Online+Personal+Safety

Online Personal Safety Module:
 * Cyber Bullying
 * Caution and reserve are necessary with all online communication (e-mail, IM, blogging, social networking, creating profiles, online gaming)
 * Identifying information includes: name, age, school, phone number, etc.
 * Face-to-face meetings are risky

K ||  || 1 ||  || 2 ||   || 3 ||   || 4 || * Discussion of Netiquette and coping with cyberbullying 5 ||  || 6 || Total of four lessons Lesson 1 – Screen names and passwords L esson 2 – Protecting private information – how indirect information can identify someone Lesson 3 – Online strangers Lesson 4 – 4 Rs of internet safety – recognize, refuse, respond, report Students seemed surprise at what you could learn from a user name and the information that they put on the internet about themselves. Arlene Gunia || 7 || Total of four "MINI" lessons (not so mini - about 45 min each), taught two of them Sverrir Georgsson || This lesson covered the same information as in the standard 7th grade lesson, but was easily adapted for the needs of this class using both iSAFE resources and other easily accessible resources. Susan || Saftey 7 || This unit was too long. It took me multiple days to just get through the first three lessons. The game at the end I modified and used for only half a class. Mary Johnston || 8 || Personal Safety (We spent one 41 minute class period discussing just "11" of "66" PowerPoint presentation slides included in this Topic). If we averaged 11 slides per day, we would need at least 6 full class days to complete this presentation...and that doesn't even include some of the various activities attached to this program's slides that we may or may not participate in. Once again, it seemed as though some of these students felt extremely comfortable "opening up" to me with their comments, remarks, and questions. These 8th grade students are not as naive as we may believe/think they are!!! I: Numerous Websites That We Reviewed A. Emailing and Newsgroups B. Privacy On The Internet C. Password Selection, etc. We had basically "just" reviewed the aforementioned topics during this one class period. I had selected one student to perform the secretarial duties of recording the comments and discussion of this class. II: Optional Online Activities For Students A. Topic: Be Smart, Be Safe a. Task: Basic Rules of the Internet b. Process: Internet Safety; Numerous Questions to Review and Discuss c. Resources: Various Informational Hyperlinks; i.e., Selecting a Screen name, Choosing a Password, etc. d. Evaluate: Conclusion...Sharing information with your classes and others
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 * Reviewed handouts
 * As a whole group completed and discussed online Aptitude page
 * Reviewed private information that should not be given out.
 * How to be safe and responsible while on line
 * Tied in with Cyber Citizenship and continued with our poster project. ||
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 * screen names, passwords, safety resolutions
 * Went over "Be Safe, Be Smart" handout - created online profile evaluated for sensitive information
 * Brainstormed places online asking for personal info - created online safety plan
 * went over "brittany's story"
 * went over "who knows what about you?"
 * identified places trolling for information online - chat rooms and how seemingly basic information can ID who a student is and where they live.
 * Went over ways to protect personal information in different situations.
 * Online Personal Safety 7th Special Ed. || I used the "Play It Safe Online" Lesson with a 7th grade sp. ed class. I didn't think the 7th grade ppt. would work well with them - too text heavy - so I used the ppt for the 5th grade lesson. It worked beautifully and sparked some excellent discussion. Rather than using the suggested activities in the 7th grade lesson, I used a clip from Unitedstreaming to reinforce and review the information discussed in the lesson.
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 * Lesson 1 provided good information. The students were interested and some were surprised by the information.
 * Lesson 2 This was our Danger Stranger Discussion. I broke the students down into groups of 3 to 5 and had them make lists of online safety rules. The groups then presentened to the class. This lesson could easily be expanded and posters with rules could be made for the school. Examples of students work will be on hand at 4-2-09 meeting.
 * Lesson 3 The chat race... by this lesson the students were really getting it. If I had the time, I would have modified the lesson and challenged the students to come up with screen names that meant something to them that would not give away any personal info and passwords they would not forget.
 * Reviewed Grooming Process
 * Wrapped up with Kelly's Story and some students shared their stories
 * I did a google search at the end of class and found that 10 days prior an underage girl had been caught in CA flying to meet her online "boyfriend" in OK. She was returned to her parents, and the police were still looking for the "boyfriend". I shared this with the class.
 * Lesson 4 We reveiwed and I split the class in half for the game. I should have broken the class into smaller groups and had moderators for each group. Perhaps a quiz would have been better. The game was cumbersome for the class size and I did not get to 'test' everyones knowledge.
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by Thomas F. Karpinski || 3 ||  || 4 ||   || 5 ||   || 6 ||  || 7 || This lesson lead to a good student discussion on the topic of cyber bullying and my student involvement was high. Mary Johnston || 8 || Cyber Bullying (We spent one 41 minute class period discussing "15" of the "22" PowerPoint presentation slides included in this topic). This class seemed to move much quicker than my other 8th grade class on Personal Safety.
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 * After the discussion, I handed out the worksheets from the lessons and had the students work on their own for the last 10 minutes of class.
 * I handed the worksheets back out the next day and let the students finish. We then went over the answers.
 * I found this lesson too short and not in-depth enough for the topic. If time had permitted, I would have expanded it and included more information. There are many good websites out there with information and lessons on cyber bullying that I feel would have offered the students more than this lesson.
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Once again, we didn't participate in any of the activities of this program (time was of essence). It seemed as though these students "opened up" to me very nonchalantly. There wasn't any inappropriate behavior/comments as we discussed some of these slides. A strong confidence between students and myself seemed to be in existence during these discussions.

Topics included: What is Bullying?

Discussions throughout these slides involved: by Thomas F. Karpinski || Cyber Harassment: Online Bullying and Stalking 6, 7, 8 ||  || 6 ||   || 4, 5, 6 ||   || 5, 6, 7, 8 ||   || Approach to Blogging 5, 6, 7, 8 ||  || 6, 7, 8 ||   || (Unit) 6, 7, 8 ||  || 6, 7, 8 ||   || 6, 7, 8 ||   || 6, 7, 8 ||   ||
 * You are able to abuse someone just for the fun of it
 * Calling people obscene or vulgar names online is online bullying
 * People are bullied who tend to have low esteem. This type of bully makes them feel good or superior about themselves
 * Bullys seek out mentally or physically handicapped people online to intentionally abuse them with online verbal abuse
 * "Morphing" (distorting) someone's picture to make them look unattractive, stupid, etc.
 * Posting any embarassing pictures and/or derogatory comments of people you don't/no longer like
 * Possibly, some individuals are being bullied by others at their home, school, etc., so they take their frustrations out on "easy prey" who are online.
 * There were numerous other topics on Bullying that we discussed, but this particular one really got my attention: One student stated that a friend of hers was diagnosed as HIV positive. Well, their friendship collapsed, and the friend without HIV posted a picture and information of the friend with HIV, as well as making the announcement that this person indeed was HIV positive on their Facebook website. For 13 or 14 year old students, or really anyone of any age, that statement is extremely cruel, as well as devastating to someone's reputation. I can't believe that students this age would do something as vindictive as this!!!
 * Webcast:
 * Safe Screen Names
 * Text Messaging
 * Play it Safe Online
 * Web Logs: A Positive
 * Web 2.0 World
 * Online Identity Safety
 * Your Digital Footprint
 * Social Networking
 * Online Shopping