On Thursday I am chipping in my 5c into a conversation and ICT celebration at Mapua School. They have invited parents to come along to school and children are going to show them their blogs, Flickr & Delicious sites and other ICT projects they have been doing recently.
Then I am going to have a bit of a chat with them about how to help their children participate responsibly on the internet. To this end I have made a pdf resource that talks of how to make safe Google searches, cyber-safety using Hector’s World, awareness of your digital footprint and a ‘Think Before You Post’ video.
Apart from the content I am particularly pleased with the clever way I have been able to embed the video into the pdf using Adobe Acrobat Pro. Next year I would like to have a go at using this tool to create digital portfolios to add to children’s Google Apps page linked through our school website. How geeky is that!
Fantastic idea, I think we often forget that sometimes parents need scaffolding from us to support learning at home.
Thanks Allanah – we discussed cybersafety in our cluster lead teacher today so I have added your pdf and blog link to our cluster site for teachers to read if they are looking for some resources. http://sustainedictpd.blogspot.com/
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Thanks for this session Allanah. The parents (shame it was only a small number!)there were appreciative of the information and hopefully will spread the word amongst the community. I have sent out your comprehensive handout to all families along with a step by step help sheet to encourage those not at your session to interact with our blogs and other social network tools.
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Your welcome and thankyou for commenting back. My teacher Matthew recommended your blogs for our class to read so I thought I would react to it. They are very interesting. I am glad that the session went well.
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