1. Protecting our students on theWorld Wide Web By:Elissa Malespina CHS Librarian

2. Agenda

Potential Dangers

Predators

Cyberbullying

MySpace

What to do

3. 4. Potential Dangers HOW SAFE ARE THEY? 5. Cell Phone Dangers

Text Messaging difficult to monitor, can not tell who is doing the texting.

Camera & Video on cell phone taking inappropriate pictures, invasion of privacy, rapid and easy transfer of picture/video.

Using cell phones to cheat on tests.

6.

IM Dangers

No age verification

Can use webcam /voice/ and transfer files

No body language cues to help kids see how a person feels/reacts to what is said.

AOL, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN live - all instant messaging sites.

7. Chat Room Dangers

Chat = conference call

Many people in a room at once

Usually thematic

No age verification

Predators lurk in chat sites

Would you stand in a mall, spin around and say who wants to talk with me? 8. 9. X Box Live

Live chat among Xbox users

Voice synthesizer feature makes it hard to know who you are talking to

Predators use it to make contact

Difficult for law enforcement to trace.

10. PREDATORS(In their own words) 11. Behavioral Traits of Predators

Generally more intelligent than other criminals: Doctor, Engineers, Lawyers, College Professors.

Often meek & mild

Need driven behavior (cant help themselves)

Master manipulators

Passive-Aggressive Personality

Almost always male

12. Victims have self-esteem issues 13. 14. Cyberbullying

Definition:

Sending or posting threatening or harassing text or images using the Internet or other digital communication devices.

Modes of cyberbullying:

email, websites, blogs, IM, chat rooms, cell phone.

15. Cyberbullying three parts

Bullies : Those who harass & demean

others, especially those they think are

different inferior.

Victims: Those who get bullied.

Bystanders : Those who encourage &

support the bully, or watch the bullying from

the sidelines and do nothing to help.

16. Forms of Cyberbullying

Flaming Online fights using electronic messaging

Harassment repeatedly sending messages

Dissing sending/posting gossip

Impersonation being someone else

Outing sharing secrets or embarrassing info/ images

Exclusion intentionally & cruelly excluding others

17. Problems with the laws

Right now the laws are set up in such a way that cyberbullying is considered harassment .

Police can not get a cant really get involved.

18.

13 year old from Vermont committed suicide

After being bullied at school he turned to the Internet where he met other suicidal teens

Parents helped to create new laws on bullying in Vermont

www.ryanpatrickhalligan.com 19. PRIVATE 20. 21.

• What

• should a

• parent / teacher do?

22. Classroom Protocol

If something happens on one of the computers in the classroom/lab

DO NOT TOUCH IT! DO NOT TURN IT OFF, DO NOT LET ANYONE TOUCH IT.

Call the deans / who may contact police.

23. Get Informed

Google yourself

Create a Myspace Page (do not put anything on it)

Talk with your students about internet safety

24. Helpful Websites

FBI Cyber crimes submit a crime tip

http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/cyberhome.htm

New Jersey State Police Cyber Crimes Unit

http://www.state.nj.us/njsp/divorg/invest/cyber-crimes-unit.html

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children CyberTipline (the 911 of the Internet)

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2936

NetSmartz411 Internet Safety Help Desk

http://www.netsmartz411.org/

25. QUESTIONS