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A neat article from a parents perspective. The article includes tips on how today's parents want to be communicated with and included in their child's education. The article explains in detail about the current generation of parents and why they act the way they act.

"Today's kids connect, create, and collaborate through media. But who helps them reflect on the implications of their actions? Who empowers them to make responsible, respectful, and safe choices about how they use the powerful digital tools at their command? Our Common Sense Parent Media Education Program and our Digital Citizenship Curriculum give educators, administrators, and parents the tools and curricula they need to guide a generation in becoming responsible digital citizens."

Free materials on Internet safety, cyberbulling, digital citizenship, parent materials also included.

Believe it or not, Facebook and Twitter aren't the only cool social networking sites on the Web. If your kids are too young for Facebook, or you're concerned about privacy, consider looking into some lesser-known social networking sites geared for tweens, preteens, and yes, even teenagers. We've rounded-up some of the top social networking sites that allow kids to keep a tighter rein on their privacy. Our choices include sites that limit the ways you connect with friends, offer greater control over how you interact, or home in on specific interests. Some of the sites for kids on the younger end of the scale offer more parental controls, too, so you can have a better sense of what your kid is doing online.

Great site, that offers a Book of the Month. It offers sample questions, test, blogs, etc. For various ages. I shared this site with parents and have gotten terrific feed back!

Integrating Social Emotional Learning in schools.

Welcome! Nourish Interactive is your free one stop resource for fun nutrition games for kids, interactive nutrition tools and tips for parents and health educators to use to promote healthy living for the whole family. Created by nutrition and health care professionals, Nourish Interactive's nutrition education website gives children and families the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices.

Cool site! a free collection of educational videos for students ages 3-18. There are more then 11,000 videos on such subjects as math, science, and history. Students, parents and teachers have designated pages and the site offers a guide for contributors. Featured videos originate from national Geographic, YouTube, and google Videos, among others, and have been endorsed by educators from universities such as Harsvard, Standford, and Brigham Young University.

Looks like a cool site with over 11,000 videos. Free

Advise and asnwers about sexting.

Common sense media has information broken down by grade level. This link takes you to sexting there are resources for educators available on this link.

Create an online community of your classroom Share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts, Post discussions, deadlines, homework Instantly create surveys for students Keep parents informed of daily projects

This site is so cool. I went in and set up an account and added some people to a class. It was so easy. This will be a terrific site for educators. You can set up your students in a private class account. You can then post questions for them to comment to. You can post items on a calendar, bookmark sites you want them to review, hook up with other classes to collaborate and share, create surveys. I think teachers are going to love it. It is free. When you create your account, the information students need to get to your created class is generated by you and as long as you give them the class code and their password they should be able to get in.

Studyladder has put together a collection of fun engaging activities for students. This is a great site to share with parents to have their student access from home.. Put it on your teacher web page.

YouTube101 Privacy Settings, Sharing and More

Interesting on YouTube. Privacy feature. If I am understanding correctly, you can share privately with up to 25 people but remember those people can then share. But it looked like you could invite friends who could then only view it as an invite. I may have to experiment with this.

Best website out there for those of you looking for multiplication flashcards. They can be printed front to back perfectly!

Cool, great site to share with parents.

GetNetWise is an Internet safety site for kids.

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Internet Safety site

This is an awesome website for k-6 teachers to share with their students as a homework resource. Students will love the skills related games, parents will love the learning tips and teachers will love the homework problems and online resources.