Internet Safety; New seating chart

To begin today you are all going to be moved to your new seat.  When you get to your new seat you will want to get logged in right away as we have quite a bit of information to cover this week.

This week we are going to learn about Internet Safety.  Internet Safety covers many different aspects of accessing websites and information on the web, and it requires a common-sense knowledge of what to do and what to avoid while you are surfing the web.  This should be taken very seriously - people have been seriously injured (even died), tragically affected by what has happened to them, and some have even lost their homes because they have not practiced Internet Safety.

Your job will be to do research in various ares of Internet Safety and then make a movie explaining what you have learned.  You will be working with a partner (groups of 2 only!) of your choice.  Whoever you choose you need to make sure that it is someone you can trust, and someone who will share half the responsibility of completing the work with you (in other words you don't want to do all of the work yourself!).

Your center of information is located on a different page on the blog - the Internet Safety page.

I will have several videos for you to watch to help you learn a little bit about Internet Safety.  In addition, on the webpage listed above you will find many, many websites that have an abundance of information that you can use for your project.  It would be easy to use just the information listed on this webpage - however it would be perfectly ok for you to find additional information on other websites if those websites are reliable.

You and your partner will be creating a movie for your project.  The website on which you will create your movie is called Xtranormal.  At this website you and your partner will be acting as writer and director of your own "short movie" that will explain what Internet Safety is and how to make sure that you are following proper Internet Safety practices while engaged with the Internet.  I will go over the basics of Xtranormal today in class.

The rubric that we will be using for this project is below (a rubric shows how your assignment is going to be graded - therefore you know exactly what is expected of you when you are creating your presentation).



Once we finish, these presentations will be embedded on your blog as part of your "portfolio" that you will be creating on your blog.  I will have to show you how to do that, and I will when the time arrives.

One thing to note - notice that it does not say in the rubric how long your presentation has to last.  This is not based on time - but is based on the quality and quantity of information that you present in your movie.

I expect to spend this week working on this - I am anticipating this being due MONDAY, JAN. 24TH.  We will be working to complete it by then, which means that you need to work diligently in class so that you can complete it by that time.  It will be due at the end of the hour on that day.