1. Welcome to the Teachers’ CyberCitizenship Blog

Welcome to the Teachers’ CyberSafety Reflection Blog.  This Blog has been created as a collaborartive repository for pre-service and BTSA teachers to post reflections based on prompts generated from the CyberCitizenship WebQuest.

Add comment Posted in  WebQuest Prompts July 28, 2008

2. Information Fluency Reflection

1. Which search engine do you prefer? Why?
2. What was the strength of your choice and the weakness of the other?
3. Would you recommend using either or both to a friend?  A colleague?  A student?  Your family?   Why or why not?

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3. Information Literacy Reflection

Looking at an authentic and a bogus website that you viewed during this exercise, compare the obvious differences between the two, and identify characteristics that define each type of site.

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4. Cyber Safety and Privacy Reflection

“There are many ways young people can lose their privacy on the Internet, and all have their own dangers.  What are some of  the most common mistakes students make when posting their personal information on the web?”

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5. Cyber Bullying Reflection

How significant are the following concerns:

1. How significant is the concern of cyberbullying for you and your students?
2. Could cyberbullying be occurring when students are using school computers?  If it could, when?  If not, why not?
3. Could students post material online that appears to threaten violence?  If they could, when?  If not, why not.  What can you as a teacher do to keep the ‘peace’?

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6. Social Networking Reflection

How is your school and/or district dealing with MySpace and  similar social networking sites?   Are the sites blocked at your school?   Check that.  Are your students forbidden to have accounts on such sites — at home or at school?   Are your students allowed to participate in online social networking, but    taught online safety at the same time?   Is teacher use of social networking sites allowed within the district?  Forbidden?

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7. Cyber Ethics Reflection

Why is CyberEthics so important?  Reflect on your work with fair use, copyright, piracy and plagiarism.

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8. Cyber-Citizenship Reflection

Exactly what is CyberCitizenship? Describe the term in detail.

Add comment Posted in  WebQuest Prompts July 22, 2008