PARENT GUIDES
Please check out the links to various external parent guides for well known websites or programs. Each link to a guide is accompanied by a short description of the full site. There are many more guides available by using a simple Google search. The introduction video played at the Distribution and Orientation process is also available just below. (for the parent guides, click the title or the picture to navigate to the link)
EDMODO: A PARENTS' GUIDE
Edmodo is the learning management tool BHS has decided on for our initiative. Parent accounts on Edmodo are a great way to stay informed of your child's classroom activities, assignments, grades, and school events. Before you can create a parent account, you must recieve a parent code from your child's teacher.
PARENTS' GUIDE TO FACEBOOK (2012 edition)
Welcome to the fully updated 2012 edition of A Parents' Guide to Facebook (PDF)! It’s designed to help you understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely. With it, you will be better informed and able to communicate with young Facebook users in your life more effectively. That's important because 1) if something goes wrong, we want our children to come to us and 2) as the Internet...
Instragram
Instagram is a photo sharing mobile app that’s (currently) only available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Users can either upload a photo from their device’s library or take a photo right then and there and use Instagram to change the way the photo looks. In many ways, and without reinventing the wheel, Instagram is changing the way people share photos with each other.
Pinterest is a virtual pin-board site that allows users to create different boards of topics and pin information and images to those boards. Pinterest has really revolutionized visual bookmarking and within just few months since its launch it counted thousands and thousands of members and is still exponentially growing in popularity that it catches up with the other long standing popular platforms such as Diigo , Stumble Upon, and Digg.
YOUTUBE EDUCATION
Youtube has recently expanded its offerings to schools by creating a safe environment for students and teachers to surf its thousands upon thousands of videos. Youtube.com/education allows teachers to block students from seeing unwanted content while still being able to access the videos they need for class.
GROVO: VIDEO TRAINING & INTERNET EDUCATION
Thousands of video lessons covering Internet products you love or didn't know about.
Teach and learn from your friends. Businesses use Grovo too.
Teach and learn from your friends. Businesses use Grovo too.
KHAN ACADEMY
"Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. With over 3,200 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace."
SKYPE: MANAGING SKYPE PRIVACY SETTINGS
Skype’s privacy settings let you control who can contact you on Skype, and help you manage your conversation history and blocked contacts.
EDUCATION.COM
An education and child development site for parents.
A PARENTS' GUIDE TO TWITTER
Chances are your teen has a page on Facebook, the social-networking website with a massive following among users ages 9 to 99. And, chances are, if you've heard of Facebook, you've probably also heard of Twitter, another player in the ever-expanding fray of social networking platforms, micro-blogs and the like. Perhaps you have a Twitter account. But does your child have one too? And as a parent, should you be concerned about Twitter in the hands of your child?
PARENTS' GUIDE TO TUMBLR (FASTEST GROWING SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE)
Tumblr is giving Facebook a run for its money in the cool-with-kids stakes. Teens are using it as a form of online expression – posting images of bands, models and celebrities, pop culture references, quirky or funny images… to create a virtual scrapbook that says a lot about who they are...