Internet Safety Rules Using Empressr

Internet Safety Presentation

Objectives

  • Students will understand what it means to safely “surf” the internet.

  • Students will be able to define technology, in regards to using the internet safely.

  • Students will be able to research a given site.

  • Students will be able to create a power point presentation demonstrating what they have learned about internet safety.

METS

  • CI.2- Create a project using a variety of applications and formats

  • DC.2- Discuss issues related to acceptable and responsible use of technology

Introduction

Students will be introduced to internet safety. To do this I will do the following:

  • We will view Faux Paw the Techno Cat video

  • Students will then be introduced to NetSmartz.org. Using this site, we will view a couple of the internet safety videos and discuss the importance of “safely” using the internet and how to safely surf the net.

  • Students will then be allowed to explore Netsmartz.org. While exploring this website, they will be required to take note of a minimum of 10 internet safety rules.

Assignment

Step 1

    • Open up a new Microsoft Word document and number it 1-10

    • Take some time to explore NetSmartz.org (play games, watch videos, etc). You should explore both the Kids and Tweens sections.

    • While you are exploring NetSmartz you will need to infer (or figure out) the internet safety rule that each video and or game is trying to teach you about.

    • When you figure out a safety rule, you will need to type the rule out in your Microsoft Word document.

    • You will need to explore and discover a total of 10 rules.

    • Once you find all 10 rules, save your Word document as Internet Safety Rules into your My Documents folder.

Step 2

You will now take what you learned in Step 1 and create a 12 slide Presentation using a free, web based application called Empressr.

Instructions:

You will first need to create an account:

Ø Go to Empressr

Ø Click on Sign Up Now

Ø Choose a 6 character Username

Ø Type in your first name & last name

Ø Enter an Email Address (if you do not have one you can just make one up)

Ø Choose and enter a 6-20 digit password (your student number would make a great password

Ø Re-Enter your password

Ø Check the box that says I am over 13 years of age and accept the Terms of Use

Ø Select Submit

Ø Write down your username and password somewhere safe so that you don’t forget them.

Requirements For Your Presentation

Slide 1- Introduction or Title slide. You will have the title Internet Safety Rules, your name and hour. Don't forget to add a background, picture, graphic, an/or image.

Sides 2-11- Each slide will contain 1 internet rule that you discovered when researching the NetSmartz web page.

You MUST then add at least 1 background, picture, graphic, an/or image to each slide and 1 transition to each slide.

Slide 12- Bibliography: Go to Citation Machine - This is where you will be creating a citation for the NetSmartz website that you used to explore and research your internet safety rules.

    • In the column on the left, select Web Document

    • Fill in the blank boxes as follows:

- Author or Editor Name(s): These two boxes should be left blank

- Type of Webpage: Netsmartz Workshop

- Title of Website: Netsmartz Workshop/Gaming

- Date Published or Last Revised: 2010

- Publishing Organization: Leave Blank

- Date Retrieved : This is todays date (the date should already be entered automatically)

- Web URL: http://www.netsmartz.org/Parents

    • Click Submit to create your citation. Remember, if you cannot locate ALL of the information for the image/picture that is okay, you will just leave the boxes of the information you cannot find blank. The title, year, and URL are the most important.

    • Copy (CTRL + C) your completed citation.

      • Go to your Empresser and add a text box to slide 12. Add a colorful background and then a text box.

    • Click INSIDE the text box and paste your completed citation into the text box (CTRL + V).

      • Make sure you save your work. To do this you will click on Save->Save As

      • You MUST give your presentation a title in order to reopen it.

Be sure you change the colors, size and style of the font on each slide. Do not forget to add backgrounds, transitions and pictures/images to each slide.

To access a presentation that you already started: Log into Empressr and click on Edit underneath the presentation that you wish to work on.

Sharing Your Presentation:

In order to get a grade on this assignment you MUST email me your presentation.

· Click on File-> Save and Publish to publish your presentation

(Make sure Public is selected)

· Go back to your main Empressr page (www.empressr.com) and click on

My Empressrs on the top of the page

· Locate your completed presentation and click on Email

In the Recipient Email field type maurusja@d7.k12.mi.us

· In the Subject field type Your First Name, Last Name AND Hour

· Click Send

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