Useful Links



ConnectSafely
ConnectSafely is for parents, teens, educators, advocates - everyone engaged in and interested in the impact of the social Web. The user-driven, all-media, multi-platform, fixed and mobile social Web is a big part of young people's lives, and this is the central space – linked to from social networks across the Web - for learning about safe, civil use of Web 2.0 together. Our forum is also designed to give teens and parents a voice in the public discussion about youth online safety begun back in the '90s. ConnectSafely also has all kinds of social-media safety tips for teens and parents, the latest youth-tech news, and many other resources.
Education World - The Educator's Best Friend
Facebook for Parents
Parents need to understand Facebook. At Facebook for Parents, parents can enroll in a free course at Stanford to learn more about Facebook or sign up for a free newsletter about Facebook created especially for parents with kids under 18 using the service.
Reading and Word-Attack Strategies
From ReadingA-Z.com - The Online Reading Program
Reading Strategies
Scaffolding Students' Interactions with Texts
Sharon Duke Estroff- Internationally-Syndicated Parenting Columnist and Author
Practical, Real-Life Parenting Advice (on Everything from School and Social Concerns to Cell Phone and Internet Worries) From an Award-Winning Educator, Journalist, and Mother of Four
Themes and Essential Questions
Framing Inquiry and Promoting Critical Thinking
Top 8 workarounds of kid virtual-world users
It stands to reason that bullying happens in kids' virtual worlds (e.g., Club Penguin, Webkinz, Neopets, Nicktropolis, etc.), because, well, it happens in school, instant messaging, and social-networking sites. But I hadn't learned how it happened until Sharon Duke Estroff called me about it. The Atlanta-based parenting columnist, former elementary school teacher, kids' pop culture expert, author, and mother of four spent a couple of weeks in Club Penguin to learn what her eight-year-old son might experience there. She didn't like everything she saw.