Safety and Responsibility

Online

Shashauna Watson

Introduction

• Digital citizenship

• Safety on the computer

• Safety on the Internet

• Netiquette

• Copyright and Fair Use

• Plagiarism

• Reference

Ask yourself these questions

• How safe am I online?

• What information do I give online?

• Do I really know my online friends?

Become a Digital Citizen

• What is Digital Citizen

• Is the rule of appropriate, responsible technology use.

• How you act when you are online

Respect, Educate and Protect (REPs)

• Respect yourself and Respect others• Etiquette, access, law

• Educate yourself and connect with others• Communicate, literacy and commerce

• Protect yourself and Protect others• Rights and responsibility, safety(security),

and health and welfare

Safety on the Computer

• Protect your identity

• Protect your computer and stay up to date with software

• Protect your accounts and don’t choose obvious password.

• Never use bad language or send mean messages online.

• People online are not always who they say they are.

• Report harassing harassing or inappropriate behaviors.

• Do not open emails or attachments from unknown.

• Do not send pictures of yourself to strangers.

Internet Safety Rules

• Never give personal information

• Do not meet in person someone you met online

• Do not give password to anyone

• Use a non-gender specific name

• Do not links or files from

people you do not know

• Never respond to email with inappropriate materials

• Think before you post• Respect other people online

• Be careful when meeting online friends in person

• Protect yourself online

Netiquette

• What is netiquette?• A guide to online communication

• Do not write in all caps• IT IS LIKE YOU ARE SHOUTING AT THEM

• Use common abbreviation to shorten messages• For example: btw- by the way

Netiquette

• Be specific, clear and precise. Avoid a lengthy text

• Be careful what you post online as a status or a comment. It can be copy an spread around.

• Be sure that the

subject of the email describe the body o the email

• Read before you ask

• Think before you send a email. You can never truly delete them. They are saved on a mail server.

Copyright and Fair use

• What is Copyright?• in law, the right, belonging exclusively to the

author or his assignees to sell or produce multiple copies of work, literature or work that conveys information or ideas.

• To give the author who create the work and economic incentive o create new works

• Anything tangible can be copyrighted

Fair Use

• Fair use is the most significant limitation on the copyright holder’s exclusive rights

• Individuals who wants to use copyrighted work must weigh three factors• Is the new work a copy of the original?

• Is the new work about and beyond the original?

• Is the use for educational or nonprofit purposes?

Plagiarism

• Are you using ones ideas, thoughts with consent or authorization?

• Are you taking someone work and assuming it to be your own?

• If your answers to the above questions are yes then you are plagiarizing. This is an act that is punishable by law and one should take great care in giving reference/credits to the rightful owner of any work or thoughts being used.

Reference

Ribble, M. (2013, September 08). Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship. Retrieved from Digital

Citizenship using Technology Appropriately: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Copyright. (2013, September 7). In Wikisource, . Retrieved 01:48, September 8,

2013, from http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/

Copyright&oldid=4577798

University of Maryland University College. (2011, January 28). Copyright and Fair Use in

the UMUC Online or Face-to-Face Classroom. Retrieved from University Of Maryland

University College: http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/ copyright.cfm