1. Safe Internet Usage in the Classroom Lynne Schalman The Original Teaching Company Summercore@nobles.edu

2. Avoid Net Recreation  In school, Net use should be limited to educational pursuits  Ban recreational activities including fantasy baseball, shopping, chatting  Web use should be restricted to the school’s system: no use of AOL or Earthlink accounts

3. Issues to Consider: An Overview  Who should make these decisions?  Who will be updating the approved sites?  Do you want to rely on third party decisions?  What kinds of content is the issue? –Pornography, violence, hate groups, weapons  How to use Teaching Moments

4. Don’t Fence Me In  Students need to be fenced in  Create a safe home page  Create a safe list of favorites  Investigate kid-safe index pages and search engines –Kid Safe Search SitesKid Safe Search Sites  Surfing rather than directed activities –Grade level variations –Using Software Links

5. Be Proactive  Faculty meetings to discuss what ifs  Guidelines for consequences in AUP  Educate parents

6. Educate Students  Rules about privacy for oneself and others  Definitions of appropriate and inappropriate content and behavior  Guidelines for what information can be shared  Being careful about strangers and no Chat rooms  Post the rules  What to do if they arrive at an inappropriate site  Develop critical skills: Internal Filtering and Blocking  Grade Level Appropriate Internet Usage Licenses

7. Monitors On  Where are your Monitors?  Teacher Monitoring? –Supervised Internet Usage –Behind the Scenes checking In Netscape: about:global Check History Check Cookies  Software Monitoring?

8. To Filter or Not To Filter  The Problem with overblocking  The Challenge to underblock  Filtering Software –Safe Surfin’Safe Surfin’  Enable Browser Content Controls

9. Curriculum Integration is the Key  Webquests  Specific Research projects and activities  Limit number of Web Sites allowed for bibliography  Integrate Web as a magic whiteboard tool

10. Other Issues  Plagiarism  E-mail netiquette  Time Wasters  Gender Matters  Evaluating Web Pages