Protecting Your Professional Identity

1. Protecting Your Professional Identity Please note some slides contain language of an inappropriate nature L Searle Senior ICT Adviser e-Learning and Information Management Service (ref K Corish SWGFL, B Harding Wiltshire)

2. Useful links • South West Grid for Learning; exemplar policies etc • www.swgfl.org.uk/staying-safe • Kent Trust – e safety; Safeguarding • www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kcn/e-safety_home.cfm • 360 degree safe; school esafety self review tool • www.360safe.org.uk

3. Issues • Rights and responsibilities • Staff using technology in school • Staff using technology socially • Cyberbullying and supporting school staff e-safety Live ‘09

4. What The Papers Say

5. What The Papers Say

6. What The Papers Say

7. What The Papers Say

8. What The Papers Say

9. Can I respond to a comment about the school on Facebook? How should I respond if I am subjected to cyber bullying by pupils? Can I use a school computer to book holidays etc during lunch time or after school? Can I use my mobile to take photos or videos on school trips? Can school limit my private online publishing? Should I text a pupil in the evening to remind and encourage him to complete a project? Can I use Bebo to discuss a topic with my students? Should I continue to use my social network site?

10. Responsibilities DCSF Guidance for Safer Working Practice for Adults Who Work with Children and Young People Section 12 Communication with Children and Young People (including the Use of Technology) Adults should not share any personal information with a child or young person. They should not request, or respond to, any personal information from the child/young person, other than that which might be appropriate as part of their professional role. Communication between children and adults, by whatever method, should take place within clear and explicit professional boundaries. This includes the wider use of technology such as mobile phones text messaging, e-mails, digital cameras, videos, web-cams, websites and blogs. Adults should ensure that all communications are transparent and open to scrutiny.

11. Responsibilities General Teaching Council for England Code of Conduct Paragraph 8: Bringing the profession into serious disrepute Conduct in this category would include behaviour which was seriously detrimental to the standing of the profession but where no criminal offence was committed. “not attempt to establish an inappropriate relationship with a pupil by means which might include sending e-mails or text messages to pupils of an inappropriate or personal nature.” “exercise extreme caution in connection with contact/web cam internet sites (for example chat rooms, message boards, social networking sites and newsgroups) and avoid inappropriate communication with individuals under 18 or with whom you may be in a position of trust.”

12. Physical Safety Freedom from physical harm Freedom from cruelty, harassment and exposure to potentially harmful material Psychological Safety Freedom from unwanted social, academic, professional and legal consequences that might affect you for a lifetime Reputational and legal safety Identity, property and community safety Freedom from theft of identity and property and attacks against networks and online communities at local, national and international level

13. Staff use of technology in school

18. Staff use of technology socially

19. Reduce vunerability • Learn how to set privacy settings eg Facebook • Do you have a legacy? • Limit social networking search results • Google your own name or use Spezify, 123 people • Limit SN site Google searches Manage visibility Caution in the subjects you discuss • Compromise your professional identity • Inappropriate site membership • Discussing pupils, parents or • colleagues on publicly available sites Let your colleagues know your expectations • Tagging staff outings • Avoid embarrassing wall posts and let colleagues know you will not respond • Email funnies on official email

20. Ref: Microsoft Data Privacy Day Online reputation research

23. Safer Working Practice Don’t forget data protection ………. Becta advice

24. Cyberbullying

29. 360 degree safe study/SWGfL advice

30. Facebook Places

31. E-Safety Live

32. Make a note of the social networking website address and print off or take a screen shot of the page(s) as evidence. Report the incident to a senior manager (e.g. head teacher) and the e-safety co-ordinator at your school - they should conduct a prompt investigation. It is recommended that you make the report in writing and copy in your trade union representative. If the investigation finds that a student (or a group of students) is involved in the incident, they should be disciplined in line with the school's disciplinary procedures in areas such as anti-bullying and acceptable use of ICT equipment. School guidelines should be followed in terms of informing the student's parents. If the investigation determines who set up the social networking page in the first place, the student(s) in question should be asked to remove or amend the content in question. If the student(s) refuses to remove or amend the content, the senior manager (or you) should contact the social networking provider (eg Bebo, Facebook or MySpace) to ask them to investigate whether the site's terms of service have been violated and to take the appropriate action. The social networking provider might be able to delete the content if it is deemed to violate a person's rights or threaten their safety, for example.

33. Contact details E Learning and Information Management Service LSearle@somerset.gov.uk Tel: 01823 356839 Secondary/Middle: Primary/Special: Ian Gover Julia Briggs Gavin Richards Amy Blackmore Harry Hughes

34. Tanya Byron E-Safety Live ’09 Key Note

35. School self evaluation report • Safer use of technologies • Safeguarding – Every Child Matters

36. School self evaluation

37. Policies • Curricweb exemplar policies