Category: ethics
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Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents (Narrated Slideshow)
(This is cross-posted from RedeemingTheFamily.org. For the past couple years I’ve been a volunteer with Redeeming the Family, an Oklahoma 501c3 nonprofit, which sends teams of volunteers into Oklahoma prisons to help parents who are inmates record DVD messages for their children: reading books to them and sharing messages of love. I strongly encourage you…
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Help My Son’s Debate Teacher Whose Home Was Destroyed by the Moore Tornado
Londa Mandron, my 9th grade son’s debate teacher at Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City, lost her entire home in the devastating tornado which hit Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday, May 20, 2013. Several people have contacted me about things they can do, or their class at school can do, to help in the…
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Donate via SMS Now to Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims
Whenever tragedy strikes these days, it’s important to be savvy and careful because scams abound. We saw this happen when the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010. Scammers setup websites and text messaging “offers” which ripped off people instead of helping victims. Whenever you see an offer along the lines, “text to this number to send…
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Developing Communication Skills With YouTube & iPad Videos
Ginger Gregory is the Gifted Resource Teacher at Lakeview Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, and currently has 117 videos on her classroom YouTube channel. Ginger has used the six iPads in her classroom and her free, district-provided YouTube channel (since the Yukon school district participates in the Google Apps for Education program) to help her…
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Lessons on Suicide Prevention from Rich Van Pelt
This evening the four eldest members of our family attended a presentation about suicide prevention by Rich Van Pelt, a church youth leader from Colorado who has authored several books on helping teens in crisis. I’m not sure how many people were present in the sanctuary at Crossings Community Church in north Oklahoma City, but…
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Digital Citizenship: Learning to Cross the Street in a Digital World
These are my notes from Jennifer Cutler’s presentation for the OU K-20 Center provided PD workshop, “Digital Citizenship: Learning to Cross the Street in a Digital World” at Ranchwood Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, on April 3, 2013. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We don’t share this with you at the start…
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A Story about Web Accountability and Club Penguin
Today I learned that over a year ago, one of our children was “banned” from the Club Penguin website for 24 hours for using profanity. I learned about this when I was checking out the “Ban History” on my Club Penguin “Parent Tools” page. Obviously that isn’t a “web history” page I visit very often.…
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A Story About Plagiarsim and Group Projects
(This is an edited, shorter version of the post, “Use Google to Identify Plagiarism & Teach How to Avoid Committing It“)* The past couple weeks my 7th grade daughter has been working on a National History Day project for her social studies class. Today she proudly showed me the display board which her group created…
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Use Google to Identify Plagiarism & Teach How to Avoid Committing It
(A shortened, edited version of this post is also available as, “A Story About Plagiarsim and Group Projects.”) The past couple weeks my 7th grade daughter has been working on a National History Day project for her social studies class. Today she proudly showed me the display board which her group created about our president.…