Teachers Awareness to Online Safety

            There are many different things that occur online that can be deceiving to users and can also put them in dangerous situations. Looking at safety online as a whole is a very important aspect that should be taught to teens. This world is beginning to be more tech savvy and the use of technology is a dominant factor of everyday life for every age, especially the youth.

The three topics that were presented gave very valuable information on protecting oneself on the internet, and I was hoping to really hear about sexting and textual harassment. There are many stories about people being harassed on the internet and even the acts of child pornography that have been tracked through social media. In reality there are so many things that we do without actually realizing that our acts are illegal, even if we think there’s nothing wrong with what we are doing.

When teaching or expressing the importance of online safety with my students I believe that it is something that would need to be addressed right away. It’s a bit difficult to see several situations throughout each week of the school year that I would be having my students engage in online activities for Physical Education but I can try to make sure I really target important points in being safe. I’d probably organize a few meetings with the library to take a workshop on internet safety and I may send home letters to parents on the subject as well.

Using a different presentation tool was the highlight of this assignment, aside from finding out new information on a topic I was unfamiliar with. Creating the presentation on canva.com was somewhat exciting because of all the tools on the presentation that we were able to play with and create an eye catching presentation. Putting the presentation together happened very quickly which was also a positive to using that specific presentation tool and the only other online tool that was used was gmail and also being able to use a an online quiz generator.

I’d like to get into using more google documents to be able to work on the same file in real time. This is mainly because I’m still unfamiliar with it and I feel that once I really get the hang of using it, it will become a great asset to me in the future when it comes to collaborating with my colleagues.

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Ghosh, A and Tula, C. (2005, October) Phishing and Pharming dangers.” Retrieved from:http://www.crime-research.org/news/24.10.2005/1583/

There are many different things that occur online that can be deceiving to users and can also put