Aug 02 2009
The Best Sites For Learning Online Safety
One of the first “The Best…” lists I created was The Best Eleven Websites For Students To Learn About Computers. I included two-or-three sites about online safety that were accessible to English Language Learners on that list. Since that time, though, quite a few additional resources have become available, so I thought it was time to make a list entirely devoted to that topic.
You can also find these links, along with many others, on my website under Computers.
Unfortunately, most of the sites on this list — except for the first one — might be considered a bit too “childish” by teenage and adult English Language Learners. I didn’t include others that might be more mature, but they had people speaking too fast or didn’t offer audio support for complex text.
Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning Online Safety (and are accessible to English Language Learners):
Think U Know has a good animated and audio Cyber Cafe that older ELL’s would like.
The Northwest Learning Grid has a collection of games teaching online safety.
The Welcome To The Web section on Staying Safe is very good.
Brainpop has a free movie on Internet Safety. Brainpop also has a Digital Citizenship page that periodically has other related movies available at no cost.
Privacy Playground uses “cyberpigs” to teach online safety in an animated adventure.
Netty’s World comes from Australia, and is a series of animations about online safety.
Sid’s Online Safety Guide is pretty exhaustive.
Safe Kids has a decent online safety quiz.
If you still need more cybersafety resources, the place to go is a page at New Jersey’s Belmar Elementary School’s website. Kevin O’Donnell has put together an exhaustive group of links together.
As always, suggestions and feedback are welcome.
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http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html
Not sure if cyberbullying fits this category, but I find this site helpful because it is organized by age.
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Hi Larry
Northwest Grid is part of the National Education Network.
http://www.nen.gov.uk – follow the esafety link to see more of the work we’ve undertaken. You may find the audit tool and ‘esafely’ vid particularly useful
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I love you site and visit daily. I will check the Internet Safety links out. I have a pretty good list going at http://www.belmar.k12.nj.us/Default.asp?Section_ID=204
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I have found NetSmartz to have great resources for multiple grade levels as well as parent presentations. WiredSafety also has good information and activites to use in the classroom. Between the two sites, I have taught a 3-4 week class on internet safety.
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