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CPF FRENCH INTERNET ADDRESS LIST
0530-3. Internet Safety - Notes for Pre-teens and Teens
Notes for pre-teens and teens
- When using ICQ
where you get an ICQ number so others will know when you are online, be aware
that it identifies you to everyone on the Internet, including people whose
intentions are to take advantage of you in a harmful way. There are other
instant messengers like ICQ available, such as MSN, AOL's Instant Messenger
and Yahoo!
(See Section 400 Internet Chat
for more information, also see CPF's Section 405 Internet Forums
)
- If you use ICQ, be sure the
identifying information is minimal. As of July 2001 there will be instructions
at
http://www.cyberbreach.com/ as
to how to set up ICQ in a safer manner.
- there is a risk your private chat group is being monitored by a person whose intention is to take advantage of you in a harmful way.
- In chat rooms, it is safer to use an annonymous e-mail address from a service like http://www.hotmail.com
- If you create web pages, check the software you are using does not have personal information to add into the html code for author of the page. For example in Netscape, you can look at view source and see what your software has put for author. In Netscape Composer for web page making, the author can be changed in edit preferences.
- Some students use free web services like http://www.freevote.com to set up voting booths about fellow students. If you find the voting issue offensive, usually there is an option on the voting booth page to request the voting booth be removed.
- Some students set up a web site (or page) about fellow students using a free web hosting service. If you have a problem with the content of the web site, usually the free web hosting service has an agreement with the person using their service regarding acceptable content, and there is an option for you to request the web site be removed.
- Some free web hosting services encourage students to set up their own personal web pages using a format where they are encouraged to name their school, grade and classmates. Providing this much information poses a safety risk for the student and their classmates. In Section 0530-1 Internet Safety Guidelines the advice is 'If a child's work is to be posted by class on the school web site only put the initials (first and last), do not put the first and/or last name.'
- a good rule of thumb is, if you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all. In the olden days before the Internet, a student might make a mistake and write something not nice about someone on a piece of paper that got passed around a classroom and usually at the end of the day the paper wound up crumpled in the garbage. In the Internet age, students sometimes make the mistake of sending an e-mail with something not nice about someone. Once an e-mail is sent you lose control of it and it can be passed around very widely for a very long time. The e-mail mostly makes the writer look bad. The writer may find the e-mail comes back to haunt them. So, do not send unkind e-mails.
- as with threatening phone calls, there are ways to trace the source of threatening e-mails.
- note that many schools have Student User Registration Policies for the Internet.
- http://www.deal.org
http://www.choix.org/
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's National Youth Strategy has evolved considerably
from the original basic goals of reducing youth crime and victimization.
One of the strategy's initiatives, deal.org (Delivering Education and Awareness
for Life), has grown well beyond its original focus, when it was created
in 1998, of fostering drug awareness among Canadian youth. It has evolved
into a comprehensive Internet resource, including pages for parents and teachers.
Deal.org aims to empower youth by providing an interactive forum to communicate,
research and express ideas. Young people from across Canada and around the
world can connect to one another, tell the world what they're doing and get
involved in their own communities. The French version of deal.org is choix.org
Deal.org's Cyber Safety section is at http://www.deal.org/_e/pt/cybersafety.html
Le Sécurité dans le cyberespace de choix.org ce trouve à
http://www.deal.org/_f/pt/cybersafety.html
Of particular interest to students:
http://www.deal.org/_e/pt/tips.html
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