Internet Safety

Capstone II continues to be challenging. This week we are asked to blog about our schools efforts to teach Internet safety. Recently my eighth grade class developed a PowerPoint for the FBLA competition that was sent to headquarters in hopes of winning the PowerPoint competition and this year’s topic was Internet safety. The students were given several websites to study and were also given a video to embed into their PowerPoint. The class was divided into four groups and each group worked hard to prepare their best presentation. The students then shared their presentation with the class. This activity worked so well, I am going to continue using it each semester. We also discuss digital ethics in our Internet Multimedia Class and Internet Marketing Class. In addition, we discuss internet etiquette in each class sharing how it is important to give credit where credit is due. 

Furthermore, our principal hired a police officer to come to our high school to talk about Internet safety and sexting. Additionally, each year, our parents are invited to an Internet safety seminar conducted by our school. Finally, our guidance department just sent home a PowerPoint sharing the importance of Internet safety which also had tools parents could use to keep their students safe.

The readings in Capstone II are endless. One website that I enjoyed this week was Netsmartz. The website was created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The website has information for educators, parents, teens and tweens. Take a few minutes and take a look.