Cyber+Safety

Citizenship is a continually evolving concept. It is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. As these contexts change, so too does the concept of being a citizen within them. Citizenship involves understanding the ‘rules’ and boundaries that exist, and involves both rights and responsibilities. As our world expands to include the ‘virtual’, so too do the following lenses on citizenship:
 * Digital Citizenship**
 * Global – ICTs can help us understand and explore our place in the global marketplace, and what it means to be a global citizen
 * Digital – the ability to work with, adapt to, and be confident with digital technologies defines a digital citizen.


 * Cyber – a cybercitizen is one who accepts and understands the rights and responsibilities of inhabiting ‘cyberspace’, including issues of online safety etc.

This Term (term 2 2011) the cluster will be working with our students to help make them successful and safe digital citizens. On this page we will place a series of resources for cluster use. Suggestion - start with the three videos from Hectors World as per below. When the pause button comes up on the button click on it and engage students in discussion.

http://ictpd-digital-citizenship-and-copyright.wikispaces.com/ - Work modules regarding copyright http://ictpd-digital-citizenship-at-home.wikispaces.com/ - Digital Citizenship in the Home
 * Links to DC Modules from ICTPD On-Line**
 * http://ictpd-digital-citizenship-and-cybersafety.wikispaces.com/Home -** This link contains the three modules which are self pacing and easy to work through.

This website [] is a really good resource to have on hand. For Y7 and up pop on to [|www.netsmartz.org] for a huge range of materials and videos. A great site.

Use this site to engage students to work through a range of internet safety inter-active programmes. You will need to ensure they have headphones and access to a printer. This will take a couple of hours to work through but doesn't have to be completed in one session. The students love it as it is both challenging and inter-active. []

Click on the link to download the file we have created. A good way of using it is to highlight the expected areas of achievement for your particular class. This enables the student to achieve beyond the expected. I have kept this file in doc format so it can be adapted to suit your own needs.
 * Digital Literacy Certificate**
 * **Cyber Safety Tips** || **Making a Strong Password** || **Student Worksheet** ||
 * [[file:20110518015604.pdf]] || [[file:Make a strong password worksheet.pdf]]

Use this worksheet in combination with the student sheet to the right. Get the students to have a crack at creating a safe password and then test its strength on [|www.passwordmeter.com]. You will find if they follow the basic instructions on the sheet it might rank at about 50% safe but as soon as they shift the mix around, combine numbers with capital letters etc the safety ranking will lift to around 90%. || ||
 * Some useful You Tube Clips (for Year 7 and up) - For younger students go to Hectors World links as per below.**

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There is some great stuff on this website revolving around cyber safety. It's full of resources and activities and well worth a look at. There's a good little video the younger students would enjoy on this website [|Cyber Safety Video] Here are another two videos to help students understand about keeping safe on the internet. []
 * Hectors World**

There's a huge raft of information on the Hectors World Netsafe Site. [|Hectors World Net Safe]


 * Student Resources -** These resources are all on line and ready to go. They are designed for students to work through independently. They are easy to understand and very user friendly. You will need sound working on the computers (use headphones).
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 * Internet Safety** - This slide show courtesy of Tom McGee is well worth a look at - perhaps as a whole staff

media type="custom" key="9346060" Letter to parent re Wiki Launch

After discussions around internet safety and what schools do to protect themselves and their students it was decided to put a sample policy structure on this wiki. This is what Mangakahia use and they have made this available to others to use as a template. Please feel free to adapt it and post any discussion around what changes could be made to it on the discussion tab. If you would like this document in word format please let me know via the discussion tab.