Washington, D.C.

Doing the internet safety

I spoke with my spouse about Internet safety. The conversation was both valuable for planning and easy because we agree on many points. Some points we agreed upon were 1. we will have one desk top computer which will reside in a public area. No laptops until students are headed to college. 2. Chat sites will be off limits, but our kids may chat through their e-mails. This will limit their conversations to people they know from school. 3. No virtual/reality games, our kids will not live life vicariously, we expect them to live the life they want.

Some other points that came up were - providing a good model for internet use, having open discussions about using the computer and internet, having internet competent kids, having a good support network so our kids will have somewhere to turn to in case of an emergency.

Internet Articles

What article did you choose to read for your fourth article?
- Fighting Internet Filth by Mario Hipol
What were the most important things you learned from the readings?
- That playing on the internet to simply waste time is a bad use of the internet! Not only that, but it increases the probablility of running into inappropriate material. Also, that we need to educate our children about giving out personal information online.
How will what you have read influence your actions as a parent and/or teacher of children and youth?
- As a parent, I would invite my children to sit with me while I'm on the internet, that way I'm providing a good example for internet use. As a teacher, I need to be up to date on internet games and tools, otherwise student's will disregard anything I say about the internet because "She just doesn't understand."
How can you use what you have learned from the reading to have a positive influence on family and friends?
-Invite my husband to share what he's reading with me, that way I show interest and don't isolate his internet use.

Two Best Ideas

1. Using clickers to chart a student's progress
2. Using a powerpoint to introduce vocabulary for guided reading

Powerpoint

Here's my powerpoint. It shows the triumphs and tragedies of teaching with technology - it's pretty awesome.

IP&T Powerpoint

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Smartboard

I didn't take any pictures while using the ELMO, so a couple days later I taught another lesson, this time using the Smartboard. I tried to do an interactive math lesson where students were working at their desks with manipulatives and one student would go to the smartboard and write the answer to the problem. Follow up was a worksheet - the objective was doing division with skip counting.

Technology Ideas

So... I used an ELMO in my lesson today. It went really well. I used it for a shared reading activity. We read a poem as a class and then did an adjectives activity with the poem. I also used it to project sentences on the board for the students to add adjectives to. ELMOs may be sweeter than SmartBoards...haven't used the SmartBoard yet, but I'm going to soon. Good Luck everyone.