Internet Safety Posters

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1. Mrs Murphy says:

   November 11, 2012 at 7:29 am

   Dear Kathleen,

   As usual, you have created clear and simple to use materials for our classrooms, school, and even home now! The tips are fantastic and the posters are simple and will be really effective I think.

   In the teacher’s poster, I love your tip about teaching internet safety authentically. It has to have a place in the real world for it to make sense to students.

   In the parent’s poster, my favourite tip is to remind children that not everything you read on the internet is true. We used this video and this list of fake websites recently in the classroom and we fooled MOST of the class!
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA&feature=player_embedded
   http://www.180techtips.com/124.htm

   My favourite tip from the student’s poster is the YAPPY acronym. I have never heard it before and I will be sharing it with my class this week!

   Thanks again for great resources and thoughtful posts!
   Áine

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   • Mrs Kathleen Morris says:

     November 11, 2012 at 8:11 am

     Hi Áine,

     Thanks for commenting!

     I hadn’t seen those resources before for teaching about not believing everything you see/read. I have put them in my Diigo and will be sure to use them!

     I’m glad you’ll be using YAPPY in your classroom too. We originally found it on a Garfield cartoon. You can find the link here http://4kmand4kj.global2.vic.edu.au/2012/02/08/safer-internet-day/

     Kathleen

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2. Stephanie Gomillion says:

   November 14, 2012 at 7:06 am

   Hi Mrs. Morris,
   I’m Stephanie Gomillion, an EDM310 student at the University of South Alabama. I think you did a great job on the posters! My favorite tips came from the parent poster. The YAPPY tip I’ve never heard of before, that’s a pretty neat idea. The tip on not allowing children to spend all of their free time online is a super good tip!!! Lastly, not allowing children to make accounts on websites that aren’t age appropriate is another great one; I feel like some teachers forget about things like that and have their students make accounts for instagram and such.

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   • Mrs Kathleen Morris says:

     November 14, 2012 at 9:35 am

     Hi Stephanie,

     Great to hear from you! YAPPY certainly is a useful acronym to use in the classroom. It is quite sad when you see a lot of children spending nearly all of their leisure time indoors on the computers. Balance is always good! I think a lot of teachers are quite unaware that many websites come with age restrictions. It’s very important that teachers are educated about this.

     Hope to hear from you again and good luck with you studies.

     Kathleen

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3. Rosemary Hazle says:

   January 28, 2013 at 3:26 pm

   Hello! Thank you so much for posting these posters. I found them very helpful and informative! I am about to spend the remainder of the school year teaching a technology class to primary grade students and plan to use this information to help them, myself, and their parents out with their internet safety!
   Thanks for the tips!

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   • Mrs Kathleen Morris says:

     January 28, 2013 at 3:31 pm

     Thanks, Rosemary. Enjoy!

     Kathleen

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