My First Screencast

Students often ask for help when they are confronted with the task of setting up a document in MLA format. Most of our computers are currently running Microsoft Office Word 2010, so I used Jing to create a narrated screencast of how to start a document in MLA format.

Cyber Safety

For the past two weeks, I have been presenting Cyber Safety lessons to the Freshmen at McLane High School. Other names for these lessons are Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying. The web includes many resources for interactive, free lessons to help students make good choices when they are on the web. I have bookmarked some of the sites on my Diigo Cybersafety Page. Here are two very compelling videos that come from the Safe Florida Cyber Safety Project. The first is Justin's Story. He shares how cyber predators began to take advantage of him when, at 13 years old, he installed a webcam on his home computer:


The second video is Alicia's Story of how she met a man online who lured her from home then abducted and enslaved her: