Websites
Voice Thread:
https://voicethread.com/about/features/
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Kerpoof:
http://www.kerpoof.com/
What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:
Teaching Online Safety:
Welcome to the Web
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/
Is a series of lessons for teaching young
students how to navigate the Internet. There are seven lessons
in the series although the first lesson is really just an
introduction to the site. The other lessons in the series teach
kids the basic vocabulary of the web, online safety, and search
techniques. The series concludes with a challenge exercise in which students test their new
knowledge and skills. Every lesson in the series comes with an optional worksheet in PDF form.
Own Your Space
http://www.ownyourspace.net/
Is a free, sixteen chapter ebook designed to
educate tweens and teens about protecting themselves and their
stuff online. This ebook isn't a fluffy, general overview book. Each
chapter goes into great detail explaining the technical threats that
students' computers face online as well as the personal threats to
data that students can face online. For example, in the first
chapter students learn about different types of malware and the
importance of installing security patches to prevent malware
infections. The fourteenth chapter explains the differences
between secured and unsecured wireless networks, the potential
dangers of an unsecured network, and how to lock-down a
network. Download the whole book or individual chapters here.
PBS Kids offers the Webonauts Academy in which elementary
school students can learn about safe online behaviors. When
students have completed all of the Webonauts missions they
will graduate from the Webonauts Academy. The educators tips
page offers some practical suggestions for using Webonauts in
the classroom or in a school library.
LMK Life Online
http://lmk.girlscouts.org/
Is a website created for the purpose of
educating girls about online safety. LMK Life Online is
sponsored by the Girl Scouts and Microsoft. On the site
girls can learn through articles and videos about protecting
themselves from online predators. Girls will also find
lessons about cyberbullying and online privacy. After reading the articles and watching the
videos, girls can test their knowledge through interactive quizzes.
quizzes.
The Google Family Safety Center
http://www.google.com/familysafety/
Introduces parents to and shows them how to use Google's safety tools including
safe search, safe search lock, and YouTube's safety mode.
Google has partnered with a number of child safety
organizations to develop educational materials for dealing
with topics like cyberbullying, strangers online, protecting personal information, and avoiding
malware online. Finally, Google's Family Safety Center contains a collection of videos featuring
Google employees sharing the strategies they use with their own kids for teaching online
behavior and keeping their kids safe online.
Virginia Department of Education
http://www.inobtr.org/coolsites/internet-safety-with-professor-garfield/
The Virginia Department of Education has produced an
engaging and useful site for teaching students web
safety lessons. Internet Safety With Professor Garfield
currently offers an animated lesson on cyberbullying and
an animated lesson about online safety. As you might guess from the site's title, the lessons
feature Garfield. Both lessons use the same model in which students watch a cartoon, take an
informal quiz, then try to apply their new knowledge to a few different scenarios.
http://jmowens.edu.glogster.com/dashboard/
Electronic Posters
https://voicethread.com/about/features/
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Kerpoof:
http://www.kerpoof.com/
What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:
- Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
- Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
- Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
- Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
- Tell a story
- Make a drawing
- Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made
Teaching Online Safety:
Welcome to the Web
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/
Is a series of lessons for teaching young
students how to navigate the Internet. There are seven lessons
in the series although the first lesson is really just an
introduction to the site. The other lessons in the series teach
kids the basic vocabulary of the web, online safety, and search
techniques. The series concludes with a challenge exercise in which students test their new
knowledge and skills. Every lesson in the series comes with an optional worksheet in PDF form.
Own Your Space
http://www.ownyourspace.net/
Is a free, sixteen chapter ebook designed to
educate tweens and teens about protecting themselves and their
stuff online. This ebook isn't a fluffy, general overview book. Each
chapter goes into great detail explaining the technical threats that
students' computers face online as well as the personal threats to
data that students can face online. For example, in the first
chapter students learn about different types of malware and the
importance of installing security patches to prevent malware
infections. The fourteenth chapter explains the differences
between secured and unsecured wireless networks, the potential
dangers of an unsecured network, and how to lock-down a
network. Download the whole book or individual chapters here.
PBS Kids offers the Webonauts Academy in which elementary
school students can learn about safe online behaviors. When
students have completed all of the Webonauts missions they
will graduate from the Webonauts Academy. The educators tips
page offers some practical suggestions for using Webonauts in
the classroom or in a school library.
LMK Life Online
http://lmk.girlscouts.org/
Is a website created for the purpose of
educating girls about online safety. LMK Life Online is
sponsored by the Girl Scouts and Microsoft. On the site
girls can learn through articles and videos about protecting
themselves from online predators. Girls will also find
lessons about cyberbullying and online privacy. After reading the articles and watching the
videos, girls can test their knowledge through interactive quizzes.
quizzes.
The Google Family Safety Center
http://www.google.com/familysafety/
Introduces parents to and shows them how to use Google's safety tools including
safe search, safe search lock, and YouTube's safety mode.
Google has partnered with a number of child safety
organizations to develop educational materials for dealing
with topics like cyberbullying, strangers online, protecting personal information, and avoiding
malware online. Finally, Google's Family Safety Center contains a collection of videos featuring
Google employees sharing the strategies they use with their own kids for teaching online
behavior and keeping their kids safe online.
Virginia Department of Education
http://www.inobtr.org/coolsites/internet-safety-with-professor-garfield/
The Virginia Department of Education has produced an
engaging and useful site for teaching students web
safety lessons. Internet Safety With Professor Garfield
currently offers an animated lesson on cyberbullying and
an animated lesson about online safety. As you might guess from the site's title, the lessons
feature Garfield. Both lessons use the same model in which students watch a cartoon, take an
informal quiz, then try to apply their new knowledge to a few different scenarios.
http://jmowens.edu.glogster.com/dashboard/
Electronic Posters