Safety issues

As we use the Web, especially when using online communities to post some of our multimedia works, there are some safety issues to keep in mind, and we should ALWAYS inform our students about these. This can be done during class, and reinforced by a school's policy (an acceptable usage policy, which can be connected to other policies on certain issues such as bullying or plagiarism). Some safety issues that we should be aware of are listed below.

Personal details

Personal details are sensitive information that can be used by people with bad intentions to establish contact with people, bully them, or even to steal online identities. Depending on their age, our students should keep their details to a minimum (no MSN contacts, no mobile phone, and so on) when creating accounts in online communities and should avoid publishing photos of themselves and their colleagues without their parents permission and to never arrange meetings with strangers through the Web.

Cyber-bullying

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