Information explorer

Presents the tools needed to find, organize, and share information in an oral presentation, from understanding the assignment and researching the topic, to deciding how to convey the information and what visual aids to use.

Teaches how to create digital brochures.

Discusses cyberbullying, why kids do it, and how to prevent it.

Describes strategies for searching the World Wide Web, explaining how to narrow a search, discussing the use of keywords, subscription databases, and subject directories, and including exercises, checklists, and illustrations.

A discussion of Web site evaluation, explaining how students can determine whether the information they are finding on a Web site is accurate and if it is going to be right for their research needs. Includes exercises, checklists, and illustrations.

A discussion of digital cinematography and Internet videos that discusses how movies are planned, shot, edited, and shared.

Presents tools children can use to effectively formulate and organize questions while doing research projects, and includes activities that offer students opportunities to become familiar with various types of questions to ask for each kind of situation.

Proper manners are as important online as they are offline. Combining text, images, drawings with hands on activities, this book helps students learn proper online etiquette and safety.

A discussion of podcasting that defines what it is and describes how podcasts are planned, recorded, edited, revised, exported, and published.