Managing+Digital+Identities

Hey guys, I had an idea of a sorta wow factor that we could relate to the kids identity theft articles I found. What if we asked the class for samples of information that social websites ask for to create this digital identity,then ill look up what information theves need to steal someones identity, and then we can explain from there the impportence of managing a childs digital identity. Its just an idea, let me know what everyone thinks. -chris Hey everyone just curious what we were doing for tomorrow? -Dave

Hey guys, what time and where are we meeting tomorow i think we discussed it tuesday but i dont remember. -Chris

Group- I found an interesting resource that’s titled “Ideas for Integrating Internet Safety Into the Curriculum.” It shows how we, as teachers, can help make our students aware of the risks //while// carrying out our normal lesson. I’ve noticed a lot of people stating their opinions that “there should be classes/seminars/assemblies on internet safety for students”…etc etc. Those sound like good ideas, but I like that this resource gives practical ways to get the same message across while still teaching the subject matter. Integration is key, and I think it helps students with applying safety tips to their own research and internet activity in school.

Here’s the link… []

Joanna

Thanks Dave,

Good articles, I reviewed three of them and we can discuss more tomorrow. For everyone else, please think about possible artifacts we can discuss more tomorrow. thanks again. -Carl

Hey guys, Here are some resources I found that might be useful for our artifact and/or topic.

http://www.atg.wa.gov/InternetSafety/FamiliesAndEducators.aspx#School

http://www.isafe.org - I-SAFE has formed a collaborative partnership, with high profile companies, to implement the first Internet Safety Education Program throughout school districts nationwide.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide - Lists sites on the Internet that would be useful for enhancing curriculum. Also contains lesson plans.

http://www.netsmartz.org/Educators - Activities, Lessons, and fun animations that teachers can use.

http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/ - A free K-8 curriculum empowering students to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively.

-Dave

Hi Chris, I would think focusing on the student aspect would be better, but if you find a good article dealing with a teacher, I would print it out for us to take a look at tomorrow. We are still meeting at 11am tomorrow in the Stayer lobby. Thanks Carl

Hey guys, I have been out of town all weekend in Radford Virginia and just got on here today to check at the progress. I just had a quick question, im looking up examples of identity theft through social networks, should I concentrate on just students identities being stolen or adults as well becuase of teachers and administration who are on a schools network? -Chris

Hey to the group, I just posted the info I received from my brother in law. Please review it and let me know any questions you have by tomorrow by 6pm so I can get clarity for us. Also We need to make sure we find some articles of relevance and make sure we are thinking of what our artifact will be. Please post articles, ideas or questions here so we can get moving on this. We have 3 days to put this together. Thanks to all -Carl

Hi all, I met with my brother in law who is one of the IT coordinators for Manheim Township School District for about 30 minutes. Here are some of the main points from our conversation. **__Let me know what questions you have so I can get clarification from him tomorrow evening.__** __Main concerns they have __ – 1) Kids getting to adult content, 2) teachers or administration getting to adult content, 3) protecting the districts assets (student info, confidential info). Legal issues that arise if someone does access adult sites or student info is leaked or hacked. Ways to protect students info and the school information - #1 Filters – the filter is the same across the board for teachers and students. Teachers can get additional password to be able to override certain banned sites, (the filtering is a tiered system so certain “next level” sites can be viewed by teachers if they are granted the additional passwords). The filter is a 3rd party system called Lightspeed. It checks against restricted sites decided on by the district as well as adult sites already in the Lightspeed software. Manheim Township school district (MTSD) does not set up email accounts for students as a way of protecting the students and the security of the school network and information. It also blocks any type of outside email accounts (gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, etc…). A major issue for the district if there are availability of emails is maintaining the mail servers and cyber-bullying. Some schools get gmail accounts through a Google domain. This is an advantage for IT because they do not need to administer it, its Google’s responsibility. The school still monitors it, but the protections and filters are Google’s responsibility. Other protections are Internal policies like an annual data policy that needs to be signed by all teachers that states they will protect students info, policy 815 that states the internet will be used for educational purposes only. Breaking these policies can lead to termination and prosecution. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">The __second__ concern is how they are going to deal with Facebook. They agree that they need to figure something out because of its prevalence, but not sure how they will manage access, content, or usage. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Third __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> concern is smart phones. Kids using smart phones and the 3G network, nothing schools can do about it or filter it, but still have concerns about inappropriate activities done by kids while in school. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">- Carl
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Social networks __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> are also blocked for students and teachers. Main reason is productivity issues for both groups, as well as the monitoring and cyber-bullying aspects. It is also to protect students from outside sources through the networking sites. The monitoring and filtering of outside sites, social networking and others is a protection of students as well as following federal guidelines. The Federal gov’t has tied filtering activities to federal money to districts. If a district is found out to not be doing a proper job on filtering and protecting students through cyber networks, the school district can lose federal funds. (Children online protection).
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Jump/ thumb drives __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> – School allows them but since work can travel from home to school and the opposite way, each workstation, the mail server and the file servers all need virus protection. There is really nothing the district can do to stop the use of thumb drives.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Three major concerns that IT has __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> – __First__, secured sites can not be blocked by the IT dept (Https). The IT dept can see that it was accessed through their logs, but **__cannot__** stop it from happening due to encryption issues.

Dave, That does make sense. We can discuss more about that on Tuesday. I will be putting together my information from my brother in law soon. I had a connectivity issue this weekend at my Aunt's house at the beach. I'm typing up the highlights after this and will past them in a little bit. Thanks to all and I hope you had a good weekend. - Carl

Group Work

I know we talked about facebook with our project but I think we should avoid it since another group is "Facebook/Twitter Nation – Do we share too much?". -Dave

- This is the website i presented to our group. It has some lesson plans already outlined that are availible for classroom use [] -Ashley

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Outline: Group please help expand upon this :)

Essential Question: How do we protect our students?

Teacher Concerns: 1) Examples to start "wow factor" 2) IT at Manheim Township a) what the school worries about the most b) potential problems the school sees going foward 3) Example of handbook or student online procedure document Student Issues: 1) Stories of Student endangerment a) Gaming headsets b) Classroom internet resources 2) Don't Put this online and why? a) real life examples that can be used in the classroom to educate students 3) Educate to Protect a) Why it is our job to educate students on proper online identity management Resources for Educators: 1) cybersmartcurriculum.org a) lesson plans b) grade specific c) professional development 2) isafe.com

i also found this [] which is a handout that is targeted at grades 9-12 specifically about online identies, we could use this is many ways. The more i look at cybersmart the cooler it gets!

Going off of the outline...I saw the "education to protect" and I thought that we better have some practical examples of that. So, these are a few thoughts that I had in relation to //educating// our students about protecting themselves on the internet. Feel free to add any other thoughts you have to the list, this was just my brainstorming. Joanna

__**Practical Guidance for Teachers**__ - Avoid using students’ actual names when interacting with them on websites or when they are creating usernames (some schools develop a “nick-name” system, some use ID numbers, etc) - Do not post students’ work on the web without their permission - Do not post pictures of students on the web without their permission - Remember that everything you or your students put on a classroom website is related to the school and //represents// the school. “Appropriate content” only.

__**How to help students…**__ - Inform students that “internet safety” is more than just avoiding identity theft…these are some risks:
 * PROPERTY/IDENTITY: protect from theft (ideas, property, identity)
 * REPUTATION AND LEGAL: protect from potential consequences for a lifetime…once it’s on the internet, it’s staying there.
 * PSYCHOLOGICAL: protect from cyber bullying, harassment, exposure to adult content, or other emotional stressors.
 * PHYSICAL: protect from harm or predators.

- WARNING. . ..
 * Information they put on the internet can be PERMANENT. Be responsible.
 * They don’t know WHO is seeing it.
 * People can COPY and paste the information they post.

- TELL KIDS TO TALK TO ADULTS WHEN THEY ENCOUNTER SOMETHING CONCERNING OR STRANGE ON THE INTERNET.

Don’t put up a fence around the water, kids will only find a way in. Instead be //proactive// and TEACH KIDS TO SWIM. (Don’t try to simply put up controls “blocking” kids from getting into stuff on the internet, TEACH them the dangers and proactively give them tools to protect themselves.)
 * Analogy about swimming pool and kids:

http://www.safekids.com/ **__ Dave’s Outline __**


 * 1) I have a technology usage policy for Elizabethtown school district. Let me know how many copies you guys want of it.
 * 2) Artifact
 * 3) I thought we could do a pop quiz lesson with the class I pulled off of cybersmartcurriculum.org. Here is the link: [|http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/safetysecurity/lessons/9-12/making_good_decisions]
 * 4) After the quiz when we are reading off answer we can use that as a basis for class discussion
 * 5) Then we can go into showing them the actual cybersmart website and show them some of the cool resources that they have.
 * 6) After that if we have time we can show them isafe.com and how that could be useful.
 * 7) I feel like this will take up a decent amount of time with the quiz and discussion so we don’t need a lot of resources to show them for our artifact.

Please post any ideas you guys want to throw in for the artifact. Also Do we want to meet tomorrow before class? I feel like we should also have a complete outline and set plan by tonight and email it to everyone so we have it for class tomorrow. Just keep posting on here or send an email if you need to contact me right away my number is 717-669-8503 text or call.

Hi Dave,

I like your idea of the pop quiz to be interactive with the class. I would agree it would be a good tool for classroom discussion as well. I would think that if we got 20 copies of the e-town tech usage, that would be enough. We could put one or two per table for the tables to share and have extra's for us and if someone else wanted one. If it is really long or hard for you to print out, then maybe 15 copies. Thanks -Carl

If the group wants to meet at 7:30 tomorrow I could do that.. - Carl

The quiz idea sounds like it will be a good tool to get them thinking. Hopefully it will spark some of their own questions, and we will be able to address them as they come up. This seems like it'll be good for our time-frame. Carl, are you still planning on mentioning the Township interview? That will probably come up in conversation as we discuss the quiz, too. And, yea, 7:30 sounds good. Joanna

Hey group!!! I think we are doing pretty good. I can make it at 730, where are we going to meet? lobby(up down?) classroom or comp. lab? We need to decide who is presenting what points? I think as coheasive as possible is best, so if we have something to add while another person is speaking, i think we should be prepared to jump in or have someone jump in on us. As far as talking points, from the information we have gathered, this is how i see our lesson going... correct me if I am wrong or you want to do something else, or dont want to do what i have listed. Teacher Concerns: 1) Examples to start "wow factor" __//CHRIS//__ 2) IT at Manheim Township __// ﻿Carl //__ a) what the school worries about the most b) potential problems the school sees going foward 3) Example of handbook or student online procedure document ﻿//__DAVE__// Student Issues: 1) Stories of Student endangerment //__Ashley__// a) Gaming headsets 2) Don't Put this online and why? a) real life examples that can be used in the classroom to educate students//__ Chris __// 3) Educate to Protect __//Joanna//__ a) Why it is our job to educate students on proper online identity management Resources for Educators: 1) cybersmartcurriculum.org // ﻿Dave (Ashley, (i can help if you would like)) // a) lesson plans b) grade specific c) professional development

I hope this pattern will help things go smoothly, since we all should know all/most of the information, like i said, if the spirit moves you to jump in to add something, i do not think it would be a bad idea... I haven't seen chris on here posting as of yet, does anyone have his number to make sure he knows to meet us at 730? -Ashley