TED8570Spring2013

I Keep Safe is a website designed for parents, educators, communities, and youth. It has a variety of topics to help children stay safe when using technology. It has information for parents on how to ensure their children are using facebook in a safe way as well as other online sites. This site is easy to navigate and is a good resource for internet safety.

This website gives parents helpful tips about cyberbullying, privacy matter, Facebook must knows, say yes to technology, how-tos, software solutions, yoursphere.com and ask Mary Kay. There are lots of interesting tips about the different subject matters regarding electronic devices, social networks, and hoaxes.

This is a product that one can pay to have complete parental control for your child's computer. You can see everything they do online, Parental control of what they do, Easy to use and inexpensive, and Remote Monitoring. The McGruff Safeguard is part of the www.ncpc.org - National Crime Prevention Council.

I-safe is a website that offers help in curriculum, lesson planning, technology support, and even professional support. There are videos, powerpoints, and tons of information and suggestions that are offered and they are all appropriate and approved for teacher use. There are many options that align with standards as well. There is a teacher section, an education section, a store scetion, and a student section that teachers can have students use for extra support.

Webonauts is created by PBSKids.org to educate kids about important skills they need to know when they spend time online. Through the Webonauts Internet Academy adventure, kids pick their suit and helmet to explore different places and make choices that reflect what they will likely encounter while surfing the Internet in real life. Webonauts Internet Academy provides important rules or lessons a kid needs to understand about safety on the Internet with various missions. Each mission offers the child subtle clues on making the right decisions about their online activities. For example, it advises kids to show respect to others and only go to sites where the kid supposed to go. It also embed the idea that one should never giving out his/her passwords, family address, credit card information, or any other personal information to other people on line.

The site provides lots of tips, advice, and suggestions to help parents keep their kids safe and away from the risks online. For example, it provides advice on how to prevent exposure to inappropriate material, physical molestation, harassment and bullying. It even has important information on keeping computer viruses and hacking in check, parental control of family computer, and online dating. The site also provides tools to promote the safety of the kids. For example, The Safe Kids Song serves as a great tool for teaching kids skills on Internet safety; The Online Safety Quiz helps a pre-teen how to be a safe Internet surfer. Overall, this is a very useful website for concerning parents to manage their kids' online activities and to educate their kids on Internet and computer safety.

I believe this is a great resource of information when dealing with the major issue of internet safety. It has a few tabs of how the information is sorted, including: general information, for teachers, for students and for parents. I really like how the information is sorted, but at the same time, all available at once on this site.

This is a website put out by the Nebraska Attorney General. The website has quite a bit of information, including a tab just for Internet Safety information. It talks about quite a few things that are seemingly "no brainers" when it comes to internet safety, but at the same time, if it isn't said to kids, they may not know it. It discusses a few safety tips for parents to give to their kids along with discussing the importance of parental involvement when it comes to internet safety.

This site was created to assist with parenting in a world of technology. Many of our children are wired and connected to an entire world we're unfamiliar with. This site especially helps people if they didn't grow up with the same technologies. These resources can help with any given sub topic regarding internet and children.

This website is about internet safety for young kids and for teens. It talks about the dangers of using the internet without caution and how to avoid danger that can come from using it. There are links that talk about law enforcement and the internet, educators, parents, etc. Some of the issues that children can click on to read about are blogging, cell phones, games, chatting, email, sexting, social networking, predators, identity theft, cyber bullying, file sharing, webcams, revealing too much, and more. This website talks about several problems that are encountered and how kids can avoid them or repond to them if they run into them.

This blog hosts 16 sites for internet safety & children for parents, teachers, and school administration to browse to educate themselves and others about this topic.

This site advocates for children's internet safety education including bullying prevention and other pertinent topics to k-12 students, along with links for instructors of the program, parents, and how to get involved. Very comprehensive site and easy to navigate.

This internet safety sight is from Disney. It is an interactive sight for young children to learn about internet safety. There is an island that children navigate through by answering questions about what information is safe to use on the internet. It is fun and easy for children to use.

Common Sense Media provides a extremely useful guideline for teachers to use Internet-appropriate materials online. It provides lesson plans for grade (K-12) that detail how students and teachers can successfully navigate the dangers of the Internet while provide quality content to the classroom. It also provides reviews of movies, magazines, and television shows that can be used in the classroom. These reviews are based on the age they are most appropriate. It allows teachers to filter the results by age, subject and learning objective.

This website is full of helpful resources dealing with multiculturalism in education. Its contains over 50 websites created to help educators locate resources about multiculturalism. There are links containing resources for a lot of reading and social studies classes. There are several links about geography and people groups, multicultural literature, bilingualism, and even resources on tolerance. This site has great activities for projects and lessons, even pen pals.

This site has a bunch of tips, lesson plans, and activities with a multicultural/diverse focus. I liked the "Internet field trip" idea for giving a quick tour of a holiday, country, or cultural event or trend. Many of the virtual field trips give good lesson ideas.

Common Sense Media Education Programs is a very clean, user friendly and extremely informative website on the internet safety. They provide numerous ways to educate students, parents and other educators on how to stay safe on the web. Its even divided into appropriate grade level sections. There is a blog/forum to promote further discussion and education. There is also a section for related 'toolkits' that help develop awareness of internet and media safety.

On this site, strategies and programs are discussed, that can help parents monitor and set up online boundaries for their children.

This site provides information on COPPA or Child Online Privacy Protection Act, along with other ways that parents can help keep their children's privacy safe.

States the definitions and goals of what a multicultural education in science. Article discusses the learning gap in Education in science especially within urban schools and the importance of improvement in science for these students.

What I took away from this article was that in my classroom I should create a cooperative, stable environment that provided enough time and space to focus student energies on doing science.

Article gives teachers tips and advice to motivate and encourage students in a culturally diverse classroom where science may not be a highly valued subject to students.

I would use this in the classroom by having students actively do science and have them share what they found with the class. This would set a foundation to show them they can be successful in science and can motivate them to learn proficiency in science. Once they know they're good at something they'll put more time and effort into developing that skill.