An interactive tool for learning about making good choices using communication tools

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An interactive tool for learning about making
good choices using communication tools
Making Good Choices
Pick one
About the creator
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Making Good Choices with Cell Phones
Situation 3
Situation 2
Situation 1
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Making Good Choices with Cell Phones Situation 1
Cell Phone Cameras

• Your best friend and fellow athlete has
  challenged you to sneak your cell phone into
  the locker room and take photos of a classmate in
  their underwear - as a joke. How do you respond?
• You are always in for a laugh and go for it.
• You tell your friend that youll take the
  photos, but you retain control of the photos.
• You tell your friend that you will not do it.

Making Good Choices with Cell Phones Menu
Situation 3
Situation 2
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Situation 1 Cell Phone Cameras

1. You tell your friend that you will not do it.

Good Choice
Taking photos in a locker room will get you into
serious trouble and is against the law. Its
hard to keep it a secret. Find a new friend.
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Situation 2
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Situation 1 Cell Phone Cameras
A. You are always in for a laugh and go for it.
Bad Choice
Taking photos in a locker room will get you into
serious trouble and is against the law. Its
hard to keep it a secret. Find a new friend.
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Situation 2
Situation 1
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Situation 1 Cell Phone Cameras
B. You tell your friend that youll take the
photos, but you retain control of the photos.
Bad Choice
Taking photos in a locker room will get you into
serious trouble and is against the law. Its
hard to keep it a secret. Find a new friend.
TRY AGAIN
Making Good Choices with Cell Phones Menu
Situation 3
Situation 2
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Making Good Choices with Cell Phones Situation 2
Text Messaging Cars

• While driving down the expressway, you receive a
  text message about a last minute change in plans
  for your date on Friday night. You want to text
  a reply immediately. What do you do?
• Exit the expressway and find a place to park to
  text a reply.
• You are good at multi-tasking and traffic is
  light, stay on the expressway and text a short
  reply.
• Pull off on the shoulder of the expressway and
  text a reply.

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Situation 3
Situation 1
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Situation 2 Text Messaging Cars
A. Exit the expressway and find a place to park
to text a reply.
Good Choice
Text messaging is the number one distracting
activity in a national survey of 900 licensed
teens completed by SADD. 44 of teen deaths in
the US are caused by teen traffic crashes. Pull
off and park safely to text a reply.
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Situation 3
Situation 2
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Situation 2 Text Messaging Cars
B. You are good at multi-tasking and traffic is
light, stay on the expressway and text a short
reply.
Bad Choice
Text messaging is the number one distracting
activity in a national survey of 900 licensed
teens completed by SADD. 44 of teen deaths in
the US are caused by teen traffic crashes. Pull
off and park safely to text a reply.
TRY AGAIN
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Situation 2
Situation 1
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Situation 2 Text Messaging Cars
C. Pull off to the side of the expressway and
text a reply.
Bad Choice
Text messaging is the number one distracting
activity in a national survey of 900 licensed
teens completed by SADD. 44 of teen deaths in
the US are caused by teen traffic crashes. Pull
off expressway and park to reply.
TRY AGAIN
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Situation 2
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Making Good Choices with Cell Phones Situation 3
Captive Listener

• Minutes into a drive to an out-of-town game, your
  friend gets a call from someone they are dating.
  They talk the entire drive while you just listen.
  The call finally ends with a promise to call
  again on the drive home. For the drive home you
  decide to
• Ignore the issue. Your friend is rude. Live
  with it.
• Say something to your friend. You dont want to
  listen in on their calls for an entire drive
  back home.
• Borrow an MP3 player and be prepared to just
  tune out.

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Situation 2
Situation 1
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Situation 3 Captive Listener
B. Say something to your friend.
Good Choice
Many users have cell phones and have never
learned cell phone etiquette. Have the courage
to speak up and be honest about how it feels to
be a captive listener. Be clear about what you
expecte.g. a 5 minutes call is okay.
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Making Good Choices with Cell Phones Menu
Situation 3
Situation 2
Situation 1
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Situation 3 Captive Listener
A. Ignore the issue. Your friend is rude. Live
with it.
Bad Choice
Help them learn appropriate cell phone etiquette.
Have the courage to speak up and be honest about
how it feels to be a captive listener. Be clear
about what you expect a 5 minutes call is fine
but 30 minute call is not.
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Situation 2
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Situation 3 Captive Listener
C. Borrow an MP3 player and be prepared to just
tune out.
Bad Choice
Help them learn appropriate cell phone etiquette.
Have the courage to speak up and be honest about
how it feels to be a captive listener. Be clear
about what you expect a 5 minutes call is fine
and 30 minute call is not.
TRY AGAIN
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Making Good Choices with IM Instant Messaging
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Situation 2
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Making Good Choices with IM Situation 1 - Privacy

• As a joke, a classmate posts your email and IM
  name to a local singles chat room called Looking
  for Love. How do you respond?
• Ignore the problem. No big deal. You might
  even get a date!
• Talk to your classmate and ask them to arrange
  to have it removed. Check to see that it has
  been removed.
• Change your email and IM names, then make plans
  to do something to payback your classmate for
  their prank.

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Situation 3
Situation 2
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Situation 1 - Privacy
B. Talk to your classmate and ask them to arrange
to have it removed. Check to see that it has
been removed.
Good Choice
Impersonating you and/or posting information as
if they are you is not funny. It can also be
grounds for civil action. Get a new friend.
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Situation 2
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Situation 1 - Privacy

1. Ignore the problem. No big deal. You might even
   get a date!

Bad Choice
Who knows where else they impersonated you and
posted your information. Send a clear messages
this has to stop.
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Situation 2
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Situation 1 - Privacy
C. Change your email and IM names, then make
plans to do something to payback your classmate
for their prank.
Bad Choice
Retaliating will continue the exchange. Stop
this immediately. Who knows where else they have
posted your information.
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Making Good Choices with IM Menu
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Situation 2
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Making Good Choices with IM Situation 2 Meeting
an IM Friend

• You have been IMing a new friend you met through
  an online game site. They offer to loan you a
  popular new PSP game and suggest meeting at a
  park after school. How do you respond?
• Meet them and borrow the game. Nothing could
  happen.
• Agree to meet them but bring a weapon. Come
  prepared.
• Learn more about them and if you feel okay, meet
  them. Tell someone about your meeting, bring
  another person and a cell phone.

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Situation 3
Situation 1
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Situation 2 Meeting an IM Friend
C. Learn more about them and if you feel okay,
meet them. Tell someone about your meeting,
bring another person and a cell phone.
Good Choice
You must be very cautious about meeting someone
youve only met online. Never meet them alone
and meet in a public place such as a mall.
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Making Good Choices with IM Menu
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Situation 2
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Situation 2 Meeting an IM Friend
A. Meet them and borrow the game. Nothing could
happen.
Bad Choice
You must be very cautious about meeting someone
youve only met online. Never meet them alone
and meet in a public place such as a mall.
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Making Good Choices with IM Menu
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Situation 2
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Situation 2 Meeting an IM Friend
B. Agree to meet them but bring a weapon.Come
prepared.
Bad Choice
You must be very cautious about meeting someone
youve only met online. Never meet them alone.
A weapon could be used against you.
TRY AGAIN
Making Good Choices with IM Menu
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Situation 2
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Making Good Choices with IM Situation 3
Inappropriate IM

• A new friend from school has started to IM you.
  The last few messages have made you feel
  uncomfortable with a lot of sarcasm and off color
  humor. How do you respond?
• Confront your friend and let them know how you
  feel.
• Just roll with it. Your friend will soon learn
  what is acceptable and what is not acceptable
  through others.
• Stop chatting with them and tell your other
  friends about what your former friend was
  saying online.

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Situation 2
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Situation 3 Inappropriate IM
A. Confront your friend and let them know howyou
feel.
Good Choice
There is no need for sarcasm and off color humor
in your communications. If you value this
friendship then say something.
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Situation 3 Inappropriate IM
B. Just roll with it. Your friend will soon
learn what is acceptable and what is not
acceptable through others.
Bad Choice
Even if you try to roll with it, it will bug you.
Its probably bothering others and someone needs
to say something. Have courage and do it.
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Situation 3 Inappropriate IM
C. Stop chatting with them and tell your other
friends about what your former friend was
saying online.
Bad Choice
Others probably already know through their
communications with this person. Be a true friend
and say something to this person.
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Making Good Choices with MySpace
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Making Good Choices with MySpace Situation 1
Showing Site to Parents

• Unknown to your parents, you created an awesome
  MySpace site. They found out and want to see
  your site. How do you respond?
• Refuse to show it to them or give them the
  password. They have no rights to see it as
  it is your space.
• Create a second, parent approved site and show
  them this. Keep your real site private from your
  parents.
• Share your site with your parents. Show how you
  are not posting anything inappropriate or that
  would put you at risk.

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Situation 3
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Situation 1 - Showing Site to Parents
C. Share your site with your parents. Show how
you are not posting anything inappropriate or
that would put you at risk.
Good Choice
Your site represents you to the world. Colleges
and employers often find ways to see it. If you
cant show your parents, remove it.
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Situation 2
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Situation 1 - Showing Site to Parents
A. Refuse to show it to them or give them the
password. They have no rights to see it as it
is your space.
Bad Choice
Your site represents you to the world. Colleges
and employers will see it. If you live at home,
show your parents.
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Situation 1 - Showing Site to Parents
B. Create a second, parent approved site and
show them this. Keep your real site private from
your parents.
Bad Choice
Your site represents you to the world. Colleges
and employers often find ways to see it. Your
parents will find out.
TRY AGAIN
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Making Good Choices with MySpace Situation 2 Be
My Friend Invitation

• Your MySpace privacy settings are high and do not
  encourage invitations from others. You recently
  received an email invitation from an attractive
  person of the opposite sex who wants to be your
  MySpace friend. How do you respond?
• Delete the email invitation and ignore it.
  Double check your MySpace profile and privacy
  settings.
• Email them back for more information before
  accepting.
• If they are attractive, by all means accept the
  invite.

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Situation 2 Be My Friend Invitation
A. Delete the email invitation and ignore it.
Double check your MySpace profile and privacy
settings.
Good Choice
Do not trust profiles or photos. The 15 year
old may be a 50 year old in prison. Do not
reply or accept unknown invitations. Ever.
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Situation 2 Be My Friend Invitation
B. Email them back for more information before
accepting.
Bad Choice
Do not trust profiles or photos. They want you
to continue the conversation. You have enough
information you do not know them.
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Situation 2 Be My Friend Invitation
C. If they are attractive, by all means accept
the invite.
Bad Choice
Do not trust profiles or photos. The attractive
photo may be a 50 year old in prison. Do not
reply or accept unknown invitations. Ever.
TRY AGAIN
Making Good Choices with MySpace Menu
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Making Good Choices with MySpace Situation 3
Photos on Friends Site

• You have been careful to only post appropriate
  photos on your MySpace site and no names. You
  link to your friends site and find extremely
  embarrassing photos of you at a recent party
  along with your first and last name! How do you
  respond?
• Block them in MySpace and remove them from
  Friends list.
• Contact them and ask them to immediately remove
  the photo and your name. Be clear that they
  made a bad choice.
• Its no big deal. Pay them back - post some
  photos of them.

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Situation 3 Photos on Friends Site
B. Contact them and ask them to immediately
remove the photo and your name. Be clear that
they made a bad choice.
Good Choice
Your full name and embarrassing photos can put
you at risk from a cyber predator. Employers and
colleges will find you on your friends sites.
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Situation 3 Photos on Friends Site
A. Block them in MySpace and remove them from
Friends list.
Bad Choice
1 priority is to get the embarrassing photos and
your name removed. Simply blocking your friend
and removing their name is not enough.
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Situation 3 Photos on Friends Site
C. Its no big deal. Pay them back - post some
photos of them.
Bad Choice
Embarrassing photos can be seen by future
employers and cost you a job. If you post
similar photos, the problem will escalate.
TRY AGAIN
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About the creatorAndy Mann
Andy Mann is the Educational Technology
Consultant for the Calhoun Intermediate School
District in Marshall, MI. He is the father of
four young children and enjoys cycling on the
familys tandem bicycle with his wife Heidi. Andy
is a champion for Internet Safety and Free/Open
Source solutions for K 12 schools and
frequently presents at conferences across
Michigan. He is also helps schools in extending
their learning by using Blackboard and Moodle.
His website is www.techforschools.com
Bonus
Buddy Builders Social Networking Quiz/Game
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Certification of Completion
Name

• Has successfully completed Making Good Choices,
  an interactive tool for learning about making
  good choices using cell phones, Instant
  Messaging, and MySpace.

Andrew Mann
Designer and Internet Safety Trainer