Cyber+Safety

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Go to the **Working with the Web** page for **a guide to ethical and safe use of the internet in Victorian schools** [] []

Budd:e An excellent resource for helping students become more cybersafe.

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[|Policy & Code of Conduct] Schools will be required to review their Student Code of Conduct the end of **Term 2 2008**, to ensure that it includes anti-bullying and anti-harassment strategies. Schools must: For more information about the code of conduct, see the publication [|Safe Schools are Effective Schools (PDF - 616Kb)].
 * Look at the[|Student Code of Conduct], which provides schools with systematic strategies for fostering and maintaining student discipline. In developing and implementing the Student Code of Conduct schools aim to foster high standards of behaviour based on co-operation, mutual responsibility, self-discipline and the promotion of positive, non-discriminatory relationships among students.
 * Look at the Department’s [|anti-bullying policy] which provides guidelines and policies in relation to safe and supportive school environments.
 * Involve students, staff and parents in the development of policy and strategies to prevent and respond to all forms of bullying.
 * Provide a statement which clearly highlights that all forms of bullying, whether it be physical, verbal or cyber are not tolerated at any level.
 * Outline expectations about appropriate behaviour of students including rights and responsibilities.
 * Outline expectations about appropriate behaviour of students in relation to cyber safety including rights and responsibilities.
 * Outline the schools response to incidences of bullying, including cyber bullying.

Considerations for protecting identities
Students choose an e-name or nickname to protect their true identity eg trogger instead of Thomas and use this for their online work User names and email addresses should be as for school computer usage where protection tends to be most secure. intro to what it takes to thrive in the 21st century http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=66ce488946e40d8b4694 http://www.nsteens.org/videos/index.html http://www.netsmartz.org/ http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=eab5d895aa3023fe78b9 teenag internet safety http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=fa98e23149cf8e1bee57 More bookmarked sites at http://del.icio.us/njtechteacher/internet_safety**Lesson plans to download and student activity sheets at** http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans/download_grade.asp [|**http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=764c8e3a691fa2b3a321**] [|**Great list of cybersafety sites**] in 'nobody knows your a dog' from the blogwalker [|4.org/cybersafety/] A blog post that talks about safety in the home, and re the role of parents in all this. http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/04/10/a-common-sense-approach-to-internet-safety/** Cyber bullying avoidance **http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2008/2/14/cyberbullying-guide-as-promised.html How one school in England tackled it :http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=526710&in_page_id=1770 Why we need to allow students to use the technology and teach them Further resources** Victorian Education Channel http://www.education.vic.gov.au/teacher/Global/podcasting.htm The ABC Radio National Edpod http://www.abc.net.au/rn/edpod/ Internet Content Rating Association http://www.icra.org/ ThinkUknow http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ Childnet International http://www.childnet-int.org/ Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre [|http://www.ceop.gov.uk] Get Safe Online http://www.getsafeonline.org/ http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2008/02/questioning_the_notion_of_onli.html**
 * Some ideas** **for an image ID**
 * use MS Paint to create personal image, crop it, save it as a jpg file and keep this for the computer ID image. Some choose to use the school photo and paint over it so much that they were unrecognisable.
 * goto [|www.weemees.com]www.weemees.com and create a weemee image (note this may be blocked at some schools as is has a chat room element)
 * goto [|www.voki.com]www.voki.com to create a video computer image that will talk and can be embedded in blogs, wikis etc.
 * also see the link to avatars on this wiki
 * Great online video sites for teenagers**
 * For children
 * For parents

**Digital Citizenship Today** [|**http://coe.k-state.edu/digitalcitizenship/**]

More [|Cyber Safety Resources]