• Digital Citizenship Plan and Computer Refresh Cycle Requirement

    Originally posted September 22, 2014. The computer desktop refresh cycle for schools replaces computers in labs as well as classroom teacher stations. This four year cycle has been in place since the 2010-2011 school year. A requirement for schools to continue receiving these computer refreshes is that Digital Citizenship and Safety needs to be planned […]

  • Web Literacy Presentation for District Leadership Team Meeting

    Topics Browsers Search Engines What makes up a URL (protocol, domain name, file path) Strategies to check a URL (legitimate, users, whois etc) Shorten URLs The WWWW of evaluating web content (presentation) Search Engines http://www.google.ca/ http://quintura.com/ http://quinturakids.com/ http://search.yippy.com/ http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html#links http://kids.aol.com/ http://cybersleuth-kids.com http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/ http://www.askkids.com/ http://ca.altavista.com/ http://www.bing.com/ http://www.kidsclick.org/   Which one of the following is real? http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ […]