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 Use Safe Surfing to Complement your School Supplies

If your classroom has access to the Internet, it's an excellent way to enhance your current list of school supplies. In fact, having access to the world wide web is like having access to a vast array of free teacher supplies and free stuff for teachers. Finding web sites that that are safe to use in your classroom as well as ones that compliment your current school supplies can be a tricky process. 

If you do have Internet access in the classroom, one of the most important thing you can you is implement a number of strategies that provide a safe surfing environment for students while complementing your current list of school supplies. Start with a safe surfing program, such s Net Nanny or Surf Monkey. Although these programs don't guarantee a safe surfing environment for students, they do help filter out web sites that contain objectionable material through key words. Unfortunately, these programs aren't 100 per cent effective, so it's important to observe students while using these programs. Even so, adding such a program to you class' computer is a good addition to your list of important teacher supplies.

A great strategy when using the Internet as part of your teacher supplies is to do research on a specific topic before asking your students to research the topic themselves using technology in the classroom. You will be able to find a number of web sites that contain solid information that your students can use. Simply save the site on your hard drive and place it in a folder with that topic's name. When your students start their research, simply open the topic folder. It will give the appearance of surfing without the worry of accessing inappropriate material. When the project is complete, delete or save to a disk in order to make room for additional online school supplies.