Week+6

Week 6 Cyber bulling Article
 * New avenue for students to pursue their childish tormenting
 * Tough to monitor in class unless you see actual evidence, or catch a student using texts to bully someone else
 * Need to educate students that the internet doesn’t give them complete anonymity, and that they need to own their actions, and that they are making a mistake by creating evidence that could be used against them if they’re criminally charged
 * Also educate students that they do not have to tolerate e-bullying, they can remove people from Facebook or block insulting texts
 * As teachers we need to stay up to date on this topic, among many others, as we can be sued for negligence like a local teacher and school board is in Kanata for $350,000 because the teacher allegedly allowed a young female student to be bullied
 * To educate our students we need to build a sense of community in our classrooms where the students will see that it is not alright to bully, and that those who do are dealt with by their classmates so that they see the error of their way

Technology Lesson Plans OERB - Ontario Educational Resource Bank OSAPAC - Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee
 * Learnt about quite a few new things today via the lesson plans that were presented
 * Learnt about [], a website that will produce bibliographies for students easily in whatever style they want, taking the guesswork and hassle out of it
 * Learnt about [], a website that allows you to produce a multi-spatial presentation. Can be useful to students since it is free and allows for online storage so that students won’t have any excuse for not having a copy to present. As well it can be used to organize study notes since students today do not think traditionally and can be all over the place, which Prezi will allow them organize them as they see fit
 * The other presentations were interesting since they were outside of my teachables and I found the lessons entertaining and engaging, especially the science one about Light, Reflection and Refraction
 * Excellent resource for lesson plans
 * Shouldn’t be seen as a teacher replacement, gives good starting points for lessons
 * I will be sharing this resource will my friends in the program so that as many people know about it and are able to utilize it
 * Another tremendous resource for teachers
 * Shows a very good initiative to get good software into the hands of teachers to utilize
 * Also helps to keep costs down as much as possible for schools, freeing up more budgetary funds for other expenditures
 * Allows teachers to potentially find new software that they could use in their classroom, without having to worry about paying for it themselves so they are more likely to look for new software