What did you takeaway from our digital citizenship night?

While I was preparing my “cyberbullying” presentation, I learned that cyberbullying is only when minors (child/teens) are involved. When adult is involved, it’s considered cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. Also, I realized that teens can hurt others feeling without a serious intention, but the consequences can be serious.

From “copyright” presentation, I learned that as long as it is recorded or written somewhere it is considered copyrighted. Even a 4th grade student’s writing on paper is considered copyrighted.

From “internet filtering” presentation, I learned that combination of “Weighted phrase filter” and “Exception site list” is a good way to use. I have no reason to filter my internet usage now since my children are very young, but I think I should planning on using filtering program in a couple of years. The first video reminded me that if parents don’t monitor the children carefully, they are free to expose anywhere they want on internet which is very scary... I am also worried about peer pressure when my children grow up.

Overall, it was a fun learning experience.

Which resource from my Resource Collection will I use the most?

I think I will use the lunchboxlessons.com the most when planning the details of my lesson. The lunch box site provides creative and innovative lessons for teachers. The site also offers separate pages to parents and students. From short videos to lesson plans, this site embraces various types of subjects with technology.
There are many other sites which I will use for games and making digital zoo book, but I plan to structure my lesson based on lunchboxlessons.com.

What small change might I make to my project to increase creativity?

October 5, 2008

This is a hard question. I get nervous whenever I hear the word “creative” because I am very weak in creativeness. I maybe can change the animal zoo book assignment to a digital zoo book using Kidpix, PowerPoint or Scrapblog. Other than that, I cannot think of anything...

I think it is that time of the semester when people are busy catching up with classes, and I am no exception.