Safety Brochure
Safety BrochuresWorking in pairs you will research, make a two-fold double sided brochure on online safety in Social Networking sites for Elementary School students.
Your research should include:
Your brochure should include:
Here’s a start with some research:
Basic safety tips
The basic safety tips and rules apply for most online chat environments. Common sense and caution should always prevail but, there are some slight differences to the way chat rooms and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) operate.
Examples of basic safety tips for online chat rooms
Your research should include:
- How to report harmful images or messages.
- How to avoid ‘spammers’.
- What to do if someone you don’t know tries to contact you.
- How to change safety/privacy settings on different sites and email.
- A list of 5 important vocabulary words that you feel are important to understand the internet.
- Tips to keep your personal information and pictures off the internet.
Your brochure should include:
- All details listed above.
- Names, date, and block.
- Grammar and spell checking (proofread).
- At least 5 relevant images.
- Appropriate colour and detail/graphics.
- Catchy title.
- Bibliography (where did you get your information?)
Here’s a start with some research:
Basic safety tips
The basic safety tips and rules apply for most online chat environments. Common sense and caution should always prevail but, there are some slight differences to the way chat rooms and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) operate.
Examples of basic safety tips for online chat rooms
- Anything you type in a chat room can be seen by everyone who is using that chat room so be careful what you type. In cyberspace the walls don’t so much have ears as eyes.
- Choose an non identifiable, non gender specific screen name (and keep it clean!)
- Never give out any personal information whilst chatting online . That means your real name, telephone or cell phone number[s], mailing address, passwords, banking details etc. Ignore requests for personal information like A/S/L and be vague with responses to questions like WITW.
- Never accept files or downloads from people you don’t know or from people you do know, if you weren‘t expecting them. This includes URLs.
- Never arrange to meet someone offline that you only know through chat room conversations.
- Make sure you know how to save copies of your chat room conversations.
- Make sure you now how to report problems to the chat room moderator.