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A Roadmap for 'Net Navigation: Cybersafe, Cybersmart Kids

A Roadmap for 'Net Navigation: Engaging and Educating Cybersafe, Cybersmart Students
Angelo Bonavitacola, Marc DeBlock, Harold Olejarz	The Internet is a powerful information and educational resource -- but effective education on safely navigating the Web gains importance daily as more and more cyberdangers surface. The Eisenhower Middle School's Tech Team innovated an effective project through which their students develop their own student-focused Internet safety videos. The success is shown in the videos themselves as fully engaged learners knowledgeable in Internet safety create and communicate video messages to illustrate cyberdangers and cybersolutions for their classmates and others. Learn about the Eisenhower School Internet safety project and its creators View some of the student-created Internet safety videos Access Nortel LearniT's extensive Internet safety video curriculum and cybersafety lesson plans
How do they do it? When the Eisenhower School Internet Safety Project began with Tech Team teachers, Angelo Bonavitacola, Marc DeBlock and Harold Olejarz, joining forces to develop a sixth-grade Internet course to address these issues and to encourage students to be active learners by using the latest technology to learn about the latest technologies. To produce the videos, the students view online videos, visit web sites and discuss Internet safety topics. The students begin by developing a storyboard in ComicLife, a MAC OS program designed to create comics. Students then use digital cameras to capture images that are added to their comics. When the comics are completed the pages are exported to iMovie. In iMovie the students add voice-overs, sound effects, titles and transitions to complete the Internet Safety project. Many of the student videos have been or will be shown on ETV, Eisenhower's morning TV show. ETV is broadcast to the entire school and the town of Wyckoff. In addition, the videos are posted on a resource web page that includes links to sites with information and other videos on Internet safety. This Internet Safety web site was also used in a presentation to seventh-grade parents. During the presentation it was suggested that parents watch the videos with their students and use the experience to begin a dialog on the issues raised in the videos.
View Eisenhower School Cybersafety Resources on the Eisenhower School Internet Safety site (right column). See kids' engaging video topics which include: Chatroom Safety Cyberbullying Meeting People Online Rewind - Online Safety Safety of Selling Online Texting Gone Bad Detective Interview - Online Safety
Nortel LearniT's Technology-integrated, Cybereducation Resources Nortel LearniT-created online safety video tutorials and video production video tutorials cover Passwords, Identity, Cookies, Spyware, Firewalls, Viruses, and Wireless (how to set up and secure your network). Nortel LearniT's cybersafety lesson plans (located on its English/Language Arts lesson plan menu) include: Cybersafety; Viruses, Popups and Spam; Cyberbullies; Cybersafety--the Dark Side; and Web of Deceit (Internet information that is biased, false, or with misleading or hidden messages). Nortel LearniT video skills training tutorials on video production including capturing, editing, titles and effects, and exporting videos using the iMovie technology used by Eisenhower School, may be found on the Video Production home page.