With Nokia’s “Tell my story” thing going on in the house, that means that the boys will be having access to the internet on those phones and we decided that in conjunction with that they would need to earn their CyberChip awards. The requirements for each boy are different since they are both in different grades (found here), but in general they cover internet safety. What to do if you come across something that is bad. What information is safe to give and what isn’t, and other things like that.
Jeremy had to watch a video on “Netiquette” and Ethan had to watch a different video on passwords. Jeremy also had to play a game on the CyberChip website and answer some questions to earn a certificate. Ethan had to teach a lesson using one of their teachable recipe options.
Ethan chose the lesson about people on the internet. The object in this lesson was to teach that people may seem like good people, but they may really be someone bad. So to go along with this lesson Ethan had to make cookies. The lesson said to make two batches and switch the sugar for salt in one batch, but I REALLY didn’t want to waste that many cookies. So we made one batch, and after he made most of the cookies and we were down to the last bit of dough, I just had him add lots of salt to it. That did the trick. Then we had Ethan present his lesson to the other kids.
We lined all the kids up on the couch so I could get pictures of them eating their salty cookies (nobody but Ethan knew there was anything faulty with the cookies). Tyra is the ONLY one that made a face when she realized it was salty.
We didn’t make anyone finish their cookies. They were allowed to throw the salty ones away. Then we passed out the yummy cookies while Ethan finished teaching his lesson. 😉