Internet Safety Training

I’ve been working hard over the weekend to pull together the presentation material for Tuesdays Internet Safety Evening for Parents and Families. We have been very pleased with the support for the evening from our parent community, but like all these things it’s always be nice to have a few more parents in attendance.

As well as parents we have been contacted by a few other schools that are sending staff to see if they can copy our model or just to get themselves up-to-date with Internet Safety. If your not a parent at Musselburgh Grammar School but would like to come along out of your own interest, you are more then welcome to attend. I just need to know that you are coming (so I can order some extra biscuits!). Send me an email or leave me a comment here if your interested.

The rough format of the evening is:

1. Welcome (from Headteacher)

2. Dangers, Reality and Implications (input from Police and Social Work)

3. Staying safe on-line and social networking (that’s my bit!)

4. Protecting your home computer (that's not my bit!)

5. Ask an expert

During my part of the presentation I will be showing the audience what a number of social networking sites look like in real life. These will include moderated and un-moderated chat rooms, Bebo, Habba Hotel and Instant Messaging.

The Young Scot Space Bus will be on-site so there will be plenty of opportunity for some hands one experience.

Comments

[Dorothy]

Your "expert" in Section 5...that'll be one of the kids I expect :-)

[OllieBray]

Not a chance. Young people are very good at using the Internet but awful at staying safe on-line. A recent sample of 200 Musselburgh Grammar profiles (there are over 1000 all together) on Bebo reviled that over 95% were un-locked. Over 80% used their first and last name and about 20% listed their address or mobile phone number. This is scary stuff!

[Lee]

Here's one I liked, and made the kids take notice....maybe a bit insulting to jannies though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBz-hxjSLU

[Thomas Hansson]

Youths are usually really bad with security, remember when I was involved in the support of an online game (managerzone), not too seldom they had their username as password and they did get scammed quite often, when other members sent e-mails telling them to send their username and password to a phony e-mail adress.
Another thing that has become quite big here in Sweden is sites where you put up pictures from partys and so on. There is quite alot of pictures of very drunk youngsters, and they do not always know that these pictures exists, and if they do, they can't do much about it.
But the main thing is to get the youths to not post personal info on the net, there has been some cases where they have got in all sorts of trouble because of that.