Northwest Career & Technical Academy Foundation
Working Together Digitally
Now that your kids know everything about the world around them, it's time to get them familiar with the importance of connecting and communicating with other people using digital technology. They engage in two different activities that...
Media Smarts
Understanding Cyberbullying — Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
Spend a few days discussing cyberbullying with an engaging lesson plan. Opening discussion questions get the conversation started while quotes and articles continue thoughtful dialogue. Small group activities and role-play scenarios...
Media Smarts
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion?
Divide your class into groups to study the validity of online sources. One group looks at the authority and accuracy of four listed websites, another group looks at advocacy and objectivity, and the third group looks at currency and...
Florida Center for Instructional Technology
Communicating with Mentors
Nothing says 21st century learning skills like an Internet-based collaborative learning lesson plan focused on using technology to compile and synthesize information. An embedded video shows you what collaborative learning in high school...
University of North Carolina
Blogs
The blogosphere may be overwhelmed with content, but there's still room for unique points of view. Creating a blog that stands out, however, is the bigger challenge. A handout on blogs, part of a series of handouts on specific writing...
Media Smarts
Introduction to Cyberbullying — Avatars and Identity
Students explore the nature of cyberbullying. In this cyber ethics lesson, students discuss common online and cyber communication courtesies. Students role-play cyber etiquette, read literature regarding bullies, and discuss methods of...
Curated OER
Hector's World: Details, Details
Students discover what forms of personal information are alright to share online. In this Internet safety lesson, students discuss how they must be careful with personal information when they are online. Students complete a worksheet...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Beyond Email
Learn about the various ways beyond email of communicating and sharing online.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
Other
San Diego County District Attorney: Communication
Teaching young people how to communicate effectively helps them maintain healthy relationships, resolve conflicts peacefully, excel in school, and eventually get and keep jobs. In these lessons, students practice different forms of...
Other
Insafe: Safer Internet Centres: Communicating Respectfully [Pdf]
A 16-page textbook designed to give students in Grades 1 and 2 insights into various means of communication whilst drawing on real-life parallels of rights and responsibilities. Includes coloring pages for students and links to several...
Other
Kidsmart: Games
Test your online safety knowledge about being a safe gamer. Here, you can learn some great tips and find out what to do if you think you're being cyberbullied.
Other
December.com: Net Tools
Provides links and evaluations of dozens of pieces of software, ranging from languages to multimedia to email.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Talking Safely Online (Grades 3 5)
During the course of this instructional activity students learn that while people can develop rewarding friendships online, they should be cautious with online-only friends and never reveal private information without asking a parent or...
Learn My Way
Learn My Way: Using Email
In this online course, students will learn all about email accounts on the internet from how to set-up an email account to how to open, read, and send emails safely.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 8.1: Business Documents
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write for business by understanding style and learning about formatting different documents such as business letters, statements of purpose, resumes, cover...
Other
Texthelp: Making Essential Digital Communications Inclusive & Accessible
Online content is often made inaccessible by our choices in font type, color, and size; the lack of captions on videos and alt tags on images; our use of complicated sentence structures; and, the lack of formatting and structure - to...
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University of Florida
University of Florida: Netiquette Guide for Online Courses [Pdf]
This guide provides tips for how to behave during an online course and just in general when you communicate through the Internet. It looks at password protection, online communication, email, and message boards.
Other
Kidsmart: Social Networking
Test your online safety knowledge about social networking. Here, you can find some great tips and learn the "Smart" way to network online to keep in touch with friends.