Internet and online safety (e-safety) and digital literacy are huge issues that students need to understand and learn about. A member of my PLN shared this site with me yesterday.

"E-Safety Resources – supporting teaching Digital Literacy" is a site in the UK that has a huge collection of resources to help educators teach, and students to learn, about internet safety and digital literacy.
Internet Safety Resources - help students stay safe online

Discovery Education Web 20.11 - great internet safety resources.

Google Good to Know - online safety and data info

Google Family Safety Center - help promote safety online.

Web safety resource

Google Plus now open to Teens, with safety features

PBS Teachers - Excellent Resources for Educators - has resources on internet safety

10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have

Top 10 Resources from Discovery Education - all free - internet safety lessons too

Kitzu is a great resource for finding "Digital Kits" for education. These digital kits are zip files packed with resources on the topic. The kits have PDF files with information, summaries, and resources. The kits also have picture files, musics, video (depending on kit) that can be used. The materials are all copyright-safe.

The resources are sorted by grade, K-12, and subject, English/Language Arts, Math, History/Social Science, Dance, Music, Science, Theatre, and Visual Arts.

You find a kit for the grade level and subject area, research the topic, and then create a video or media project using the resources.

This is a great resource for teachers to find lesson ideas and resources, or for students to use to research different topics.

It was developed by the Orange County Department of Education (CA) and anyone can create and submit kits.

Digital Learning Day is February 1, 2012 and is a year long national awareness campaign to improve teaching and learning through the use of digital tools and technology.

The site asks for people to participate and sign up, but also has some great resources for educators, administration, and more. Resources are in toolkits and include Project Based Learning, lesson plans and ideas, collaboration tools, and much more.

You can sign up and participate, or just use the resources with your classes.

Google, one of my favorite resources as an educator, has another great resource for students and teachers.

The Google Digital Literacy Tour is a curriculum developed by Google and iKeepSafe that educators can use in the classroom to teach online responsibility to students.

It is a fun, interactive curriculum with hands-on activities and scenarios and is broken into 3 parts. Each part as PDF downloads for educators and students, along with lessons and videos. There is a guidebook for the teacher, along with videos and presentations.

The three parts are: Detecting Lies and Staying True, Playing and Staying Safe Online, and Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks.

This is a great resource to use with students as you teach them cyber-skills and computer use. It is also a great resource to share with adults who may not know enough about cyber-safety and use.\


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Google Resources for Educators

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Zooburst is a fun tool that lets the user create a digital story in a 3D pop up book. There is a free account available, but if you are going to use this with your students a lot, the paid versions offer a huge amount of class management features.

The books are online and all you need is a web browser with Flash. You can use items from their database or upload your own. The books are truly 3D and you can rotate everything around using your mouse. Items can also be clickable, opening up more information about the item. You can share your book via a link or embed them in a web page. You can even use your webcam to create an augmented reality book.

There is a gallery of books that you can view for ideas. There is also a very good support page.

This is good for any grade level and teachers can even use it to create help resources for their students. Use it for presentations as an alternative to PowerPoint. Use it for creative writing.

Get your students doing some digital story telling in a fun way.

Check out the gallery for some examples.