Sue Pickering – e-Safety Consultant

Marianne Green – Head of Workforce & Leadership (Colleges)

Freedom online

Do you have a voice in your College?

Dilemma Exercise

•Using the internet is mainly a very positive experience. However, consider the following dilemma and discuss with your table colleagues

•Agree which of the following is most appropriate with regard to assessing the risk level:

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Dilemma

•Lois’s friend offers to share their Instant Messenger (like MSN) contacts. Lois is very pleased because she now has 150 ‘friends’.

•Lois’s ‘friends’ have been collected by sharing address books.

•She only knows about one third of the people in her contact list.

•She has used the features in MSN to sort her ‘friends’ into groups – school, home friends, family, holiday mates.

•She also has a group for ‘friends of friends’ i.e. internet strangers.

•She does not give out any personal details to these people. •She is happy to chat online with friends of friends, but

nothing more.•She does not use her web cam when she talks to this group.

Restrict?

or

Educate?

Protect?

or

Exclude?

E-Safety

E-Safety covers, but is not limited to…..

• Cyber bullying/stalking/threatening (4 in every 10 learners have been victims)• Grooming• Flaming• Happy Slapping• Shopping• Attack by Viruses or other malware• Intentional abuse/attack (Phishing, Spoofing, Violence and Terrorism)• Intentional misuse of facilities or equipment• Wireless and hardwired networks • Data Transfer • Use of memory sticks• Downloads• Pornography• Etc, etc

Acceptable User Policy

• Are you aware of an Acceptable User Policy in your College?

• Were you involved in its development?

• Are any of these included in the AUP? Using your own technology in the College Protecting your personal information online Downloading music, videos, media - Are you aware of the penalties? Accessing social networking or Second Life sites - Are there

restrictions? Using Twitter, Skype, MSN, Blogs or Wikies to communicate with

tutors? Information about someone you can go to if you receive information

which contains unacceptable content or contains information you find offensive?

What can you do?

• Contribute to the development of AUPs / e-Safety Policy• Read the Policies and adhere to them• Take responsibility for keeping safe online

Regularly change passwords – don’t share them! Use mix of upper/lower case letters/numbers/symbols

Set social networking space to private: don’t include name, address or DOB

Home wireless – is it secure? Memory sticks – are they encrypted?

• Censor yourself online: consider what a future employer might think of your postings –

fluffypinkbunny@hotmail.com Chat rooms – info for criminals ie address or on holiday

• Respect the feeling, rights, values and intellectual property rights of others• Support others who may be experiencing e-Safety issues