Web+Literacy+and+Internet+Safety

**Internet Safety and Informational Literacy**
February 20, 2009 8:30 – 3:00 Ozone Park o Welcome: Sign-in, Hand-Out distribution, Introductions (facilitators & participants)
 * Session 1 – Introduction to Cyber-Safety – The iSafe Program 8:30 -8:45**

o Review of Focusing Questions o Partner Interviews: Participants will work in pairs and ask each other interview o questions o (Hand-Out #1). Opposite partner will then share information learned about the other partner. o The Internet Landscape: Current Statistics
 * Session 2 – Building a Cyber-Community 8:45 – 9:15**

o Review of Focusing Questions o Activity #1 – Examining statistics on Personal Safety online. o Activity #2 - Sample Chat Dramatization (Hand-Out #2) o Activity #3 – Video #2: “Soccer Girl” o Activity #4 – Video #3 “Pornography”
 * Session 3: Personal Safety & Inappropriate Websites 9:15 – 10:00**

o Review of Focusing Questions o Activity #1 – Examining student statistics. Recognizing predator’s characteristics. • Exploring how predators find their targets. o Activity #2 - Video – “Student and Principal” & discussion o Activity #3 – Video – “Student Bullying” & discussion o Activity #4 – Video – “Stalking” & discussion o Share & Comments to the blog
 * Session 4: Cyber - Predators, Cyber - Bullying & Cyber - Stalking 10:00 – 12:00**


 * LUNCH 12-1**

o Activity – Participants will take the Information Literacy Quiz and respond to the blog
 * Session 5: Information Literacy 1:00-1:15**

o Reading the URL – Domains and domain extensions o Review focusing questions o Activity #1 - Participants will compare search results using different country codes o Activity #2 - Participants will compare search results using different domain extensions o Activity #3 – Participants will deconstruct a URL to discern a personal page o Examining the Content o Review focusing questions o Activity – Participants will evaluate content of three sites. o Ask About the Author and Owner o Review of focusing questions o Activity #1- Participants will conduct Google search on Martin Luther King and locate www.martinlutherking.org in results o Activity #2 – Participants will use The Wayback Machine to learn origin of site o Activity #3 – Participants will use www.easywhois.com to find owner of site o Look at Links – Forward Links and Back Links o Review of focusing questions o Activity #1 – Participants will examine forward links on http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ o Activity #2 – Participants will generate a list of back links from www.dhmo.org using Google. o Activity #3 – Participants will work in groups to examine assigned website, applying R.E.A.L. validating process with each group responding to the following questions (with discussion scribed to the blog)
 * Session 6: Get R.E.A.L. – Validating Information on the Internet 1:15 - 2:30**
 * **How can you apply R.E.A.L. techniques to vet out this site?**
 * **How do you think the web site design contributes to each site's appearance of legitimacy?**
 * **Based on your experience with this site, what problems do you think your students might have conducting Internet research?**

INFORMATION LITERACY RESOURCES