Digital Citizenship: Online Safety II

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In the previous post, we explored some concepts related to online safety and read Worried Jack's email to an agony aunt. In these activities, we're going to explore online safety a bit more.

1. Before watching the presentation, make sure you know the meaning of these expressions:

    go out with (somebody)        be in love with (somebody)

    go along with (somebody)    meet up with (somebody)

    take in    fake      read up on (somebody)     

    refuse     back away     yell for help     grab      let go     run away

    

You can look them up in the online dictionaries on your right.

What can you do to learn and remember these expressions?

2. Click on this link. Then, click on Part II: Amy and Jo.

3. As you watch Amy and Jo's case, think over these questions:

   a. Why did Amy fall in love with Jeff?

        What did he say/do to win her over?

   

   b. Why was Jo worried about Amy's attitude and behaviour?

   

   c. If you had been in Jo's shoes, would you have called Amy's mum?

       Why? What would you have done?

4. Read (or listen to) Part I: Worried Jack and watch Part II: Amy and Jo again. Do the online quiz (at the end of Part II: Amy and Jo). 

- How many statement did you get right?

- What have you learnt so far?

- What do you think about Worried Jack and Amy & Jo's cases?

5. Post a comment with your answers below.

Digital Citizenship: Online Safety I

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In these activities, we're going to talk about online safety or Internet safety.

1. Think over these questions. Jot down some notes; you'll need your notes afterwards.

- What do you know about online safety?
- Have you ever heard of...?

  Internet scams       malware              phishing           offensive content
  cyberstalking     cyberbullying    online predation (child/sexual grooming)

- How are these concepts related to online safety?

Now, you're going to read Worried Jack's email to an agony aunt.
In the email, you'll find these expressions:

    agony aunt       social networking site       share       arrange outings
    log onto/in (a website)          get into (an account) / get in         profile
    mobile number         hurtful things        call (somebody) names
    come up to (somebody)         hack into (an account)        cause havoc
    user ID        log off         take over       block       trust       harassment
    take action against (somebody)

2. Before reading the email, make sure you know all these expressions.
You can look them up in the online dictionaries on your right.
 What can you do to learn and remember these expressions?

3. Click on this link. Then click on Part I: Worried Jack.

4. As you read (or listen to) the email, find this information in the email:
    a. What does Worried Jack use the social networking site for?
    b. What was the matter with Worried Jack's account?
    c. How can Worried Jack's reputation be affected?

5. If you were the agony aunt, what would you suggest that Worried Jack should do?

6. Post a comment with your answers below.

Digital Citizenship: what kind of online relationships do you have?

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In this activity, we're going to talk about the kind of online relationships we establish.

- Have a close look at the photo above, what do you think the quote is about?

- Read Charlie Gilkey's quote (next to the photo) and check your answers.

- Have another close look at the photo and read the quote again.
  How does the photo help you understand the quote?

- What does he mean when he says,
 "we expose our inner selves but we hide our outer selves"?
- What kind of online relationship does he refer to?
- Is this bad/unhealthy/dangerous or good/healthy/safe?
- Why?

- Post a comment with your answer below.

Digital Citizenship: before you facebook, text, tweet or blog, THINK!

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In this activity, we're going to explore the concept of digital citizenship.

1. Think over these questions:

- What is digital citizenship?
- Are you a responsible digital citizen? Yes? No? Why?

2. Let's compare your answers to the information on this website:
Digital Citizenship

3. Let's play!

- Click on this link digizen.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
- When you finish, reflect upon this:
     What have you learnt?
     What did you like most? Why?
     What did you dislike most? Why?
     Is there anything else you'd like to say about this activity?

- Post a comment with your answer below.

A name for our blog

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In this activity, you're going to choose an appropriate name for our blog.

Before doing this activity, read all the instructions and make sure you understand what you have to do.

If you're in doubt, post a message on the wall (Google+ community). You'll get some help.

Are you ready?
Let's get started.

Instructions:

1. Read the blog description (the statement under the title of the blog).
2. Think of a name. The name must be relevant to the blog description.
3. Type in the name (in the AnswerGarden tool below).
4. Press the submit-button to add your name. The name will be published in the word cloud below.

Now, if you like one of the existing names in the word cloud, you can click on it. So you will skip step 4 above.



How shall we name our blog?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

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All in its name

This is just a short entry to say 'THANKS, Marta for your constructive negative feedback!'

Ms. Marta DeGennaro, a dear colleague who has her own place in cyberspace, pointed out that the name of this blog was sort of inconsistent with its aim and mission statement.

The previous name, 'The e-English Lesson', gave you the overall impression that this blog was designed to target a broader audience when in fact it's aimed at students at secondary school.

Anyway, though the new name is related to how students are expected to learn the language (by actively participating, collaborating and sharing with each other), it's still rather misleading. So I decided to leave the new name until the beginning of this school year (March 2013).

 

Maybe, I could get students involved in thinking of a more suitable name for this blog. I suppose they'll have lots of interesting ideas. Who knows?

Starting anew

Well, this is my second attempt at blogging. To tell you the truth, I had found it so hard to keep updating my first blog that I quit. As you might already know, blogging is really time consuming esp. for teachers working in Argentina. In Argentina, a teacher has to work at several schools in order to make the ends meet.

Anyway, this is officially my first post and I'd like to thank Prof. Stella Maris Saubidet Oyhamburu for her encouragement and support. Actually, I decided to revamp and relaunch this blog when I was sitting for a final exam in a course delivered by her. So, to those who think exams are always frightening assessment tools, I say: 'You're completely wrong!' Sometimes, they can be inspiring...