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Digizen: Cyberbullying: Let's Fight It Together

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Video tells the story of a young teenager who is subjected to cyberbullying-repeated hostile, harmful, and harassing attacks directed at individuals though technological means (Internet, mobile phones, social networking sites)....
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Wabash College: Introduction to Network Etiquette

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Wabash College gives rules not only for internet etiquette, but more specifically for etiquette concerning networks. This site is particularly relevant to college students.
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Other

Personal Site: One to One Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides users with essential information on developing personal communication skills through mail and talk.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: The Change You Want to See

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Research shows that happiness in life is less about what you do and more about why you do it. When your actions have purpose, they lead to positive results -- both for you and the world. Help students use the power of the internet to...
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Article
Get Safe Online

Get Safe Online: Use a Firewall

For Students 9th - 10th
Firewall software forms the first line of defense against hackers and certain types of computer viruses. This site explains what a firewall can do to help secure a computer and what it cannot do. The site also discusses different types...
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Putting a Stop to Online Meanness

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] The internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. With this role play, help your students understand why it's often easier to be mean...
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Online Course
Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Course B

For Students K - 1st
Learn the basics of computer science and internet safety. At the end of the course, create your very own game or story you can share.
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Online Course
Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Course A

For Students K - 1st
Learn the basics of computer science and internet safety. At the end of the course, create your very own game or story you can share.
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson Plan: Powerful Passwords

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn the benefits of using passwords and then play a board game to discover some strategies for creating and keeping secure passwords. Requires free membership.
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Childnet International: Digizen: Social Networking

For Students 9th - 10th
Most students participate in social networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter. This site presents the benefits and risks of using social networking tools in education. The site also presents examples of successful...
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Other

Wosu Public Media: Are You Digi Fit?: Choose to Be Positive With Others Online

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson teaches children how to behave appropriately when interacting with others online. They are guided in understanding how their words can be perceived by others online and how to deal with an online bully. Includes links to two...
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Other

Cic Online: Cyberbullying: Identify and Respond [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th
With this resource, learn how to know when cyberbullying is happening and how to confront the problem. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Build Your Ideal Community: Grades 6 8

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will consider the characteristics of positive online communities that promote responsibility and respect. Requires free membership.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: My Creative Work (K 2)

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn the basics - title, name, and date - for crediting creative work. They discuss the importance of citing work, as well as recognizing that they should give themselves proper credit so that others can attribute their work...
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Tips for Good Passwords

For Students 9th - 10th
This article presents common mistakes for creating insecure passwords and provides advice on creating strong passwords.
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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Net Smartz Kids: The Boy Who Loved Im

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Clicky tells the story of a boy who loves to IM his friends. What should he do when he receives a message from someone he doesn't know? [1:59]
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Other

A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative site offering a comprehensive definition of e-mail and its uses. Also covers formatting, page layout, gestures, formalities, intonations, and greeting and signatures used in e-mailing.
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Article
University of Hawai'i

University of Hawaii: Network Etiquette

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by the University of Hawaii. Information on network etiquette with information on not sending chain mail, spamming, and other Usenet inappropriate uses.