Cyber Safety
Introduction
The decisions made in your digital world affect you as much as those made in the real world. In fact, your digital decisions and behaviors can affect you more and for longer than decisions made in the real world--even with prospective employers and college applications!
Learning Objectives
When you have completed this Thing you will:
1. Know how to be safe while on the Internet, be a good digital citizen and protect your reputation and identity online.
2. Understand online etiquette, email etiquette and online bullying.
3. Meet an international standard for Empowered Learner and Digital Citizen.
4. Incorporate the 9 themes of Digital Citizenship, the Core Rules of Netiquette, the Digital Bill of Rights, and a tool of your choice to present your Digital Bill of Rights and internet safety
Step 1: Internet Safety Tips and Protecting Your Reputation Online
Before we begin, watch the short videos below:
Safe Web Surfing: Top Tips for Kids and Teens Online
and
1. People can save everything that is said online.
2. Only say online, what you’d be willing to say in person.
3. Be careful what pictures and videos you post/upload online.
4. Kids should tell a trusted adult if they feel they are in an uncomfortable situation. Your parents, guardian, grandparents, teachers, etc. should always know where you are going online (URL) and what you are doing.
5. Don't be stalk worthy and make sure you keep all of your passwords private.
6. Don’t open anything from people you do not know.
7. Never give out your personal information online. Where you live, your phone number, the school you attend, etc. should always be kept private.
8. Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. are NOT secure, even when set to private.
9. Not everyone online is who they say they are. NEVER agree to meet or talk to anyone who you don't know.
10. Use common sense!
Step 2: Six Clicks
In this part of the lesson you will view some videos to help you think through how much information can be found out online and privacy. How much information could be found out about you in 6 clicks? Watch these videos closely; have you left any personal identifiers on the net? In the Digital Footprint section we began to explore your presence, this looks at what might also be posted through connections to others that are online.
Key Vocabulary:
Personal identifiers: personal information about yourself that others can use without your consent or knowledge to steal your identity
Dossier: a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject
Steps:
1. Watch this resource on SchoolTube "Internet Safety: Do You Really Have a Private Life Online ." It will open in this window, however you can right-click on the hyperlink and select to open it in a new window.
2. Click on this link to view a (flash-based video) "6 Degrees of Information". It will open in a new window which you will need to close to return here.
3. Do you know the risks of posting inappropriate pictures, videos, or messages about yourself online? Next watch this video (flash-based) "Two Kinds of Stupid".
4. Watch this video about digital dossier (YouTube video).
Step 3: Google Docs: Safety Tips
Log into your Google Docs.
Click on New and select Docs.
Once your new document loads, rename this document Internet Safety Tips
Number your document 1-10
Step 4: Recording Internet Safety Tips
You will now be introduced to Interland
While playing this game, you will be using your Google Drive document to record AT LEAST 10 internet safety tips that you learned about while playing this game.
Once you have found all 10 of your safety tips and have typed them onto your
Google Document, you should then continue to explore the Interland
When you are done, you will have a total of 10 safety tips recorded on your Google Drive Document.
Step 5: Creating a Web Based Presentation
Google Slides is a FREE online tool that helps you to create
and deliver presentations. Because these presentation tools are web based, you can take your presentations wherever you go, access them from any computer and review, edit, share and deliver presentations on the go.
Using the information that you've learned in Steps 1 & 2, you are going to create a 12 slide Presentation using Google Slides.
Creating a Presentation in Google Drive
Open your Google Drive
Click on New
Select Google Slides
Requirements For Your Presentation
· Slide 1- Introduction or Title slide. You will have the title Internet Safety Tips, your name (first name and last initial only). You will also need an image and/or a background, an animation and a transition.
· Sides 2-11- Each slide will contain 1 safety tip that you discovered when playing and researching Interland and or Google
You will need to list the safety tips AND also give a detailed explanation of what the safety tip means.
(i.e. Keep Personal Information Private. You should never share your name, address, phone number, and school you attend with people you don't know online).
· ** Slides 1-11 MUST all have creative & colorful text (using Cool Text is an excellent resource), a background and/or image, animations (Right Click -> Animation) & a transition (you can apply the same transition to all slides).
**To make an image your slide background, right click on the image->order->send to back.
· Slide 12- Bibliography: You will now use the BibMe to create a
citation for the Interland website that you used to explore and research your internet safety tip.
To Create a Citation:
Go to Bib Me
Choose Website (on the top toolbar)
Paste the following URL and click Find Website:
https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland
Fill in the blank boxes as follows:
-Website Title: Interland
-Sponsor/Publisher: Google
-Version Number: Leave Blank
-Date Created: Leave Blank
-Date Accessed: This should be today's date and the date should be entered
automatically.
Click Add to My Bibliography to create your citation. Remember, if you cannot locate ALL of the information for the image/picture that is okay, you will just leave the boxes of the information you cannot find blank. The title, year, and URL are the most important.
Your citation will appear on the right side of the screen. Click Copy & Paste to copy your citation.
Go to your Google Drive presentation and add a text box to slide 12 and title it Bibliography. Add a colorful background and then a second text box.
Click INSIDE the text box and paste your completed citation into the text box (CTRL + V).
Be sure you change the colors, size and style of the font on each slide. Do not forget to add backgrounds, transitions and
pictures/images to each slide.
Sharing Your Presentation:
In order to get a grade on this assignment you MUST email me your
presentation.
·Click on Share (be sure to change the privacy to Anyone With Link).
·In the Add Members box type in my email address
·Click Save & Share