The wide range of concerns related to cybersafety is quite overwhelming.
The Allanah & Madeline Foundation: Cybersafety and Wellbeing Initiative is a great stepping stone to lots of information. It will be interesting to read about the progress of the pilot program that is about to be launched in a variety of Government, Catholic and Independent schools later this year.
There acma: cyber(smart:) site (acma stands for Australian Communication and Media Authority) is another stepping stone to a vast range of valualbe resources. The Libraries page includes a range of downloadable resources and videos for use by Library Staff. In particular the The Cybersmart Guide for Library Staff is packed with much valuable information. And if this isn’t enough information, go check out all the resources available at the Schools GATEWAY where a range of facts, online pages and videos are available. This resource looks excellent!
Cybersmart K-12 Curriculum has a well thought out program that can be utilized across the curriculum. The acronym smart summarizes the range of aspects incorported into this site.
Reading Tania Sheko’s post Whose job is it to teach responsible online behaviour is a great reflection of the complexity of cybersafety education. Her comments about the difficulty of tackling this issue with secondary aged students and the confusing issues of whose responsibility it is to purse education with this cohort is interesting. Apart from that I am very inspired by the fact that Tania is a graduate from the 2008 Web 2.0 program run by SLAV!
Apart from learning much over the last few hours spent exploring these sites, I am pleased that I’ve utlized this blog to take notes and bookmark links. I know that in a few weeks or months it will be great to be able to revisit some of these sites.
Thankyou for your generous comments on my post. I’ve just been reading your blog posts which are very interesting and I’m sure you’ll enjoy reading backwards once you’re done or even further down the track when you’ve adopted lots of these new things as second skin.
I must say that when I did the SLAV Web 2.0 course it was much more basic but still took up so much of my time – all worth it. People have told me that I spend too much time online, and it’s true, but I’m like a child in a lolly shop, wanting to taste everything. As far as keeping up with the course, I don’t think you could, but it’s all there for future reference. We’ll never be able to keep up with the flood of stuff out there, but trying out things and looking at a couple in depth is what I’ve found works for me. It is hard with work and family demands but I’ve stopped watching tv without a laptop on my lap because I find it boring watching one prescribed show when I could be exploring many things. I recommend Google Reader which is clunky but still houses blogs you find and don’t want to lose. I don’t like updates clogging up my email, I’d rather go to Google Reader and choose what I read. Recently I found I could easily download FeedSquares which is a much nicer presentation of Google Reader accounts.
Sorry for the rave, just wanted to say you’re doing brilliantly. I’m Tania Sheko on Facebook and @taniatorikova on Twitter (if you end up going there)
Tania has an excellent blog and is a great one to subscribe to.
There are so many cybersafety tools to view, so just select a few that you think will resonate with staff and students and stick with them. One PLN participant had the idea for students to make a video on the topic to share with the school. Thanks for the new links I hadn’t seen!
SMART is good. Thanks!
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