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Holliston Public Schools

Internet Safety Week (Jan 30-Feb 3)

 

A community presentation sponsored by :

Holliston Public Schools, HEPO, MSPG, PTSA, HHSPG,

Leslie McDonnellDetective Jim Ward, & Fire Chief Michael Cassidy

 

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Parent Education Night

Movie Preview Filtering School Curriculum and Professional Development Cyber Citizenship Cyber Bullying Internet Safety Cyber Predators (movie preview) Cookies, Tracking, and History Popular Teen Sites (Myspace, Facebook) Questions and Answers

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Parent Education Night

Movie Preview

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Professional Learning Communities Invite

Collaboration

Police and FireDetective Jim Ward and Chief Mike Cassidy

ParentsSally Calhoun, Donald Grey, Erica Plunkett, and Lynne Oertel

LibrariansPriscilla Altoonian, Mary Shepherd, Paul McKenna, Ellen Ahern, Leslie McDonnell

Guidance and AdministrationJohn Powers, Charlie Egan

TechnologyJulie Elkan, Allie Curley, Winnie Carey, Paul Whalen, Kathy Dooley, Mary McNamara

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National Survey defined 3 types of

online victimization

1. Solicitations and approaches: Requests to engage in inappropriate activities, or talk or give personal information that were unwanted or, whether wanted or not, made by an adult.

2. Unwanted exposure: Without seeking or expecting inappropriate material, being exposed to inappropriate pictures when doing online searches, surfing the web, opening E-mail or E-mail links.

3. Harassment: Threats or other offensive behavior, sent online to the youth or posted online about the youth for others to see.

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Locations of Online Victimizations

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School Library Other SomeoneElse's Home

Home

Solicitation Unwanted Exposure Harassment

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Holliston Schools are CIPA Compliant

1. Technology Protection Measure Filtered Internet AccessMonitored use in the schools

2. Internet Safety Policy Acceptable Use Policy Signed every year by students and staff

3. Public Notice and HearingYearly review at public meetingReview Internet protection measures and acceptable use policy

For more info:http://www.universalservice.org/sl/tools/reference/CIPA.asp

http://www.mecnet.net/internet/filter.html

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Holliston Public Library

1. Student stations at the public Library Children’s section and adult section

2. Adult Section All Student stations are filtered PC’s in the carrels near the wall are filtered PC’s centered in library in public view are not

filtered Use monitored

3. Policy 30 minute use

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Content

I-Safe of America To help empower our nation’s

youth to safely and responsibly use the internet

www.isafe.org

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Student Curriculum

Kindergarten

Introduction to Communities & Safety

Grade 1 Cyber Communities

Grade 2 Keeping you and your computer safe

Grade 3 Cyber Community Citizenship

Grade 4 Intellectual Property, Citing Sources

Grade 5 Intellectual Property, Citing Sources, Copyright

Grade 6-9 Personal Internet Safety, Copyright

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Professional Development

Copyright Effective Search Techniques Evaluating Web Sites

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Internet Safety

During a 2003-2004 I-Safe survey of 20,000 middle school students:

10% were asked to meet someone face to face

16% received mean or threatening messages while on line

40% visited an inappropriate place on the internet

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Internet Safety 24% saw nothing wrong with chatting

with a stranger on the internet and 39% trusted those with whom they chatted

10% met someone from the internet face-to-face 4% more than once

52% said hurtful or angry things to another person online

45% illegally copied music from internet

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Cyber Community Citizenship

Online behavior Inappropriate Material Cyber Bullying

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Cyber Community Citizenship

There are over 10,000 hate sites on the internet There are a growing number of sites that

provide instructions on how to produce destructive items

There are 100,000 sites that sell child pornography

Kids and teens are gambling more than ever with the increase of gambling and betting sites

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Cyber Bullying ………is on the rise

During a 2003-2004 I-Safe survey of 1,500 middle school students, it was reported:

52% said hurtful things to another person 57% had someone say hurtful or angry

things to them 42% were bullied 34% were threatened online

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Cyber Bullying

Students bully through:

Personal Web Pages Community Web Pages E-Mail and Instant Messages Blogs and Blogrings

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Cyber BullyingTips: Guard your contact information Do not send a message when angry If harassed, do not reply. Log out,

immediately tell an adult Save harassing messages and

forward them to ISP If physically threatened, notify police

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Cyber Community Citizenship

Review Ways in which the cyber and physical

communities parallel each other: Inappropriate content/places to

explore Avoid and escape inappropriate

locations Bullying can exist anywhere there is

two-way communication

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Personal Safety

Screen Names Profiles Chat Rooms Instant Messaging Online Communities

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Personal Safety

It was reported that while online:

55% joined at least one website requesting personal information

25% saw nothing wrong with chatting with a stranger online

10% believed it was ok to post their picture online

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Personal Safety

Screen Name A name used when communicating

with others online.

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Personal Safety

LiLGr41390

Syracusebabe

Footballstar#5Clip art licensed from the Discovery Channel.com

Screen Name

A name used when communicating with others online.

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Personal Safety

Profile Online description of the user.

They are searchable and can be viewed by anyone.

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Personal Safety

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Personal Safety

Chat RoomA website, part of website, or part of an online service that provides a venue for communities of users with a common interest to communicate in real time.

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Personal Safety

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Personal Safety

Instant Messaging

The ability to exchange text messages with other Internet users in real time.

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Personal Safety CTN BRB P911 DIKU 99 PAL PM 9

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Personal Safety

CTN BRB P911 DIKU 99 PAL PM 9

Can’t talk now Be right back Parents are in room Do I know you The person has left the room Parents are listening Private message Someone is looking over my

shoulder

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Personal Safety

60% of online teens have received email

or instant messages from a perfectstranger

63% of them have responded

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Personal Safety www.myspace.com

Site to post an interactive web page with discussion links, photos, videos and even music.

www.webshots.com An online photo sharing site

www.facebook.comAn online directory that connects people through social networks at schools. (college and high school)

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Personal Safety

Online Communities Video

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Cyber Predators

Communication Tools

Chat rooms Private chat rooms Instant messaging E-mail Phone

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Cyber Predators

Christina Long

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What is a Cookie??? A cookie is a small text file of information

Certain web sites attach this file to a user’s hard drive when a user searches their site

Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user's machine and later retrieve it.

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What can you do?

View Cookies – monitor browsing

Delete Cookies – free up disk space

Reject – limits browsing

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Viewing Cookies

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AOL Instant Messenger

A parents nightmare?

Pros:Homework Helper

After-school friends

After-school parent contact

Cons:All consuming

On-line Predators

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AOL Instant Messenger

Tracking a child’s conversations

- Yahoo Messenger – free - GoodAIM – free- DeadAIM - $4.95

RAMSMMC: HeyChance it 7 2 3: heey Chance it 7 2 3: whos this?RAMSMMC: Hi Ally - it's Mom and I'm doing a project for work and

recording your responses for a parent class - I'm glad you asked Whos this!!

Chance it 7 2 3: haha yeah mom i dont tallk to creepy people who im me thanks for the trust :-)

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Tips and Tricks

- AOL is not required for IM

- Google Talk

- Yahoo Messenger

- MSN Messenger

AOL Instant Messenger

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AOL Instant Messenger

Tips and Tricks

- Block Users, Warn Users

- Location, Location, Location

- Left Open, Read It

- True Threats/Problems

- Contact Police

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Internet Safety Web Site

www.holliston.k12.ma.us

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Measures you can take at home

Although there are many recommended steps you can take, none are 100% guaranteed. The best action is to keep an open, ongoing dialogue with your child on his/her Internet use.