Thursday, October 22, 2009

Cyber Security Month Lesson Idea

October is Cyber Security Month!

Integrate a lesson about staying safe online - identity theft, viruses, password selection, financial information, tagging photos, etc into all of your courses.

Lesson Plans/Classroom Ideas/Other Links:

Identify Theft Lesson Plan - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/economics/idtheft_8-29.html

Go to http://www.staysafeonline.info/ then click on K-12 Educators for lesson plans and teaching ideas.

Microsoft's "password checker" to test the strength of your passwords - https://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/checker.aspx?WT.mc_id=Site_Link

http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/safetysecurity/lessons/

http://www.safeinternet.org/blog/october-national-cyber-security-awareness-month

Please add any other lessons you think are useful on this topic.

Happy Teaching!
Business Education Georgia

2 comments:

  1. Netsmartz
    You can download two files about internet safety. They are in .ppt format and have some video clips in them.
    http://www.netsmartz.org/Presentations/

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  2. Here is a 2-min video.
    moral of the video:
    "YOU WOULDN'T TELL TONS OF PERSONAL DETAILS
    TO A PERFECT STRANGER ON A PARK BENCH...
    SO WHY DO YOU TELL SO MUCH ONLINE?"

    http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=a6822d76e8185f7c899d
    "Too Much Information"

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