I have always been a firm believer of educating students about the implications of Internet Safety.  For this reason we don’t have any blocks on anything at school -but we have clear procedures in place should a child come across something inappropriate.  In the past 4 years I could count the number of incidents at our Intermediate School on one hand.  We are active educators though and I regularly have quick conversations with students about their behaviours online if I have come across something that I think they may not have thought of the implications of.

I listened to a speaker the other night who was focused primarily on preventing bullying – bullying through social media -whether text or Web 2.0 tools.  She showed these videos that I thought were just fantastic and also had a VERY clear message too.  I love the E-Mum clip especially and it just shows how easily it can be to represent yourself as someone else and still be very accepted into someone’s world (in a tongue in cheek way!!)

Check these out – they are well worth the couple of minutes of viewing time – and will provide quite a laugh too!!
Demetri Martin – Trendspotting

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