Online Safety

Janetta GartonTechnology Curriculum DirectorWillard R-II School Districthttp://www.willard.k12.mo.us/co/tech/safety.htm

District PolicyPolicy that must be signed by students, parents, and staff prior to gaining access to the school’s network and the Internet. Unfortunately, to be legally binding, these policies often are written in a language unfamiliar to students. It is important to discuss this policy with your students in terms they can understand.

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Access to Inappropriate ContentWe do have a district filter. This software is used to strain out inappropriate sites. However, you cannot depend solely on this filter to insure that your students are visiting only appropriate web sites.

Inappropriate content could be:hate sites sites that promote delinquency (weapons, drugs, fake ids, explosives)pornography sitesgambling sites

Gates to Inappropriate Contentadvertisements: click the blinking bannersearching: inappropriate sites appear in the search resultstypo squatting: a site’s url uses a misspelling of an appropriate sites (funbrain.com & funbrian.com) or slight variation (whitehouse.gov & whitehouse.com) spam messagesImage Credit: Kintana by Matt & Helen Hamm

Internet Offenders manipulate young people into criminal sexual relationships by appealing to young people’s desire to be appreciated, understood, take risks, and find out about sex.

Predators will:use chat roomslook at profiles targeting kids who are looking for attention, don’t have much attention from parent’s at home, and parents that aren’t too tech savytry to get as much personal information as possiblesend an invitation to a private chatwant to move on to email and phonework toward a face to face meetingestablish a common ground by pretending to like the same things (music, movies, hobbies, sports, etc)work to build trust by showing interest in everything discussed in chat, agreeing always with child’s opinions and viewpointsmay pose as a sponsor to recruit individuals for a competition, event, club, etcdiscourage discussing this relationship with anyonestart introducing sexual content

Signs that may a child be involved with predator:watch for diminished communication about what they are doing onlineminimizing of screen when you approach unexplained phone calls or absences

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Cyberbullying use of technology to spread rumors and gossip post pictures of someone without their consent steal passwords to assume someone else’s identity disseminate private information and threaten or harass with offensive language

Cyberthreats threats or “distressing material” statements that make it sound like the writer is emotionally upset and may be considering harming someone else, or him/herself.

Schools place restrictions on student speech that appears to be sponsored by the school, or that is necessary to maintain an appropriate school climate. This applies to student speech through the district Internet system or via cell phones used at school. For online speech posted when off-campus, there must be a substantial and material threat of disruption on campus.

Law enforcement officials should be contacted when the situation involves: Making threats of violence to people or their property.Engaging in coercion obscene or harassing calls/messagesHarassment or stalking.Hate or bias crimesCreating or sending sexually explicit images Sexual exploitation.Taking a photo of someone in place where privacy is expected (like a locker room) Addressing Cyber Bullying and ThreatsSafe School Committee Needs AssessmentPolicy & PracticeProfessional DevelopmentParent/Community EducationStudent EducationSee the 2 flowcharts in the handout: Cyberbullying or Cyberthreat Situation Review Process & School Actions and Options

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Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind such as: musical, literary, and artistic work; inventions; and symbols, names, images, and designs. The holder of this property has certain exclusive rights, copyright, which is automatic upon creation. Just because something is online doesn’t mean it’s legal to copy, download, or use.

Piracy Piracy is the unauthorized use of material which is covered by copyright lawPiracy causes economic harm to the copyright holders.

Plagiarism Copying and pasting text from on-lineTranscribing text Using photographs, video or audio without permission or acknowledgment Using another person's work and claiming it as your own, even with permission  Acquiring work from commercial sourcesTranslation from one language to another Using an essay that you wrote for another class/another purpose without getting permission from the teacher/professor of both the current class and the class for which the original work was used

Peer to Peer Networkuses connectivity and the cumulative bandwidth of participants in a network, as opposed to servers providing the service. Some illegally distribute copyrighted materials. Virus, spyware, and pornography are also available Often these files are labeled so as to attract students to download them. Users of the site can be held accountable for copyright infringement.

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Malicious code software created to cause damage, steal information, or use up resources on a computer or a network.

Virusesprograms that alter the way a computer operates without the permission or knowledge of the user. can impair and seriously damage your computer (or network server) by executing random text, audio and video messages; draining memory; deleting files; corrupting programs; erasing the contents of your hard disk.

Wormsreplicate themselves without the use a host file. can overload networks and shut down communication

Trojan Horses imposter files that claim to be something desirableto spread, you must open email attachment or a downloaded file

Spyware hide on your computer to steal information such as credit card numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and surfing habitsmajority of it is adware, designed to capture “anonymous” data for targeted advertising. usually just an annoyanceoften bundled in other software that you install, but can also be acquired by simply accessing a webpage.

Signs of SpywareYou receive more pop-ups than usual.Your computer runs slowly.Icons appear on your desktop or task bar.Your default browser is changed. Spyware hide on your computer to steal information such as credit card numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and surfing habitsmajority of it is adware, designed to capture “anonymous” data for targeted advertising. usually just an annoyanceoften bundled in other software that you install, but can also be acquired by simply accessing a webpage.

Signs of SpywareYou receive more pop-ups than usual.Your computer runs slowly.Icons appear on your desktop or task bar.Your default browser is changed.You hear your hard drive running even when you are not using the computer.

Firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-spyware software address these issues. Keeping your operating system and other software up-to-date, and setting your browser’s security settings to medium or higher is important.

You hear your hard drive running even when you are not using the computer.

Firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-spyware software address these issues. Keeping your operating system and other software up-to-date, and setting your browser’s security settings to medium or higher is important.

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Identity Theft theft of personal identifying information (name, address, credit card number, social security number) and use of that data to open new charge accounts, order merchandise, or borrow money.

Phishingseemingly credible e-mail/text message/popup that Instructs the user to visit a Web site where they are prompted to enter or update their personal information May say your account has come under review, may be in danger of being suspended and/or cancelled, and some piece of information needs to be verified or updated. often contain spelling or grammar errors.Contact your merchant right away to ask for clarification

Spoofingappears to have been sent from one source when it actually was sent from another Any replies go legitimate e-mail account, not the real sender. Legitimate user can find their Inbox bombarded with viruses, bounced e-mail, and in some cases can have their account suspended for violating its anti-spam policy. Send a copy of the spoofed e-mail to the spoofed e-mail sender's ISP.

Spammingunsolicited or undesired bulk messages district has a spam filter ePALs there is a spam control setting that teachers can calibrate Willard Tiger Webmail has a Spam filter that you can activiate

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