Safety and Netiquette Lesson
Activity 1
Welcome to ThinkQuest, an online learning community of students and teachers from around the world. As new members of this community, we're going to review and discuss how to behave in the web community. Just like there are rules and guidelines wherever we go, there are rules and guidelines when we visit the web. Let's start with why we need guidelines and rules. Take a look at the three pictures below and be prepared to answer the following questions:
- What do these pictures mean?
- How are they useful?
- Why do we have rules?
- What kinds of rules do we have? At home? At school? In our community?
- How do rules and guidelines help us?
- How are rules enforced?
Activity 2 - The Web makes us all neighbors.
The web creates an online community where we're all neighbors. How should we treat our neighbors? How would we like our neighbors to treat us? Share your ideas about ways we should treat our "web neighbors."
Safety and Netiquette PowerPoint
View this show for some ideas to get you thinking about being safe and kind on the internet.
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What should you do if...
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Someone sends you a sticky that makes you feel uncomfortable?
- Someone uses inappropriate language?
- Someone says something that's meant to hurt you or someone else's feelings?
- Someone asks for your password?
- Someone you don't know asks a lot of private questions?
- Someone wants to meet you in person?
- Someone tells you it's okay to "borrow" someone else's writings or pictures?