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Exploring different types of web filters for K-12 schools

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The most basic kind is a search engine’s web filtering feature. Search engine filters A search engine filter restricts search engine results so that obscene websites or URLs with inappropriate content are not displayed. This type of filter is a feature that’s available as part of the search engine.

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169 Tech Tip #51 Find Public Domain Images

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Today’s tip: Find Public Domain Images. Sub-category: Internet, Security, Search/Research, MS Office, Google Apps. Q: I know ‘fair use’ allows students to use most online images for educational purposes, but I want them to know how to find public domain pictures for everyday, non-school use. Category: Images.

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17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

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Best practices now suggest that instead of cocooning students, we teach them to be good digital citizens, confident and competent in 17 areas: Cyberbullying Digital citizenship Digital commerce Digital communication Digital footprint Digital law—plagiarism, copyrights, fair use, public domain Digital privacy Digital rights and responsibilities Digital (..)

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100+ Websites on Digital Citizenship

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Digital Search and Research. Fair use/Public domain. Digital Footprints. Digital Privacy. Digital rights and responsibilities. Digital Passport. Digital rights—sharing info. Fact Checking. Web Literacy for Students Fact Checker –a free online book. A Fair(y) Use Tale. Image Copyrights. Images—Free. Internet Hoaxes–Fact vs. Fake.

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Summer Reading Online

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Gutenberg Project This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). Readers search by title, author, country, or category (or several other options such as ISBN). Kids can even watch book trailers before making a selection. Access this catalog via the website.

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3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Students are unfamiliar with search operations that can help them to narrow down their search results. For example, they can use quotes around phrases to do a verbatim search and limit their results to resources with that exact wording. They should ask questions like, does this website have an author?

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Last Chance for this College-credit Class (MTI 557)

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Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. digital search/research. To enroll, click the link above, search for MTI 557 and sign up. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. cyberbullying. digital commerce. digital communications.