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Overview. September, 2006. imbee Teachers. explore. create. GROW. What is imbee.com?. imbee.com is a dynamic new blogging and social networking destination designed specifically for children from ages 8 to 14. Kid safe alternative to Myspace TM , Xanga TM , Bebo TM , and Friendster TM .

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  1. Overview September, 2006

  2. imbee Teachers explore create GROW

  3. What is imbee.com? • imbee.com is a dynamic new blogging and social networking destination designed specifically for children from ages 8 to 14. • Kid safe alternative to MyspaceTM, XangaTM, BeboTM, and FriendsterTM. • Free to join and simple to use.

  4. What is social networking? • Social networking is using a web site to connect with people who share similar interests, particularly where the people on the site are connected to each other as friends and friends of friends.

  5. Why social networking for kids? • Kids are online now at younger ages everyday. • Kids are always looking for more ways to stay connected with friends and family. (i.e. instant messanger, text messages, email, and now social blogging networks). • Kids have more access to internet at different locations such as home, school, friends house, library, youth centers and many more. To keep kids safe they need to have a safe place to go on the internet.

  6. What is blogging? • Web entries that consist of frequently updated, chronological entries on various topics. "Online Diary"

  7. What are imbee albums? • Imbee albums are a place to post pictures to share with your friends online.

  8. Why imbee for kids? • Safe place to be on the internet • All your friends on imbee are friends that you know prior to getting on imbee. • Not published to the outside internet community. • Fun and exciting to use. A way to be more like their older friends and family members but still being in a kids environment.

  9. Why imbee for teachers? • Good place to interact with students outside the classroom. • A way to teach kids about safety online. • Another communication method for kids and teachers (breaks down barriers for those shy kids). • Teachers are coming to us! • Benefits- gives you another avenue into kids lives.

  10. Get your class online… • Three simple steps to get your class online • Create your own imbee teacher account • Imbee.com will send you a complete teacher pack to get your entire class started • Create your students’ accounts • With permission slips and take-home materials in the teacher pack, the interaction with the parents is done for you. You and the parents work together to quickly create the student accounts • Start interacting online with your students • With lesson plans provided to you and the natural curiosity of kids, you will be interacting with your students and creating fun and exciting content in no time

  11. Create your free, customized teacher pack

  12. Create Student Accounts

  13. Teacher Dashboard

  14. Preparation Step-by-step Lesson Plans Detailed steps Assessment and follow-up

  15. Your entire class online

  16. Engage your class • Engage and educate your class with • Group and individual lesson plans • Assignments online • Off-hours interaction with your students • Creative ideas • Examples of using imbee with your class • Homework assignments • Cool sites of the week • Daily thoughts/journals • Interact with students outside of the classroom • Student to student interaction • Students can ask teachers and fellow students questions

  17. Homework Assignments

  18. Class site of the week

  19. Student daily journal

  20. Interact outside the classroom • Messaging system provides tools to interact with students, teachers, and parents outside the classroom

  21. Creative writing • The internet is becoming a canvas for students and people in general to express themselves. Imbee.com provides the tools students need to publish their ideas in a fun, educational, manner. • Poems, Daily Morning Journals, Short Stories, Summaries of News Articles

  22. When parents want to be involved

  23. Industrious Kid: The Company • Industrious Kid • Internet Destinations • Kids 8 to 14 • Fun, dynamic sites • Parental insight Industrious Kid builds a family of Internet destinations for children between the ages of 8 and 14. The sites are designed to offer children a fun and dynamic, independent user experience. These same sites offer parents easy-to-use access to the necessary insight and controls related to the communications and content development activities of their children.

  24. Contact Us • Corporate web site www.industriouskid.com • Tools and information for teachers: www.imbee.com/teacher • Phone support for teachers and schools: 1-510-984-1000 • Email support for teachers and schools: imbeeteacher@imbee.com

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