What is grooming?

Grooming is a word used to describe how people who want to sexually harm children and young people get close to them, and often their families, and gain their trust. 

Online grooming may occur by people forming relationships with children and pretending to be their friend. 

It is easy for ‘groomers’ to find child victims online. They generally use chatrooms which are focussed around young people’s interests. They often pretend to be younger and may even change their gender. Many give a false physical description of themselves which may bear no resemblance to their real appearance – some send pictures of other people, pretending that it is them. 

Information taken from: http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/online_grooming.htm

Posters and comics

The last two weeks the students have been working on posters using the app canva, these posters are going to be used to decorate the corridors in our school. Here are some examples:

When they finished the posters, they started working with comics, they're using this tool to keep learning about cyberbullying. 

Creative common searcher

If we don't want to take risks and use content with creative commons we can use its searcher:

https://search.creativecommons.org/

Two interesting websites that can help us to use internet safety.

1. NetSmartz

NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. 

http://www.netsmartz.org/InternetSafety

2. Safety Land

Safetyland is a website where you can learn though playing a game. 

http://www.att.com/Common/images/safety/game.html

One of my students asked me about how to protect your own pictures

Consejos para proteger tus fotografías

Una vez que compartes una fotografía en Internet, es casi imposible evitar que sea utilizada sin tu consentimiento. Si le es imposible a una productora de Hollywood evitar que una película se pueda descargar gratis por Internet, imagínate lo difícil que será para ti evitar que alguien use tus fotos sin permiso.

Lo que si puedes hacer y no te requerirá de mucho esfuerzo es poner ciertas trabas para, a que la persona que quiera utilizar tus fotos sin tu permiso, le resulte un poco más difícil hacerlo.

1. Regístralas: Si bien todo este tipo de trámites pueden parecerte algo engorrosos, puedes realizarlos sin moverte de tu ordenador y de manera gratuita. Puedes registrar tus fotografías mediante el servicio “Safe Creative” (gratuito) o bien puedes firmar digitalmente tus fotografías. Con solo realizar una búsqueda encontraras empresas que se encargan de firmar digitalmente documentos, fotografías, etc.
2. Utilizar sitios de confianza: comparte tus fotografías en sitios que te permitan configurar el nivel seguridad de las licencias, los permisos para descargarlas, restricción de tamaños, etc. Cuantos mayores controles puedas configurar mayor control tendrás sobre tus fotografías. En el Blog del Fotógrafo recomendamos Flickr.
3. Firma clara y legible: utiliza tu nombre como marca personal de modo que cualquiera que vea una firma tuya, sabrá claramente quien fue el autor de la fotografía. Debe ser clara, legible y sencilla de modo de no crear confusiones acerca de quien fue su autor. También puedes incluir un correo de contacto junto con tu firma para que puedan solicitar tu permiso.

Información obtenida del siguiente enlace:

http://www.blogdelfotografo.com/proteger-fotos-internet-derechos-licencias-contratos/

The next topic we are goint to talk about is a serious one: cyberbullying

What is cyberbullying? 

Creating a poster with Canva

My students are making a poster with Canva where they need to write at least 6 tips to use internet safely. When you finish your posters i want you to upload them to your blogs.

A guide to use Canva:

Let`s keep working oN digital identity

Internet Safety

Con internet no me la juego. Nice Rap

Hi guys!

I hope you like this rap!

What is the online identity? How can we protect it?

Internet identity is a social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites. It can also be considered as an actively constructed presentation of oneself.






How can you protect your online identity?

Use internet safely

Download this interesting guide, since we are going to work on it the next classes:

Internet guide