Safe – safety skills

If you are looking for new, engaging ideas for primary work on e-safety education then this may well be for you …

Safe is a new programme of practical activities to develop primary and elementary school children’s skills, self-confidence and safety awareness when using social network sites.

360 degree safe

360 degree safe is an e-safety self review tool from the South West Grid for Learning. This is what they say about it: The 360 degree safe online tool provides a user friendly and interactive means for schools to review their eSafety provision and to develop an action plan to bring about improvements. The tool is currently free of charge to schools on completion of a simple registration process.

CEOP IE8 Safety Button

If you are using Internet Explorer 8 you can download a browser button that connects straight to safety information for help, advice and reporting from CEOP.

New at ‘Thinkuknow’

There are now some new resources for 5 -7 year olds on the ‘Thinkuknow‘ site –  thanks to Twitter ‘alle11′ for this. This is what the site says for itself:

This 8 minute animation introduces Lee & Kim, a brother and sister navigating the online world with the help of their trusted superhero friend SID! With his super powers, SID shows them how to keep themselves safe while having fun online. Based around 4 simple tips for children to remember and a song, the cartoon aims to teach children how to protect themselves and others around them. As well as addressing grooming, the animation also focuses on digital citizenship highlighting the importance of treating each other well and behaving responsibly not only in the playground, but also online.

The Wild Web Woods

It may be a little dated now but could still be useful.

The Wild Web Woods is a game instituted by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Its purpose is for people/children to get to know and respect children’s rights and protect children from any kind of violence. The game is based on the Council’s ‘Internet Literacy’ handbook which has 21 fact sheets on important issues and contains lots of help for teachers and parents.

The Wild Web Woods comes in 22 European languages.

Safer Internet Day – 9 February 2010

Just to get you ready for this so that you can plan ahead. European Safer Internet Day (SID) is supported by countries throughout Europe and during the week, a range of activities will be taking place across the continent to help protect young people online. The theme for SID10 is ‘Think Before You Post’ and we hope to make the whole week (from Monday 8th February – Friday 12th February 2010) a week of action in the UK.

Visit www.thinkuknow.co.uk/saferinternetdayuk for more information.

The Cybernuts – Who wnts 2 no

Steve Beard spotted this (thanks Steve … ahead of the game as always) and it was passed to me by John Pallister via Twitter   … The Cybernuts – Who wnts 2 no

This is what they say for themselves:

Introduce children to the Cybernuts and make their digital adventures safer – and much more fun.

Free copies of Who wnts 2 no? are available for schools and libraries.
Order now to help promote internet safety.

Click here to download an A4 poster for your school newsletter.

More about the book

Dud thinks he’s found a foolproof way of getting rich quick. All he has to do is put his personal details online. What could possibly go wrong? Zip and Mouse aren’t convinced: they want to know, who wants to know? This book is for children aged 8 to 12 to help promote internet safety. It was created with  help from children in this age group and in collaboration with Childnet International.

“Literacy skills are absolutely vital in enabling children to fulfil their potential. As all reading counts in developing these life changing skills, it has never been so important to celebrate children’s reading online through initiatives such as Who wnts 2 no? The wider the variety of formats in which children read, the richer is their experience of reading.”

Jonathan Douglas, Director, National Literacy Trust

Who wnts 2 no? will be published on 5th March 2009 and copies will be available from then.

E-Safety Games

North West Learning Grid have put together some really good esafety  games that could well enhance and extend the messages of  the Safer Internet Day which is on 10th February 2009.

You can access the games from here.

ThinkUknow – Safer Internet Day 10th February 2009

The ThinkUknow Safer Internet Day is on 10th February -

CEOP’s Thinkuknow programme will be producing a pack of resources available for download. Please register if you’re interested in receiving information, guidance and the pack.
Mission:
To get your school involved! This is the perfect opportunity to introduce internet safety to students or to consolidate the teaching you have already implemented.
Method:
To mark European Safer Internet Day, your school can download a pack of resources including new KS2 and 3 assemblies. CEOP will be creating and signposting you to all the resources you need for SID 2009. We would also like to hear your plans for the week.

Thanks to Fiona Sanderson for the note of this.

Everything you want to know about eSafety

Thanks to Scotedublogs RSS Feeds for this ‘heads up’ on eSafety.

The National Education Network has produced an excellent round up of the many documents which talk about and support eSafety eduction.

This is what they say about their content matrix:

The National Education Network E-Safety Content Matrix is an interactive list of links to useful documents and websites relating to E-Safety. The Content Matrix also includes a list of Key Organisations involved in E-Safety.