There are so many resources for teaching kids about safe online practices. Many say similar or the same things. I think it's more a question of finding the right way to say these things to your particular populace than what they need to know.
A checklist;
A simple 'ten tips' sheet;
A K - 12 site for teachers, parents and students with lesson plans and activities;
A list of links for teaching internet safety;
A great site for teens with both animated shorts and corresponding interviews with teens;
An FTC/MSLA sponsored site;
A site specific to sexting, including corresponding criminal offenses;
And a nice site containing tips, power points, rules, games and sample pledges for multiple grades.
And in print:
Leu, Donald J., Deborah Leu and Julie Coiro. Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times, 4th Ed. Christopher-Gordon Publishers. Norwood. 2004.
Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Corwin Press. Thousand Oaks. 2009.
My favorite thing about the Richardson is the sample forms for kids and parents. I would rather students take pledges and make promises, knowing the consequences of failure to follow through, than censor them.
Nice links - a little more annotation would be handy to let people know if it is a new resource to them or something they have seen before (and so wouldn't bother to click). Although it does look so nice and neat with the textual links that the OCD formatting part of me is very pleased! (Don't mock the afflicted!) Nice work.
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