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Week
26: Selecting & Evaluating an Online Project, Internet Safety |
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Before beginning your exciting online collaborative adventure or whenever you
use the Internet, dont forget to do two very
important things: surf safely and think
critically. Todays interactive and enormously fun online
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Surf
Safely!
Working in groups of three, you will view Disneys
Interactive CyberNetiquette Comix to research and record
Internet safety rules. Each member of your group will have
a role to play. Follow these directions to start the fun!
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Assign
roles for each member of your group. The oldest student in
your group will be the Leader,
the next oldest will be the Recorder,
and the youngest will be the Keyboard
Operator.
Understand
your roles before linking to Disneys CyberNetiquette
Comix.
Leader: Encourages
and keeps the group working together while viewing
CyberNetiquette Comix. Leads the group in identifying
specific Internet safety rules.
Recorder: Writes
down the safety rules identified by the group while
viewing the Comix. Give your group 5 points for every
rule on the list. Youre not allowed to use the
same rule twice.
Keyboard
Operator and Mouse Controller: The
only group member allowed to operate the computer.
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How
many points did your group score? Did your group have the
highest number of points?
Think
Critically!
What you see isnt always what you get. You
can be fooled by information on the Internet just as easily
as you can by some of these optical
illusions (Exploratoriums Online Exhibits). After
checking out a few illusions,
move on to MUYOM and play Ten TechKnow Questions with
a mystery Web site.
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Lets play Ten TechKnow Questions! (Hey, youll learn stuff
like this: A cockroach can live a whole week without its head!)
Open the Ten
TechKnow Questions Popup in one window and load this mystery
Web site in another window. Make the mystery Web site window larger
than the Questions window. With both windows open on your screen,
you and a partner will try to answer as many of the questions as possible,
and then "Make
Up Your Own Minds" about its credibility.
In other words, do you accept the information on the site as being true or
inspiring trust?
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