ADVISORY/`Promoting Online Safety: The Home-School Partnership' Resources to be Unveiled by CoSN on Feb. 4.News Editors/Assignment Desks & Education/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Feb. 4) --(BUSINESS WIRE) The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. that promotes the use of information technologies and the Internet in K-12 education to improve learning, will release new resources to help guide school officials when they talk to parents and other community members about online safety issues.
What: Press conference unveiling the "Promoting Online Safety" toolkit
Host: CoSN, the pre-eminent national voice on the use of the Internet
and information technologies to improve learning at elementary
and secondary schools (http://www.cosn.org)
Sponsors: The "Promoting Online Safety" toolkit was made possible
through the generous contributions of the BellSouth
Foundation (http://www.bellsouthfoundation.org), the AOL
Time Warner Foundation (http://aoltimewarnerfoundation.org),
Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) (http://www.microsoft.com/education)
and Sprint (NYSE:FON) (NYSE:PCS) (http://www.sprint.com)
When: Tuesday, Feb. 4, from 4 to 5 p.m. Eastern
Location: Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) Press Room,
Room 205-C, Orange County Convention Center
Webcast: Visit http://www.safewiredschools.org/toolkit for more
information and to register for the webcast.
Why Focus on Internet Safety? -- Between 1997 and 2001, the percentage of U.S. public school classrooms connected to the Internet grew from 27 percent to 87 percent. As more students access the Internet from school, educators are being asked to play a larger role in assuring that children have a positive experience when they go online and that they are using appropriate online learning resources. Passage of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) imposed new requirements on schools that accepted certain kinds of federal education technology money. CIPA required schools to solicit public input on an Internet safety policy. -- Schools need to continue to be proactive in communicating with parents and other community members about their online safety strategies. Parents need to understand the steps they can take to help ensure that their children use their home computer in a safe and appropriate manner. -- The toolkit is a collection of resources to help guide school officials when they talk to parents and other community members about protecting children, both at home and at school. Additional resources are available on the Web site of CoSN's "Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse" project (http://www.safewiredschools. org). Speakers -- Keith Krueger, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , CoSN -- Sara Fitzgerald, "Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse" Project Director -- Herb Lin, Senior Scientist, Computer Science and Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. Board, National Research Council, and Study Director on children's online safety -- John Bailey John Bailey may refer to one of the following people:
Department of Education -- Bob Moore For the football player of the same name see Bob Moore (American football). Bob Loyce Moore (born November 30, 1932 in Nashville, Tennessee), is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and legendary bassist. , Executive Director, Information Technology Services, Blue Valley USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 229, Overland Park Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing, and the manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories, and signs. , Kan. -- Terry Crane, Executive Vice President of Education, Families & Workplace Products, America Online See AOL. -- Mark Cosby, Public Sector Group Manager, Sprint Business Wholesale Markets -- Janet Craft, Vice President and General Manager, South Profit Center, BellSouth Business -- Anthony Salcito, Regional Director, Education Solutions Group, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, Toolkit Materials and Availability The toolkit components have been designed so that they can be used either individually or together to help school leaders make a presentation to parents or other community members. The components include: -- A handbook, "Promoting Online Safety: The Home-School home·school or home-school v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools v.tr. To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home. Partnership," designed to help school leaders develop the message they want to convey to parents and community members, based on their local circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or . -- A short, 10-minute video that highlights the experiences of two school districts, one in Pennsylvania and one in Kansas, as they worked through questions surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. the best ways to protect students when they go online. -- A presentation designed to help school leaders explain to parents and community leaders the steps their schools are taking to help protect children online. Some of the content is provided, but in the notes to other slides, suggestions are made to help educators "tell their own story." -- A flyer designed to help school leaders announce an event related to online safety. It includes online safety tips for parents that can be sent home with other school communications. -- Visit http://www.safewiredschools.org/toolkit to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. most toolkit components for free or to order a full toolkit. |
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