"Phishing, Trojans, Spyware, Trolls, and Flame Wars-oh my! If the idea of these threats lurking around online makes you nervous, then you can now be at ease. Our Internet Safety course will provide you with the strategies, skills, and mindset needed to protect yourself, your computer, and your privacy when you connect to the Internet. "

"Practicing safety is a must with anyone who goes online, but with kids it is especially important. This tutorial will discuss the threats your kids may encounter while online and show you how protect them and talk to them about being safe and responsible. "

15 Lesson plans for teaching proper Google searching. Created by Google

"If you are teaching with one, a few, or a class set of iPads, finding the right apps and project ideas for your students can be a challenging task. We've organized some of the best resources from Edutopia and beyond to help you figure out what tools are best for your early elementary school students. Explore different ways to integrate technology into your instruction!"

"Some of you are still probably not sure about the difference between what constitutes a copyright infringement and fair use. Well the post I have for you today might help illuminate the key differences between the two concepts. This post is based on  a two days work reading a wide variety of resources pertaining to copyright and fair use. Please check the references below to learn more about my sources."

"These tools deliver a wide array of functionality, from communication to collaborative document editing, whiteboards, and gaming, to full Learning Management System capabilities. There's something here for everyone! Dig in and enjoy!"

"Come and learn about the Google Apps Scripts - FormEmailer, Doctopus and Autocrat. FormEmailer - Create a Google Form and provide feedback to students based on their submissions. Doctopus and Goobric - Your digital copy machine to distribute Google Docs to your students and grade them with a digital rubric. Autocrat - Create a Google Doc based on individual submissions on a Google Form. "

Great for mixing answer order on in-class quizzes - "This week the Google Drive team announced a great update to Google Forms, allowing you to randomize answer options for a number of different question types. If you've been paying attention, Google has released a bunch of of updates to Forms in the past year, taking it from an extremely limited survey tool to a pretty comprehensive option. It still doesn't serve all needs as of yet, but these recent changes are much appreciated."

"Google Drive is absolutely one of the essential tools in your teaching digital tool kit. Using Google Drive you can have both a cloud storage service available for you anytime anywhere together with a powerful productivity suite that includes tools to write a document, create a drawing, build a presentation, or make a spreadsheet. Now with the syncing functionalities Google introduced lately, you can start a document or presentation on your desktop and finish it in school on your iPad. For me personally there is nothing that beats it even Dropbox and Evernote are not as practical as Google Drive ( personal view )."

8 simple guides to getting the most out of Google Docs - great reference and guide for beginners

"Google Docs provides many ways to go paperless through sharing and collaboration options. There is not just one single right way to use Google Docs for a paperless classroom. Rather there are many tools and features that can be used on their own or in combination to meet your varying needs. This guide will cover many of the most common ways that Google Docs can help teachers and students move away from paper and into a digital-only environment."

"Google Drive  provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."

"Yesterday the Google Drive team announced one of the biggest updates to Docs and Sheets that we've seen in a long time. The new Add-ons feature for Docs and Sheets makes it really easy to bring some advanced functionality, or just some missing features, to your most important Drive files. With this new Add-ons feature comes a brand new marketplace with dozens of options to choose from. We suggest playing around some of them to see which ones fit your specific needs, but there are a few that we really like already. Check them out below, or you can learn how to add these tools to your Docs and Sheets in this video."

"Technology Connections of the ELA Common Core Standards As we delve into the ELA common core standards, we notice the technology embedded into them. This document highlights the explicitly stated technology within specific grade leveled standards. It should be noted that technology, as a tool, can be used in the other standards as well."

"Newer social apps make it easier, faster, and more fun to capture and share fleeting moments -- sometimes anonymously. These temporary and anonymous-messaging apps provide an environment that feels more appropriate to the random, silly, saucy, and experimental sides of the average teenager. Perhaps most importantly to teens, these apps can feel consequence-free. But of course they're not. Data never really disappears, and anonymity carries big risks. If you don't recognize the apps your kid is currently obsessing over, here's what you need to know:"

Official NYCDOE student intervention and discipline code. Beginning on page 17 are the K-5 discipline infractions and appropriate responses. Among other things it outlines the various stages of cyber-bullying and the possible intervention strategies and outcomes.

This document, the Student Social Media Guidelines along with the Social Media InfoGraphics (which will be released in 2014), provides information about how to use social media responsibly, both within and outside the school community by: - Outlining recommendations for healthy social media communications; - Providing ideas about how to create a smart digital footprint; and - Informing you about what to do if you become aware of dangerous postings or other hurtful information.