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To gain a sense of the LEARNING CONTEXT for which these materials were initially developed, please VIEW the description of each presenter's particular session in the Conference Program PDF.

In her session “Maximizing Safe, Ethical, and Efficient Use of the ’Net in ELA,” Janet Bell helped teachers become informed and proactive about a variety of issues concering use of the Internet.

Web 2.0 Tools -- including excerpts from the presentation regarding the "new face of the 'Net" (on the Web 2.0 Overview page) as well as a collection of Web 2.0 links.

Cyberbullying 

This section includes excerpts from the presentation regarding prevalence and response, as well as links to Nancy Willard's articles (on the Cyberbullying Overview page) as well as collections of links for teacher, parent and student audiences.

PLAGIARISM

Tis section includes a very helpful Overview, an interactive student activity on Responsible Resource Use, and Printable Resources.

SEARCH and RESEARCH

This section contains Evaluating Sites which include the 'NetCheck website evaluation of capability, reliability and usefulness of technologies and how they will contribute to student learning. 

There is also a list of sites that help address the question of how we can use the Web itself to help our students evaluate online resources.

Evaluating Scholarly Content Online -- This very informative Flash tutorial challenges the user to see what distinguishes scholarly content from other online content.

Evaluating Internet Sites 101 -- a step-by-step assessment of various sites, applying evaluation criteria