6.5 April is CyberAwareness Month - October is CyberSecurity Awareness Month
There are a numerous Cybersafety, ethics, and security curricula available for students, parents and teachers.
Visit ETPRO's Cyberawareness and Cyber Security Awareness Month site at http://www.edtechpolicy.org/C3Institute/c3awareness.html NCSA and Congress were deciding on wording and logistics. It seems that April will be “Cyberawareness Month” and October will be "CyberSecurity Awareness month”). Read through the history and background of Cyberawareness month and then explore the interactive calendar (October was Cybersecurity month thus the theme throughout the month).
Past activities can be found at: http://www.edtechpolicy.org/C3Institute/c3awareness.html (scroll down to the interactive calendar). Notice the calendars of events were created by a past class. Clicking on each of the days reveals a new area, topic and/or activity. We as a class will complete the new 2008 calendar for October (credit given of course). This will be distributed to MSDE and DCPS to share with local school systems and teachers and students. It will also be placed on the NCSA’s website for national coverage. EACH person will come up with 1 activity. As seen from the earlier calendars the activities need not be long. Be sure to include the full URL's linking to the location. Once complete, we will compile and try it out before posting it for public viewing. (I’ll fill in the remaining dates). Topics should include ALL areas of Cyberawaremess-Cybersecurity that you have learned about so far, utilizing the sites from reading or others you know about. Topics can also include: Cyberethics, Netiquette, fair use, plagiarism etc. along with security and safety issues. If possible try to dialogue within the thread (if Blackboard is active) or among yourselves to divide up the topics (or at least note what others have listed or sites that others have listed so we do not receive duplicates). If this is not possible do not worry about. Be creative - Do not use activities shown in the previous October/April calendars--although you certainly can utilize the same sites and/or same topic/themes. |
