The class is designed to teach students about web applications, digital citizenship, personal network building, and social media responsibility and practice. This blog will be used to share with our readers the tools, websites, and web resources that students are learning about. We hope that you find a tool that you can utilize.

There are so many web applications available on the Internet that students may not even know exist. In this course, students will explore the Internet and take advantage of all that it has to offer. Students will learn that Google is more than just a search engine. They will discover various web applications that will help make their time on the Internet more effective and efficient. The web applications that will be explored include, but are not limited to: sharing buttons, blogs, avatars, RSS, social bookmarking, photo sharing/editing, audio and video, presentation, drawing, collaboration tools, and screencasts. Internet marketing and shopping sites will also be explored. Students will explore applications of which they can utilize to enhance both their learning and social experiences. Students will learn and practice digital literacy and responsibility, collaborate, share, create, socialize, and organize content, while demonstrating internet safety. Upon leaving this course students will be informed digital learner/citizen!


I LOVE LOVE LOVE looking for new tools to share with my students! I explore the web daily in search of new tools. I also gain knowledge from other Social Media blogs/websites who have found resourceful tools. Thank you to all of those experts who share their love for technology with the rest of us!


I also enjoy looking at the students creativity - through their blogs! My students love exploring Social Media! And will walk away with a collection of tools (their own Personal Learning Network) that will enhance their Internet experience both personally, educationally, and professionally.

Safer Internet Day 2012


Safer Internet Day is organized by Insafe (Europe) each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. 

Safer Internet Day encourages more responsible 
use of online technologies and services.

This year, Safer Internet Day (SID), is centered around the theme Connecting generations and educating each other, with the slogan: "Discover the digital world together... safely!"

With the emergence of smartphones, increased connectivity, and technology in schools and at home, the need for safety education is more important than ever before. Sharing resources and sparking discussion is the best way to educate and grow strong citizens in the 21st century.

Goolge is using Safer Internet Day to launch its new digital literacy portal called ThinkB4U. The project, which is a collaboration between Google and its nonprofit safety partners, Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely.org and the National Consumers League, features "choose-your-adventure" style videos along with targeted safety tips from the nonprofit groups.

Digital media are excellent tools for forging and maintaining healthy and safe relationships. . . As with all tools, how we use them determines whether they provide positive opportunities or expose us to risk.

Digital communications are “sticky.” Anything communicated through digital media remains accessible indefinitely, which is great news when you have . . . great news.

Responsible, resilient digital citizens know to operate under the same good judgement online that they use in their offline lives. The Web may feel like a free-for-all. We must understand the risks that we face from others as well as from our own conduct, and the dangers posed by applications like viruses and phishing.  


Web Resources for Internet Safety.

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