Safety

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Safety Privacy on the Net

• Sharing is NOT always a virtue!
• (and we aint talking computer lice here)

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Privacy is a road less traveled

• Electronic information travels in packets
• Packets may travel different routes
• Sender?recipient
• Sinkholes, stops, voids
• Free services, commercial services, cookies,
  voyeurs, crooks

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Too trustingnot too safe!!!

• Anonymity
• False faces
• Scams and fraud
• Intent not perceived
• No intuition available
• Sales people
• Perverts
• Predators

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Who is vulnerable?
Everyone!!!
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For adultsits already out there!

• Credit information
• Banking and investment information
• Health and employment records
• Driving and insurance records
• Academic records
• Criminal and court records
• Demographics

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For studentsits our job to protect them!

• First, middle, last and nick names
• Contact information
• Grades and classroom specifics
• Reputation
• Faces and special features
• Family information
• Exposure

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Wouldyou nail this
to a telephone pole?
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dont get burned

• student middle or last name
• first name only, never with student picture
• special nicknames
• too easy to make child think he/she is known
• personal contact information
• school or teacher contact information only

don't publish
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limit online exposure

• specific family information
• Your dad, Bill, sent me to take you to his work
• revealing student work
• journal entries, auto- or biographies, personal
  interviews, confidential records
• student-specific schedules or special, personal
  details about homelife

don't publish
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an ounce of prevention

• searching and surfing for a defined purpose
• make an online resource with links of interest
• filtering software, security software
• minors, by definition, are not responsible
• closed/moderated online communities
• ePals, eGroups, Gaggle.net

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spf 100 (student protection factor)

• constant supervision by adult(s)
• preferably knowledgeable about the web
• teach procedures for avoiding and reporting
  inappropriate information dangerous situations
• reward honesty appropriate behavior
• educate, educate, educate!!!

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Protect yourself

• Signed AUP from every student..if not, dont post
• Signed release form for publishing student work
• Signed, special release form for publishing
  student pictures
• Check site/district policy
• Make up your own forms if you must

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Resources

• Yahooligans! Parent Guide on Safe Surfing
  http//www.yahooligans.com/parents/
• SafeKids Information for Families About Safe
  Internet Use
• http//www.safekids.com/
• SafeTeens Information for Teens in Safe Internet
  Use
• http//www.safekids.com/safeteens/
• Safe Surfing Yahooligans Savvy Surfing Quiz
  http//www.yahooligans.com/parents/kids/quiz.html
  
• A TechKnow Site by PBS http//pbskids.org/did_you_
  know/techknow/