Digital Citizenship: Online Safety I

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In these activities, we're going to talk about online safety or Internet safety.

1. Think over these questions. Jot down some notes; you'll need your notes afterwards.

- What do you know about online safety?
- Have you ever heard of...?

  Internet scams       malware              phishing           offensive content
  cyberstalking     cyberbullying    online predation (child/sexual grooming)

- How are these concepts related to online safety?

Now, you're going to read Worried Jack's email to an agony aunt.
In the email, you'll find these expressions:

    agony aunt       social networking site       share       arrange outings
    log onto/in (a website)          get into (an account) / get in         profile
    mobile number         hurtful things        call (somebody) names
    come up to (somebody)         hack into (an account)        cause havoc
    user ID        log off         take over       block       trust       harassment
    take action against (somebody)

2. Before reading the email, make sure you know all these expressions.
You can look them up in the online dictionaries on your right.
 What can you do to learn and remember these expressions?

3. Click on this link. Then click on Part I: Worried Jack.

4. As you read (or listen to) the email, find this information in the email:
    a. What does Worried Jack use the social networking site for?
    b. What was the matter with Worried Jack's account?
    c. How can Worried Jack's reputation be affected?

5. If you were the agony aunt, what would you suggest that Worried Jack should do?

6. Post a comment with your answers below.

Digital Citizenship: what kind of online relationships do you have?

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In this activity, we're going to talk about the kind of online relationships we establish.

- Have a close look at the photo above, what do you think the quote is about?

- Read Charlie Gilkey's quote (next to the photo) and check your answers.

- Have another close look at the photo and read the quote again.
  How does the photo help you understand the quote?

- What does he mean when he says,
 "we expose our inner selves but we hide our outer selves"?
- What kind of online relationship does he refer to?
- Is this bad/unhealthy/dangerous or good/healthy/safe?
- Why?

- Post a comment with your answer below.

Digital Citizenship: before you facebook, text, tweet or blog, THINK!

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In this activity, we're going to explore the concept of digital citizenship.

1. Think over these questions:

- What is digital citizenship?
- Are you a responsible digital citizen? Yes? No? Why?

2. Let's compare your answers to the information on this website:
Digital Citizenship

3. Let's play!

- Click on this link digizen.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
- When you finish, reflect upon this:
     What have you learnt?
     What did you like most? Why?
     What did you dislike most? Why?
     Is there anything else you'd like to say about this activity?

- Post a comment with your answer below.

A name for our blog

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In this activity, you're going to choose an appropriate name for our blog.

Before doing this activity, read all the instructions and make sure you understand what you have to do.

If you're in doubt, post a message on the wall (Google+ community). You'll get some help.

Are you ready?
Let's get started.

Instructions:

1. Read the blog description (the statement under the title of the blog).
2. Think of a name. The name must be relevant to the blog description.
3. Type in the name (in the AnswerGarden tool below).
4. Press the submit-button to add your name. The name will be published in the word cloud below.

Now, if you like one of the existing names in the word cloud, you can click on it. So you will skip step 4 above.



How shall we name our blog?... at AnswerGarden.ch.