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Time 4 Us – “E-Safety”. Mr Laing (Head of ICT) Ms Livock (Assistant Head) PC Siobhan Fairclough. Text speech answers…. BTW By the way BB4N Bye bye for now GR8 2 C U Great to see you LOL Laughing out loud TXT SPK 4 U2? Text speak for you too? WBU What about you?
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Time 4 Us – “E-Safety” Mr Laing (Head of ICT) Ms Livock (Assistant Head) PC Siobhan Fairclough
Text speech answers… • BTW By the way • BB4N Bye bye for now • GR8 2 C U Great to see you • LOL Laughing out loud • TXT SPK 4 U2? Text speak for you too? • WBU What about you? • TT4T Talk to you tomorrow
Objectives • To understand what social networking is and how to be safe. • To understand the various forms of cyber bullying and what can be done to combat it. • To gain practical tips for how to support your daughter.
ICT your daughter will use at QE • Every student receives an hour of ICT per week. Throughout their schooling your daughter will: • Learn how to effectively use Office programs (eg Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher etc) • Use the Internet for research, communication (eg email, messaging, discussions etc) • Website creation and multimedia (eg videos, animations, sounds etc)
What is e-safety? • A very broad term covering a variety of aspects of the use of ICT: Chat rooms Browsing the Internet Cyber bullying Health & safety Viruses Use of mobile phones eg texting, camera/MMS, calling etc Personal safety
E-safety at QEGS • Taught at the start of each year from Y7-11 in ICT lessons. • Project lasting a ½ term in Y7 and Y8 during ICT lessons – esafety bookmark and esafety podcast. • Covered in PSHCE and through tutor time. • Various events throughout the year (eg Safer Internet day in February)
Student Acceptable Use Policy • Details how we expect students to use ICT responsibly and safely, outlining some of the potential risks and measures of protection. • Signed by all students and staff in the school and reviewed annually.
Social Networking • A social network is any online space where people can communicate with others. • Eg Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Formspring, Twitter etc
How does Social Networking Work? • Usually free to create an account • Variety of methods of interaction: • Posting messages to an online virtual message board • Email • Live chat • Web conferencing (using web cams) • Instant messaging individuals • Post images/videos/sound clips • Users usually have to add ‘friends’ before they can communicate with them.
Activity • The piece of paper shows a mock version of a Facebook ‘profile’ page. This is highly similar to what your daughter will have if she uses Facebook. • Circle any areas of risk where the Facebook user has potentially made themselves vulnerable.
Social Networking – Pros & Cons • Great for communicating over geographical distances • Can express yourself using a variety of mediums (eg text, video, sound etc) • Can reach a large number of people very quickly • Need to actively amend privacy settings and security or else information can be public • Hard to know who someone actually is in real life • Easy to divulge too much information
Privacy Settings/Report • Almost all social networks have privacy settings where a user can control who can see which parts of their profile. Some sites (eg Facebook) let you do this for images as well. • We encourage all students to have a private profile and to avoid adding personal images. They should also be careful about who they add as a ‘friend’ • A ‘report abuse’ button is available:
Cyber Bullying • “Using the Internet or mobile technologies to bully others.” • Childnet International • As many as 1 in 3 children may have been victims of cyber bullying. • Can sometimes be more worrying as children can be reached almost 24/7 and so there is a chance the bullying could be more persistent.
Forms of cyber bullying • Receiving nasty or threatening... • Text messages on a mobile phone • Instant messages • Chatroom messages • Emails • Someone posting embarrassing images, videos or messages on a social networking site.
Cyber Bullying Video • http://www.digizen.org/resources/cyberbullying/films/uk/lfit-film.aspx
Tackling Cyber Bullying • QEGS approach • Police approach
What to do... • Always capture evidence either by printing messages out or saving phone messages – never delete them, however unpleasant. • Make use of the ‘report abuse’ facility and encourage your daughter to speak to an adult.
How to support your daughter • Try to have your daughter use a computer in a more public area of the house. • Review privacy settings and site memberships with your daughter. Look at how they are using social networking. • Investigate privacy settings and the features of social networking sites your daughter uses.
Questions/Answers • Any questions for us?