internetsafety

=Integrating Internet Safety Into the Curriculum= From the legislation: "The Internet safety component must be integrated within a division's instructional program."

**Today's Take Aways:**  **Using the Internet Wisely:** **What Do We Know?**
 * Internet Safety is **much more** than just protecting kids from predators. Schools may deal more with cyberbullying that takes place outside of school time.
 * Internet Safety in school should focus on making students **better users of the Internet** for learning. It may incorporate such things as research skills and visual literacy.
 * Internet Safety in school should be **ongoing**, incorporated every time students use the Internet and, when appropriate, mentioned as part of non-digital activities as well.
 * What Do You Know About the Web: http://www.classzone.com/books/research_guide/page_build.cfm?content=prequiz&state=none
 * Internet Safety Quiz for Adults: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=714

 Find a hoax at Snopes: http://snopes.com/ Fact Check a Wikipedia article: [|http://www.wikipedia.org] Review Kathy Schrock's guides and choose one to use with your students: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html Practice using the web evaluation with one of these sites:
 * How's Your Visual Literacy?**
 * Look Closely: http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/?nid=YMg1pq2saTGeNNTQXrX7qTkzMzU3Nw--&referred_by=17265230-5Ub1fYx
 * Hoax or Real? http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html
 * Activities**:
 * http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/Beluga.htm
 * http://www.dhmo.org/
 * http://burmesemountaindog.info/

Find an activity at NetSmartz:http://www.netsmartz.org/resources/activitycards.htm Request a presentation from NetSmartz: http://www.netsmartz.org/Presentations/ Find an Internet Safety Video from TeacherTube and download it: [|http://www.teachertube.com], (You can use Zamzar to download and covert videos: [|http://www.zamzar.com)]

 Cybersmart: http://cybersmart.org/home/ NetSmartz: http://www.netsmartz.org/overview/howtousens.htm iSafe: http://www.isafe.org/ 
 * Resources from the Department of Education:**
 * [|Guidelines and Resources]
 * [|Ideas for Integrating Internet Safety]
 * Other Good Starting Places:**