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eBook Safety on the internet

Webquest lesson plan for Internet Safety

10 ways schools are teaching internet safety
Using third-party resources and having students act as investigators are some of the many ways educators are teaching about online safety and responsibility

A FREE Internet safety and cyber citizenship program for 3rd through 8th grades

Create a video educating people about staying safe and secure online and using the Internet responsibly. The prize? $10,000 for the best overall video, and cash prizes to each best-in-category video for individual and school entries. Meet our winners (as selected by viewers and our panel of judges) and watch their stories from three categories: Being a good online citizen Using a mobile phone wisely Maintaining your privacy online

Another internet safety resource. From the UK.

Below you will find sites to assist you in teaching research skills for all ages.Use the Teacher-Librarians tab at the top to find a megalist of stuff for you.

Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Over 20,000 relevant links personally selected by an educator/author with over 30 years of experience. 

Internet safety- to use: scavenger hunt.

From Jen Blair: Have you ever... tried to print up something from the Internet and it ends up being 8 pages long because of all the "extra stuff" around the edges? Or it's a crossword puzzle that ends up covering 3 pages that you would somehow have to tape together? Don't be frustrated! Save paper! Use: http://www.printfriendly.com/ Simply go to the above site, paste in the URL you are wanting to print, and watch the magic as your 3 page printout somehow gets cut down to ONE!

Advocacy for TL

Free toolkits, lessons, videos for internet safety, digital citizenship, and cyberbullying topics.

QR Code Scavenger Hunts - how to set up and use plus other creations.

Here's information about the Universal Service Program for Schools and Libraries, otherwise known as the e-rate program. A new criteria starting in the 2011-12 school year requires schools to teach students about Internet safety. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2011/08/internet_safety_ed_now_require.html http://statelibrary.mykansaslibrary.org/?p=10298 Five tips for e-rate success: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/11/03/five-tips-for-erate-success/

Banned Books Week is an annual event drawing attention to the concept of intellectual freedom and is celebrated during the last week of September. In 2011 ALA introduced Banned Websites Awareness Day to draw attention to problems Internet filtering can cause. For those who want to promote the event, the ALA Store has posters, bookmarks, t-shirts, and more. http://www.alastore.ala.org http://bannedbooksweek.org/

From the website's About page: "Read It Later lets you save what you find on the web to watch and read on any device, at anytime. It's been called 'a DVR for the web' by the New York Times, Business Week, Time, TechCrunch and more." You can access saved items online or offline, mark them as "read," and more. Use it with smart phones like iPhone and Android versions, with Internet browsers like Firefox and Safari, and applications like Flipboard and TweetBot.

"ebrary is pleased to announce ...our open access collection on cyberbullying. We hope that this collection, which is subsidized by ebrary and now includes over 100 titles, will help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern. ... We ask that you please register for this site so we can better understand its usefulness. You may also visit the site directly." Above is the direct link; this is the registration link (that still allows free access): http://www.tfaforms.com/216765.

Bullying/Cyberbullying: free resources including eBooks

Great search tips!