Be 'Cyber Safe' on the Web and Electronic Devices 

CYBER SAFETY VIDEO FEATURING HILTON STUDENTS AND STAFF

CYBER SAFETY - Educators are increasingly using the web as a resource for learning, but the web, PDA [personal digital assistant], hand-held devices, cell phones and the vast accessibility to information and interconnectedness lend themselves to significant pitfalls for the unwary.  Teachers in the Hilton School District integrate the lessons of good behavior on the web and other devices in the classroom and computer labs.  It is the District's goal to inform parents and guardians of the important role they play in helping their children navigate the web safely: understanding online friendships, learning to use and value the resource of the Internet, and knowing how to politely converse with others online and other devices.  Communication devices and online opportunities take many forms and are available 24-hours a day.  Important milestones for children include learning how to use their time valuably, how to make and keep friends, how to recognize and deal with 'cyber bullying,' online predators and other issues. Accomplishing this is both a school and a home lesson. 

WEBSITES ABOUT CYBER SAFETY including child-oriented teaching videos:

NetSmartz

SafeKids 

Missing Kids

Cyber Safety Committee - Quest - Andrea Moore; Village - Linda Davis, Mike Strauss; Northwood - Liz Thornton, Kristen Zale; Merton Williams - Kevin Markman, Angela Boccuzzi-Reichert; High School - Jason Cring, Kristin Pikuet ;Lori Burch – district wide; facilitators: Patti Sullivan, Scott Wilson.

KNOW YOUR TERMS: "Web 2.0" refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design which increases communication, information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the web leading to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services and web applications including social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and more.  Among the educational uses of Web 2.0 are:

Book-Oriented and Library-Oriented Social-Networking

Library Thing - Users' libraries are connected through tags. Visitors can subscribe to a library's RSS feed and get notifications when users update their libraries or add a review. You can join groups, and a new feature called LibraryThing Local helps you make connections to your community's book-related events. It's like being part of a huge book club.

Goodreads - This is a social site where users can keep track of their books, write reviews, connect with friends, and see what those friends are reading. It's a place for people to spread the love of books; catalog your library online; find friends who are into books so you can discuss literature, get recommendations, and share your interests, an efficient and fun way to further your passion for reading. After you've signed up for your free account, the first step is to begin cataloging what you've read. Log in and start searching for your favorite books. The library database is extensive.

Wiki - A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.  Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge-management systems and knowledge management systems. The term 'Wiki' is an Hawaiian word for 'fast.'  Some of the current Wiki engines are: MediaWiki , TikiWiki and DokuWiki

Hilton CSD Cyber Safety Wiki - http://hcsdcyber.pbworks.com/

Social Networking Online - A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web-based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant-messaging services. Among the more popular are:

YouTube - video sharing site

LinkedIn - business/professional site

Facebook - social sharing site

MySpace - social sharing site

SlideShare - presentation sharing community

Moodle - Moodle is a free and open source e-learning software platform, also known as a course management system, learning management system or virtual learning environment. Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that people can develop additional functionality. Development is undertaken by a globally diffused network of commercial and non-commercial users, streamlined by the Moodle company based in Australia.

Hilton CSD Moodle - http://extranet.hilton.k12.ny.us/moodle/ 

Mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs [application programming interface] and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. An example of a mashup is the use of cartographic data to add location information to real estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web API that was not originally provided by either source.  

Message Boards, Forums, Blogs, IM [Instant Messaging], RSS Feeds

Internet Forum, or Message Board, is an online discussion site. It is the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web application managing user-generated content.

IM [Instant Messaging] is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via devices connected over a network such as the Internet.

Blog, a contraction of the term weblog, is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.  Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online dairies. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art - artlog, photographs -photolog, sketches - sketchlog, videos - vlog, music  - MP3 blog and audio - podcasting.  Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts. Blog search engine: Technorati

RSS, most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication," is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel" includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.