Google for Educators
The Google for Educators website is a good place to visit if you are looking for tools, posters, and activities that relate to web searching or Google applications. (It would be especially useful for teachers at schools that have Google Apps for Education.) The site also has information on the Google Teacher Academy and hosts a teacher community page for teacher discussions.
Given the information and media literacy focus of our readings this week, there was one page within this site that I found particularly relevant and that was the Digital Literacy Tour page. Basically, this page provides a short curriculum for teachers to use when teaching digital literacy. This mini curriculum contains three workshops: Detecting Lies & Staying True, Playing and Staying Safe Online, Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks. Within each workshop, Google supplies a short animated video on the topic, an instructor's guidebook, a variety of student handouts, and a presentation to accompany the lesson. One nice aspect of these lessons is that they list which standards they address using the ALA Information Power Standards, the C3 Digital Literacy Skills, and the NETS. I also liked that the videos were short, simple, and entertaining. I would definitely recommend this site to anyone (especially those teaching elementary or middle school students) looking for ideas on how to teach a lesson on cybersafety or website evaluation.
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