Quilt of Trusted Adults. Each class keeps their quilt to hang in their classroom for the rest of the school year. Finally, an awards ceremony is held, where the YAB members give each student a Clicky certificate of completion and an activity book to take home.
Through teaching lessons about Internet safety, the YAB members have those concepts reinforced in their own lives. It is just more one step that our community is taking towards helping every child stay safer online.Some Real NetSmartz Kids
11/25/2009
The students at St. Thomas Aquinas School know what it means to be safer online. Watch them use their NetSmartz in this Internet safety skit.
Have you made your own Internet safety video? Let us know! You could be featured on our blog.
Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch: Google Apps for Education overview - 0 views
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If I were to set this up again, I might simply create three domains-- one for staff, one for the middle and high school students with email turned on, and one for the younger students with email turned off, but with log-in access to Docs and Sites, to allow collaborative work to take place in a closed environment. You do not need to have email turned on to use these tools.We used the last two digits of YOG-last name-first initial for the student accounts. In addition, so their real name did not show up in the header of mail they sent, when setting up the accounts, I used the YOG-last name for the last name of the student and their first initial for their first name.
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Kathy's notes on setting up Google docs for education
A-Z Cool Tools - 1 views
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Web 2.O tools. View it full screen so that it is easier on your eyes. Click the mouse to zoom in on one to read.
TeachersFirst Resource Listings - 0 views
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The goal of Signed Stories is to increase the literacy of deaf children; however, it is a great resource for all children. After choosing a story, you will see the text, hear the story and see it in sign language. Almost 100 titles are available and can be searched by topic or by browsing all titles. Some stories offer more options than others. Many stories have pause and rewind buttons, so you can replay to see signs again. 10902 In the Classroom: Use stories on the interactive whiteboard or projector to teach story elements - pause as the story is read to allow students to retell details to the stopping point then make predictions of what will happen next. Help students understand disabilities and adaptations to disabilities through watching the stories being told in sign language. This is also a great resource for students with deaf/hearing impaired parents or students/teachers trying to learn or practice sign language. In sign language classes, consider creating your own signed story videos for children's books and share them on a tool such as TeacherTube [ http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=9419 ]reviewed here.
Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! - Shelfari - 0 views
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Online book manager virtual bookshelf account for teachers (student must be 13) Teacher can create a classroom account. Give a class login. There can be 20 logins on one account at the same time. At the end of the year add books to read for the summer. Put it as a page as a classroom blog students can write a review but doesn't have their names.
Internet safety & civility | SafeKids.com - 5 views
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A good site to check out
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Internet safety & civility Curriculum teaches digital literacy and citizenship Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | Child safety | No Comments by Larry Magid This post originally appeared on CNET News.com In my more than 15 years in the Internet safety field, I’ve seen a lot of programs designed to teach children how to use the Internet safely, but many have missed the mark because they too often focus on children as victims or at least passive consumers rather than as participants in our digital culture. But in this Web 2.0 world, kids aren’t just consuming media, they’re creating it and they have collectively embraced social media as a part of their lives. They don’t go online; they are online–whether on a PC, a mobile device, a gaming console, or whatever comes next.
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Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch - 1 views
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The Google Docs Viewer allows you to email a link, place a link on your Web page or blog, or embed a stand-alone viewer to read PowerPoint, PDF, and TIFF image files directly in the browser. Right now, if you put a link to a PowerPoint presentation on a Web page, it has to be downloaded and opened with the PowerPoint software on the user's computers. And PDF and TIFF files will not open in a Web browser, either, and require software on the local computer to read these file formats.
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Numeracy: The educational gift that keeps on giving? - 1 views
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This site is worth checking out, not only for this article, but for other links on this page. Click on math puzzles to the left to see a study about gender equity in math.
mailcatch.com - 0 views
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MailCatch is an email service that allows you to create temporary disposable mailboxes, in a completly anonymous way. When you are asked for an email by a website and you do not want to give your (for fear of spam), you can simply give whatever mailbox name you want on the mailcatch.com domain (like whatever@mailcatch.com). Then you come here, type in the mailbox name and check your mail. We get the spam, not you! The ultimate anti-spam service!
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Disposable Temporary Email Addresses - AntiSpam Temporary Inbox at MailCatch.com - About
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Good to use with younger students who don't have email but need one briefly in order to sign up for an account on the Internet.
Instructional Strategies Online - 0 views
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Information on a variety of instructional strategies. Site mentioned in summer reading book. Click on "interactive instruction" or either instructional methods links on the left side of site to find specific strategies.
Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning - 0 views
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Use to create on line learning sites.
lyricsKissYourBrain.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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lots of songs on lots of topics...verbs, human body, and more
This is your brain on sugar: Study in rats shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning,... - 1 views
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Something to chew on...
TeachersFirst: Comics Resources - 0 views
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[ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]Wrap it in the Comics Looking for a great year-end wrap up? Why not have students or the whole class create a comic-style summary of major concepts or personal learning favorites from the year? Find terrific tools and comic starters in [ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]TeachersFirst's Comics Resources. Even primary grades can help create a comic as a whole class activity. Share the results on your school web page or as summer take-home links or printouts.
chris' wiki web 2.0 tools - 2 views
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CommonCraft has presented another tutorial on youtube called "Podcasting in Plain English
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handout on igoogl
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VoiceThread
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Clairvoy's iste Bookmarks on Delicious - 0 views
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Click on the links to see examples of elementary students using web 2.0. This is an ISTE Link
Learn It In 5 - Diigo - 0 views
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How to video on Diigo
Flip Cameras - 0 views
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Digital Wish - Flip Ultra™ 120-minute Camcorder 2-for-1!
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Buy one get one free!
All Kinds of Minds - 0 views
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Good article on identifying and helping students with handwriting problems.
The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 0 views
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Interesting Article on Creativity shared by Kay Z. Some of you have heard me talking about this article from Newsweek, July 19. I think it is critical to what we do, and I think that it should certainly be used as we focus on DI and UbD, as well as when we look at the curricula across our divisions, and when we look at what we say/do in Admissions and Development.