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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers The internet has provided teachers with numerous tools to enhance their students’ learning experience. These threats can spread to others as well via infected devices and documents, multiplying the damage within a short time. However, it’s not without a few downsides.

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World Password Day — It’s Today!

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Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. It’s a great activity for class when addressing internet safety. Password Generator — enter the parameters you’d like for your new password (i.e.,

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Acceptable or Responsible? What’s Your Use Policy?

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Thus, these documents often become vast lists of ways users can get themselves into trouble, followed by an extensive pyramid of possible consequences. As BPS worked to update its policy, staff quickly realized that policy language was not kid friendly, and students were signing off on documents they simply didn’t understand.

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World Password Day — It’s Coming!

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Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. It’s a great activity for class when addressing internet safety. Password Generator — enter the parameters you’d like for your new password (i.e.,

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Essential Guide to Digital Citizenship for CIPA and E-Rate

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But complying with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) -- a requirement of E-rate -- doesn't have to be. It's important to stay organized and document your process, especially to be prepared for an E-rate audit. To prepare for an audit, be sure to: Stay organized by keeping your documents and files in one place.

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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

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The student data covered by FERPA includes any files, documents, or records in other formats that contain information directly related to a student. Kevin then moved on to work as an education technology specialist and headed a district’s student data privacy, internet safety, and security initiative.

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Class Tech Tips: Teaching Digital Citizenship with Adobe Spark

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From Internet safety to commenting in online spaces, there are lots of topics to consider when deciding how to best prepare students for an online world. For example, imagine your students create a video documenting a recent field trip. Digital citizenship is an essential topic for students to understand.