I am using CyberSmart with 8th and 9th grade students. Congradulations on developing excellant materials that are free to use!
The activities presented on this site are perfect and
address 100% of what I want kids to know about safety and searching online.
We are very impressed.
We lost our funding for a computer teacher and now
are classroom teachers are responsible for teaching our technology
standards to their own students. We need to provide them some
tools to do this effectively and your program is a good fit…
In my 7 th grade literacy class, my students are
doing a research project and in order to prepare them to use
the Internet I used some of your lesson plans. I wasn’t
sure how to approach the task of teaching the students proper
search strategies and website evaluation, but your
lessons made the process very understandable. The
lessons ideas are awesome and the activity sheets are extremely
user-friendly! Thank you for making such an overwhelming topic
more manageable!
Wow! You saved me! We are now developing a tech
curriculum with benchmarks we could trace to NETS. I found
your site through thegateway.org and I am very pleased – it’s
just what we needed to get started.
I loved this site! Cybersmart helped me to guide
teachers and students to outstanding lessons and activities,
while improving our technology preformance and surpassing
NCLB requirements.
This curriculum is really teaching ME how to teach
the children to evaluate a web site, cite it correctly and… it
is making ME feel more comfortable about encouraging integration
of the Internet in the curriculum.
You will never know how helpful your
website is or how much I appreciate it! It will save me countless
hours of trying to develop some sort of curriculum for teaching
computers that will meet my school districts’ requirements. Five
Gold Stars!!!
Your material is right on target and gives the instructor
many options for creativity.
At our school every child, grade 1-4 has their own
Apple I-book computer. I have been using your curriculum with
my first graders... their parents are very pleased!
I have been struggling to teach these concepts effectively
and your curriculum has helped greatly.
I can’t believe your curriculum is free!
And free of adds, which is wonderful in a school setting.
I can't believe that this WONDERFUL resource is free. It
is so well put together. I love how it allows it moves into
their home life (by asking them to talk to their parents),
brings up morality issues (reminding them of rules in life
and comparing them to the way we should behave online), and
shows them what a serious responsibility being on the internet
truly is.
I am a media specialist and have been doing more
and more with technology in my elementary library classes.
Your curriculum is a great way to establish a standard by
which students can use technology effectively.
Without your materials I would never have know what
words to speak to discuss the ethical, safety and legal issues
of Internet use for elementary school age children. Thank
you! We have no learning objectives about these issues in
our district – just a legal sound Acceptable Use Policy
(AUP) so you curriculum is now a portion of our district’s
technology scope and sequence.
AWESOME Site! I love it.
Great web site – I plan to share it with fellow
media specialists.
I am responsible for teaching 5 th grade technology
skills and your curriculum is just the help I needed.
I am using this in elementary library classes which
I teach all day. I used some of the lessons when I was being
evaluated with my principal and she really liked the activities!
My congratulations to your development team. These
are some of the best lessons I have seen on the subject. And
I have seen a ton!
Wonderful product! I will spread the word!
Your website is great. I’ve been using it
for 3 rd-5 th grade and my students love it!
Thank you for these wonderful activities! You made
my day when I found all these free resources!
The web site looks terrific. The organization and
objectives are excellent.
We are incorporating your course into our curriculum…
This is a fantastic curriculum. We are writing it
into our district technology plan!
I would like to implement this curriculum at all
grade levels.
This is such an important area for children to learn
as second nature. I am going to use the material for both
our students and staff.
Our classroom teachers are now responsible for
teaching our district technology standards to their own students.
I would like to provide them some tools to do this effectively.
Your program is a good fit for our needs.
This is a great Product! Awesome. Thanks for developing
it. I'm excited to share it with my Tech Curriculum Team & other
teachers.
An excellent resource that I have added to my favorites site! Your site provides excellent topics for classroom discussions with and without computers!
I am very excited about your curriculum and plan
to use it in our school.
This is such an important area for children to learn,
it should be almost as second nature [to them]
I am very excited about implementing your program
at my school! I am considering offering it as a summer school
option for interested students.
This will be a wonderful addition to our curriculum.
I love this site and want to use several lessons.
Thanks for the wonderful lesson plans!
I love this curriculum because it empowers my students
and it can be used as part of other curriculum areas. Thanks
for providing this wonderful curriculum!
I love your site. I have used many of the ideas
offered and promoted it to the other media specialists in
my district. Thanks so much!
I am thrilled to have found your site. Before I
found your site I was unsure how to tackle the Internet issued
with the young ones, but the plans and worksheets are very
informative. Thanks!
Thank you for this wonderful resource! I would highly
recommend it for all subject areas.
I will definitely be using the lesson plans and
activity sheets. I can't thank you enough. I have been making
up my own lessons, but yours are more complete and more professional
looking.
I am enjoying the fine lessons you have created.
Wow! What a fantastic resource.
I look forward to using these with my students. This site
will help me to better communicate how to be a responsible
computer user.
I was thrilled to find your site. It is going to
make my job so much easier. Thank you!!!
The materials are age appropriate and the lessons
are easy to follow.
We are currently developing a resource package for
our principals regarding cyber bullying, and came across your
amazing and extremely helpful web site.
My first graders are learning so much with your
program. The parents are very pleased with their abilities
and with their knowledge of the Internet. Thank you so much.
We are printing your posters on iron-ons and making
t-shirts for our class to wear during our cyber safety unit!
Your beautifully designed site has excellent materials
which will be very useful in implementing our technology curriculum.
Your site has been an excellent resource for developing
a technology program in its infancy stages. Thank you!
This is so awesome! I’ve been looking for
help teaching computer ethics to my 7 th and 8 th grade technology
students. Thank you for such a great resource!
I am so excited! I am thrilled with your depth,
continuity and age appropriateness… our students will
be required to complete your curriculum before being allowed
to link to the Internet…
I was very impressed with the quality and quantity
of materials presented.
I was specifically looking for information regarding
copyright laws when using the Internet and I found your lessons.
Thankyou!
I am putting together a computer camp for girls.
I discovered your curriculum and I think it is top notch and
can’t wait to see how the girls like it.
I am interested in using the Cyber Smart Curriculum
with my library classes.
This looks like a fantastic curriculum! We’re
writing it into our district technology plan and I’ll
share it with our local CTAP (California Technology Assistance
Project)
I am developing web resources for teachers on ethical
use of the Internet. We are going to link to your wonderful
site!
I can’t thank you enough for the your lessons,
particularly on research and the MLA format for citing sites.
I was making my own lessons but yours are, frankly, more complete
and more professional looking
Right at this moment 4,000 teen peace leaders and
their communities from Argentina, Brasil, Columbia, Ecuador,
and Chile are spreading a Media Awareness campaign in the
region and integrating your CyberSmart! Curriculum!
Thank you for citing ISTE standards!
I love it and do not think it could
be any better!
Keep up the good work!
I am very pleased with Cybersmart and often can’t
decide on which activity is the most pleasant and fun for
my special education students