Hi Lynne,

Thank you for the list of web sites.  I just came accross the Garfield site and downloaded the information.  I teach K - 6th grade students computers.  For the few next weeks I will have to be on a cart going into the classrooms.  I will only have one computer to demonstrate and to teach from.  I need to teach being safe on the Internet and using good manners while on the Internet.  I will have to look at your suggestions to see how I can use them with my students.

Thank you for the information!

Jinny Hoden from NJ

Fascinating, isn't it.  Everyone, K through 12, enjoys Garfield and can learn from these lessons and discuss topics of cyber responsibility!  Good to see you are teaching these topics to the youngest of our students.  This is their future.

Hi Carol - Thanks for the link to Nsteens.  I particularly like that the videos are not all animated.   I also found the student comments about each video interesting.   Clearly these videos are having an impact on the kids watching them.

The other thing I found interesting about the student comments is that they are often written in chat speak.  While the students are most likely sitting at a full qwerty keyboard with plenty of characters at their disposal, they still used text shorthand and abbreviations to express their reactions to the videos.   I worry about this trend.

Fascinating stuff.

T.