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
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
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.
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!
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.orghttp://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.