Full day learning on Smartboard
Well, Friday is the day. I am heading to visit Ros, who is going to help me design some lessons for my Smartboard to use with my new class when we get back to school. Yesterday and today, I visited many websites and blogs that already have lessons to use and hints for writing lessons using Notebook software.
My first lesson is going to be about Internet safety and I would love to embed some videos or podcasts into my lesson. I visited the website where Faux Paw shows students how to be safe on the internet . Perhaps my students could design a wiki about Internet Safety. Or they could produce something similar to a Voicethread program I saw on creating new American Holidays but use different rules for being internet safe.
I don’t know what these students already know about being internet safe or how often they use the computer both at school or outside of school, so perhaps a survey would also be interesting to organize.
WOW!! This is going to be so much more interesting than photocopied sheets or standing in front of the class and lecturing.
I’d be really interested to hear about the resources you come up with.
I was at a conference on Monday looking at young people’s online safety – and there is real confusion (at least in the UK) about the right messages to give out at the moment and the best way to get those across.
Resources from here: http://www.bebo.com/Safety.jsp might be useful in looking at safe social networking.
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Have you looked at Cyberquoll?http://www.cyberquoll.com.au/hub.htm
Its a good one to put on any blog you’re sharing with students.
Through Classroom 2, I have been discussing getting a collaborative project going with Kate Olsen from USA – similar age students to you and me. Interested?
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Here are some Internet safety sites:
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans
http://safekids.com/
http://www.180techtips.com/61.htm (has good video)
Jim
Sharing is Caring!
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I almost forgot about this powerful video:
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=97eeae6788aa3348e553
Cheers!
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G’day Tim – Certainly is confusing about the right things to say to our so called “techno savvy teenagers” of the 21st century, There was a great discussion on Classroom 2.0 about just how to present info on internet safety. http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A9074
G’day Christen – I hadn’t seen that site when I googled for internet safety – maybe it is too recent compared to the tried and true American sites – when I looked at it it certainly was very informative especially once you got to teacher resources and how to plan lessons with the kids.
G’day Jim – thanks very much for those sites – they were both good videos – had seen the “Think before you post” at another site already.
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Hello Dear, I know this doesn’t have to do with your blog. But wanted to say thank you for stopping by mine. And commenting on the Girl Scout Cookies. Too Bad you can not get them where you live !Hope you visit again soon
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