Internet Safety Assignment

1. I chose to read the article Mixed Signals in the June 2001 New Era.
2. One video resource I watched was McGruff the Crime Dog. He showed the cat Faux Paw going into a chat room and agreeing to meet with someone he didn't know. The cat was met by a huge dog that was supposed to be a small cat. The cat was saved, but was lucky to be saved. McGruff then gave advice about the Internet.
I also watched Katie's story about how she met a 22 year old guy online that wanted to stay at her house. She later had to testify against him.
I also watched a couple PBS videos about Greg and how he spent so much time online and couldn't stand to be away from his computer for very long. It talked about all the things that kids and teenagers do online like cyber bullying, relationships, post pictures, talk and be more obscene then they would in person.
3. My most important take aways from what I read and watched are that I need to be even more careful than I was before. I have only been into a chat room once and it was other friends, but I need to never go in one again. I also learned that I need to be pretty strict about the Internet with my children and to for sure limit their use with it. I also need to teach my children that they cannot give out any personal information whatsoever and to tell an adult if they come across something that they shouldn't.
4. i. He said that you need to have porn filters with passwords that your children do not know.
You are never supposed to give out personal information because phishers will try to look for passwords to try and steal your money.
Do not give out your credit card number unless you are positive that you trust the site.
ii. His reaction to what I shared for the most part was that he already knew what I was telling him. He works with computers for his major so he knows a lot about internet safety. He told me a way to close inappropriate sites without shutting your computer off.
iii. What surprised me about his reaction was that he knew so much more than I did. I thought that he wouldn't know that when you click on a pornographic site and tried to close that it would cycle through more pictures. He didn't know that the definition for explicit material was not given to music companies just that they had to have an explicit label.
iiii. I think that he will be more careful about giving out his personal information and that he will download legally appropriate and uplifting music. He will also think about what he wants to do with the internet regarding his children.

TPACK Project Report

VIdeo Teaching

http://educationplease.pbworks.com/Video-Teaching#
Here is me teaching visualization in reading to my students.

Websites for my Technology Based Lesson Plans

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dvh35p2_5c4btc6vw

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dvh35p2_4f6tvxzcd

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dvh35p2_3f69rrzdt

Technology with Little Children

I learned that there are many different way to implement technology in the classroom that i even appropriate for little children. I loved that in the Spider video they made a website that they shared with a class in another state. I thought that it was so awesome that they got to interact with students in a different state and to see the various spiders in a different part of the U.S. It looked relatively easy to make the website to share the information with the other class.

I learned that in using a book you can draw pictures on the computer to illustrate and create a new that book that is based on the original book. I thought that it was a great idea to have the students write a new book and to use the computers to draw their pictures. Sometimes it can be monotonous to alway draw pictures, but doing it on the computers gives it a new exciting spin on it.

I learned that you can have students create a slide show to teach others about certain subjects, such as habitats. It's an excellent idea to let the students teach and this is a wonderful opportunity to do that. I learned that students are not just limited to power points for what they can use and be exposed to. I need to be more conscious of their desire to use technology.

Technology in the Classroom

My initial reaction to the amount of technology that my mentor teacher had access to was that it was a minimal amount. I think I am used to BYU having a projector for power points in every classroom and Mac laptops for the computers. In the classroom I am in she only has 3 computers to work with and they look pretty old. The school only has 2 projectors that they all share and she doesn't have a t.v. in her classroom. I was kind of surprised at that. She doesn't ever use technology besides the 3 computers, which is understandable since she does not really have access to it. She's a great teacher without technology though.
I have completed both 1 and 2 parts.

Science Projects that I Viewed

http://kyliemm.blogspot.com/2009/10/science-project.html

http://techbrooke.blogspot.com/

http://tecchelsie.blogspot.com/

I learned that I can implement microscopes to study living and non-living things and to study soil. There really are so many things that you can discover with science just by using the technology that we have today. I think it's amazing that children can look at the moon phases or any other night time feature so easily. They can record their findings so much easier with Stellarium and can better see things using the microscope. I think using the temperature probes would also be helpful to learn about temperature in a visual way.