Internet+Safety+or+Online+Safety

__Description__ The assignment for Internet Safety or Online Safety was basically about coming up with a lesson plan to teach our students about what it means to be safe online or how to use the Internet safely. The assignment also incorporated us creating an Acceptable Use Policy for our students. Issues that should have been addressed in our lesson included legal, ethical and social issues while using the computer. The lesson should have been geared toward our grade level and should have provided students with information pertaining to legal, ethical and social issues that are relevant to their age and the type of computer use they experience. The assignment is to help aide students from being liable, from being hurt and from risk while using the computer. I also included in my assignment and Acceptable Use Policy some guidelines for behaviors while using the computers or laptops in my classroom.

__ Process __ T he process for me to complete this assignment was actually very easy. As stated in previous assignments, Internet Safety and Computer Use are built into the curriculum that I already teach. I took an existing project that I do with my students on Internet Safety and modified and expanded it to include the requirements of this assignment. I used the lesson plan template for the layout of the lesson and researched the standards I felt the lesson met and included those on the lesson plan. The Acceptable Use Policy came from a policy that I currently use. I did however change the format from a Word document to a Publisher document and updated the policies.

__Reflection __ This assignment was rather easy for me to complete except for the lesson plan portion of the assignment. The lesson plan template or layout was unfamiliar and it was hard to match and document all the areas included in the template. I also found the researching the state standards, the century 21 standards, and the technology standards was difficult. There were so many standards and it was hard to pick the ones that fit the best. I just limited it to the scope of the lesson and tried to pick the ones that I felt fit the more appropriately. Creating the Acceptable Use Policy was actually fun for me to do. I got to use Publisher, which is a program I don’t use very often. I took an existing use policy and updated and created a new one in Publisher. My co-worker who is our department chair saw what I was doing and now wants to use the new one I created for all our classes next year.

Links to Assignments - Internet Safety Lesson Plan and Acceptable Use Policy

