SID Holiday Activity Page

Online and Offline Communication

Online communication is used in email, forums, blogs or text

Offline communication is usually face-to-face in person or on video call, webcam.

  • discuss offline and online communication and which was Easiest, Accurate information passed on and which was better to express emotions….
  • Which conversation do you think is safer to trust?
  • Which communication can you tell what people mean because you hear their tone of voice?
  • Can you tell they are joking or being serious?
  • Is the person telling the truth – can you see their face
  • What age is the person you are talking too?

Digital Communication Tools/Websites

Here are a list of some digital communication tools and websites – see if you can think of anymore and how we use them to communicate.  If you have an account, you can spend a short time showing your account and how it works

  • IPhone – email, internet, messages, instant messaging, chat, forum, blog, video chat
  • Laptop and webcam - internet, video conferencing
  • Skype – video conferencing
  • Facebook – messages, chat, forums, email, blog (unavailable at school)
  • Twitter – blog, messages, email (unavailable at school)
  • Google – GMAIL – email, chat, instant messages and Google+

I’m sure you know plenty more like MySpace, Friends Reunited, bebo….. and now mobile phone APPS can be used to make this communication even more accessable.

All this communcation can be fantastic.  You can now talk to family members away from home, when possible, even in a war zone!  Video conferencing can be used not only to catch up, see them grow up but also when you don’t know where “this cable goes?”  Always remember to THINK BEFORE YOU POST.  You may not be able to take those words or pictures off the internet and once someone else has them, who knows what they can do with them.  Remember, if you wouldn’t be happy for your parent/carer to see that picture or movie or hear you say those words – DON”T DO IT

JARGON

People sending unkind or nasty messages – Cyber-bullying

People logging onto a site pretending to be you (e.g. to steal or change your information) – Identity Fraud

A message trying to sell you products or persuade you to visit their website – Spam

A nasty program that can damage your computer and files on it – Virus

Parental Control – we try and teach the children how and why to stay safe, but even at school we have filters.  These filters are not 100% but help.  if you would like more links to Parental Control sites, click HERE

“Go On, make online easy” is a lovely website to start your surfing on…. Go On, give IT a go ! click HERE

Spend ten minutes talking about ways to stay safe on line - here are some of my ideas…

UPDATE – How to update your privacy settings on your FACEBOOK timeline - and must do privacy tweaks (help from PC World)

Congratulations Click HERE

 ONE LAST QUESTION….

•Do you make sure you log off correctly at school or at home?
•It may not matter to you too much here at Middle School, but when all your course work for your GCSEs has been maliciously deleted by someone because you didn’t log off correctly, I’m sure you will then realise how important E-safety is, and why we teach E-safety in the curriculum year, after year, after year !

Or maybe now you will remember?

 takE-CARE                             -                                       Mrs Wilkinson