Unfortunately, cyber safety can sometimes fall into the 'hard basket' and there are some easy options out there including Hectors World. I am currently in the process of overhauling this for Terrace End school. Although we have had Hectors World as a guide, I have found it slow to load and not sophisticated enough to engage our older learners. I have decided to create a programme to cover a range of key areas including creative commons - this has been particulary relevant with all of our classes creating entries for the first ever Manawatu Digi Awards. My thoughts are not firm yet but I have been investigating the process other ICT PD clusters have gone through and am wanting to create a user friendly, no nonense approach to this. As a regular user of Facebook I am constantly shocked by the number of young people (often too young to legally be on Facebook) who have no idea about how to keep their personal information safe - including potentially damaging photographs of themselves. To see how many 'friends' a 12 year can collate (many children have 200 or more) suggests that many of these people are in fact strangers and potentially a threat. I will keep updating this blog with my progress and our final cyber safety guidelines/resources as they develop over the coming weeks. How have others tackled this? A generic online programme or something more personal to their school/community?
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Hi Mary, you might find what the Digital Daze 2.0 cluster over in the Hawke's Bay has developed as individual schools helpful. Not programmes, but the starting point as each school has defined and graphically represented the concept of digital citizenship. Here is an example from Reignier Catholic School
The link to the cluster wiki: http://digitaldaze2-ictcluster.wikispaces.com/
More examples can be found on each schools individual page.
Nick
Some nice clear diagram on how to tackle digital citizenship
Andrew Churches talks about: