Rae

__http://www.isafe.org/channels/?ch=ai__ i-Safe Inc. is a non-profit organization endorsed by U.S. Congress. It was founded in 1998. Teachers were the main intended audience but it also reached parents, kids and teens themselves and law enforcement officials. i-Safe Inc offers internet curriculum lessons on safety involving peer-to-peer communication and cooperative learning activities. It also provides a free professional training development program which is offered online or in person, to train and certify teachers. They essentially have a virtual training academy for educators, which offers live interactive online training. It even allows you to privately text message questions to your instructor and get automatic answers on your cell phone. There are videos on the website of how to teach internet safety and the importance of teaching internet safety, etc. You could use the online lesson plans they have for internet safety lessons in a classroom. You could have your students watch the videos about internet safety. There’s a place for kids and teens called the “x-block” which is a place for kids to hang out safely and talk with other students about their online experiences, cyber safety, and learn with each other. You could have your class join i-safe and have peer-to-peer discussion groups online. Students who may be too shy or quiet in the classroom to speak up and exclaim their opinions may feel comfortable discussing through an online discussion. This would also give students a chance to get used to online classroom type situations which they will face in college, if they are high school level students. You could assess the learning through observation by reading their discussions and peer-responses. You could also have a quiz over the information learned online and the videos watched on i-safe.
 * 1) **What is contained in the site?**
 * 1) **How would you use this resource in the classroom?**
 * 1) **How would you assess student learning based on the use of their site?**