Misty

I chose to explore and report about the Cyber Tree House [|__http://www.cybertreehouse.com/__] website. This website is full of fun activities for younger kids that help them understand the safety of cyberspace. This website has enjoyable music and great animation that is appropriate for the younger age. The tree house has videos, games, smart and uncool information, and how to be cyber safe. By picking a new topic, you climb through the tree house. It has a memory game that challenges you to beat ones memory time. It has a smart cyber quiz to see how knowledgeable one is on the rules of cyberspace. The cyber slide puzzle is very challenging. One has to slide the puzzle pieces into the correct place while the clock is ticking. The videos are age appropriate and help the younger learners to understand about cyberspace. We all need knowledge on what we should or should not being doing on the computer. The smart and uncool questions will remind you of things you should be paying attention to while on the computer. Being cyber safe gives other external websites to explore the digital world of the internet and computers. I would use this resource in a lower level classroom when talking about the rules of being online. I would introduce this site to the class and briefly go through some of the more important topics listed on the menu bar. After talking about some of the ideas listed with the class, I would let them explore the site and play the games and let them challenge themselves with some of the questions. After giving them time to explore, I would then hold a question session and let them ask about things they do not understand. Once this session is over, I would give them a short quiz about what we just talked about. This quiz will help me to assess the students understanding to see what areas the class is weak in. To assess the students understanding would be fun by using clickers on a smart board. I would give them one question at a time with a few seconds to answer it. I think they would enjoy using the clickers better than if they had to use a pencil and paper. The smart board will also let me know instantly the percentage of the classes understanding and what areas I need to emphasize on. I think I would continue to give a quiz until the percent showed a high class understanding. Hopefully, my teaching skills would be great and I would only have to give the quiz once or twice.