Mary's+Cyber+Safety


 * [[image:Picture_1.png]] [[image:Picture_3.png width="298" height="147" align="left" caption="National Center for Missing & Exploited Children"]]

As part of the [|No Place for Hate] campaign through the [|Anti-Defamation League]

 * The objective of the lesson is to make students aware of the consequences of their behavior on the internet with specific focus on their behavior on social networking sites like FaceBook or MySpace
 * Students will collaborate with create 60-second public service announcements to use to make the whole student body aware of the consequences of their behavior on social networking sites like [|FaceBook] or [|MySpace].
 * Students will peer evaluate the PSA's and select the most effective ones to be aired on school television station and, school permission can be obtained, posted to [|YouTube] or [|TeacherTube]

**Technology which will be used (blogs, wikis, RSS, Flickr, etc.)**

 * Students will use wikis to collaborate on the planning of the psa's and for writing the script
 * Students will use internet sites find data to support their scenario's for their psa's
 * [|The Anti-Defamation League]
 * [|National Center for Missing & Exploited Children]
 * Students will use Comic life to create story boards for their psa's
 * Students will use digital cameras to film the stills and video footage for their psa's
 * Students will use GarageBand to record voice-overs and any other sound they want to use in the psa's
 * Students will use GarageBand to record voice-overs and any other sound they want to use in the psa's

**Description of what behavior is expected of students**

 * Students will internalize the following three actions from [|NetSmartz.org] to be observed when interacting on social networking sites:
 * 1) I will tell an adult I trust if anything makes me feel scared, uncomfortable, or confused.
 * 2) I will ask my parents or guardian before sharing my personal information.
 * 3) I won't meet in person with anyone I have first "met" online.
 * Students will work collaboratively to create the project
 * Divide labor
 * Script production
 * Audio production
 * Video production
 * PSA assembly
 * Communicate through wiki discussion
 * Encourage each other
 * Students will observe copyright law. This is an interactive flash about [|copyright]

Process or steps for teaching (i.e., what you will actually do in the classroom)

 * Prior to the class meeting, set up the wiki with a page for each group. Have students create appropriate names for their groups that will not disclose their names.
 * Introduce the idea of cyber predators and cyber bullying through students' prior knowledge and the 3 actions put forth by NetSmartz.org (see description of student behavior)
 * Introduce the project and the permission/agreement letter that they and their parents will need to sign and return prior to the beginning of work on the assignment.
 * Introduce the idea of a public service announcements by showing some that are familiar from television
 * Introduce the assignment and the wiki set up for this project
 * Review use of ComicLife as a story boarding activity
 * While students are working on the project, use the history and discussion areas to monitor what students are doing. If intervention becomes necessary, use this as a teaching moment and take appropriate action to correct
 * Introduce rubrics that teacher and students will use when giving feedback and assessing the projects and the process.

What actions you will take and how you expect your students to respond if they find inappropriate content

 * If students find inappropriate content, I expect that they will report it to me or another adult who is present. Although our firewall at school blocks much of what could be inappropriate, we all know that no firewall is perfect. But when students come upon inappropriate material, my responsibility is to
 * be certain that the student's safety has not been compromised: that the student has not given personal information or any other information that would lead a predator to that child's identity
 * notify the manager of our school network of the specific site that breached the firewall, the time, student, laptop and cart #.
 * follow directions of the network manager

Citations for any sources used, if applicable**
AntiDefamation League. "101 Ways to Combat Prejudice." 2001. http://www.adl.org/prejudice/default.asp. 3 March 2008. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. "NetSmartz" 2007. http://www.missingkids.com/. 3 March 2008. Richardson, Will. __Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms__. CorwinPress: Thousand Oaks, CA. 2006.