Online Lives

Email Etiquette

• PowerPoint (see online) download PPT
• Using SharpSchool's messaging system (in class activities)
• General email tips (good ones!)
• More detail:
  • Good subject lines (another site -- good examples)
  • Keep emails short
  • Take another look before you send (ambiguities, reply all, cleaning up the email)
  • Most important tips about email etiquette
  • Anatomy of an Email message (TO, subject, message window, Send)
• How Email Works
• Online Etiquette for email (take the quiz)

Passwords - Protecting Your Online Information

• Common Craft - Secure Passwords
• Choosing a good password (download the PPT)
  • Take the practice quiz (participation score)

AUP - Network and Internet Policy

• Acceptable Use Policy
  • Find a copy of the policy in SharpSchool, MyClasses, Files area
  • take the quiz (scored)

NetSmartz

• NetSmartz -- presentation in class, find out more here)
  • Download the Word file for taking notes
    • convert to a web page and upload to your hosted web site (in class activity)
  • Take the followup quiz (scored)

Social Media - what is it?

• video explanation
  • (click on language tools under video for Spanish)
  • read the transcript if needed
• Video is from commoncraft.com (this version is an attribution, non-commmercial license)

Privacy

• Classroom discussions -- follow up from NetSmartz
• Privacy - Electronic Frontier Foundations's 12 Tips to Protect Your Privacy Online
• John Stossel's Video on Privacy
• Digital Dirt Can Hurt Your Job Search (CNN)
• NPR series on Privacy (four reports -- audio and text)
  • Digital Bread Crumbs: Following Your Cell Phone Trail
  • Is Your Facebook Profile as Private As You Think It Is?
  • Online Data Present a Privacy Minefield
  • Digital Data Make For A Really Permanent Record

Cloud Computing - Web 2.0

• What is Web 2.0 (from notinwords.com)
  • used under license: Creative Common license “Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States”.
• A trip into the secret, online Cloud (CNN)
• What is Cloud Computing? (How Stuff Works)
• Video on Google Docs
  • (click on language tools under video for Spanish)
  • read the transcript if needed
• Ways that businesses are using the Cloud
• Advantages and Disadvantages for Business
• See Mrs. Sanchez's examples on Google Docs (in class demonstration)

Social Networks

• video explanation
  • (click on language tools under video for Spanish)
  • read the transcript if needed
• Video is from commoncraft.com (this version is an attribution, non-commmercial license)
• Ways that Businesses are using Social Networks
• Advantages and Disadvantages for Business

Blogs -- what are they?

• video explanation
  • (click on language tools under video for Spanish)
  • read the transcript if needed
• Video is from commoncraft.com (this version is an attribution, non-commmercial license)
• Ways that Businesses are using Blogs
• Advantages and Disadvantages for Business

Twitter -- what is it? (microblog)

• video explanation
  • (click on language tools under video for Spanish)
  • read the transcript if needed
• Video is from commoncraft.com (this version is an attribution, non-commmercial license)
• Ways that Businesses are using Twitter
• Advantages and Disadvantages for Business

Wikis - what are they?

• video explanation
  • (click on language tools under video for Spanish)
  • read the transcript if needed
• Video is from commoncraft.com (this version is an attribution, non-commmercial license)
• Ways that Businesses are using Wikis
• Advantages and Disadvantages for Business

Games to practice

• Web 2.0 and Safety