PARENT ORGANIZATIONS

Parent organizations at Lake Braddock include both parent booster organizations and parent education resources.

PARENT EDUCATION RESOURCES

Helping Children Learn - a newsletter published September to May

FCPS Parent Resource Center -includes tutor lists, workshop schedules, summer camps and Parent Resource newsletters.

FCPS Center for Promoting Family Learning and Involvement - includes services and resources to "support and involve families in the development and education of their children."

Career Parent Magazine includes articles and activities to "help your kids develop skills and knowledge about themselves, career alternatives, career and life planning, personal management and contributing to their community."

THE PARENT INSTITUTE

School Success Web Content Service Sites:

WEB SITES FOR INTERNET SAFETY AND COMPUTER ETHICS ISSUES

• NEW! VDOE Guidelines and Resources for Internet Safety in the schools -

  http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Technology/OET/internet-safety-guidelines.shtml

• Child Safety on the Internet
• The Parent's Guide to the Information Highway

  http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/mac/parentguide98.html

• FBI's A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety

  http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm

• GetNetWise

  http://getnetwise.org/

• Yahooligans Safe Surfing Guidelines

  http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/safety

• Rules for Online Safety

  http://www.safekids.com

• Computer Security Basics

• A guide for FCPS teachers, parents and students http://www.fcps.edu./DIT/pub/CompSecurMar02.pdf

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• Evaluating Internet Sites

• CARS...credibility, accuracy, reasonableness and support.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources

• A list of resources for evaluating web sites

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

• Websites for Kids

http://kids.getnetwise.org/kidsites/


• Using Internet Search Engines
  • "Safe" search engines for kids

  http://searchenginewatch.com/links/kids.html

  • Steps for better searching
    
    http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/sevensteps.html

 

• Computer Ethics
  • Copyright and fair use issues

http://www.fcps.edu/Directives/R1425.pdf

http://fcpsnet.fcps.edu/is/copyright/index.htm

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280.shtml

• Plagarism

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072818905/student_view0/avoiding_plagarism.html#

websources used for plagarism and websources used for fighting plagarism
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html

• Acceptable Use Policy

Fairfax County Public School policy
http://www.fcps.edu/DIT/forms/it121.pdf