Parent Engagement

How to responsibly manage your family’s online identity

Cornell Village Public School

Agenda

•Computer management and security

•Web cams

•Social Networking

•Online Gaming

•Classroom Applications

•Help your child learn with technology

Computer Management and Security

What are the threats?

•virus: a program capable of reproducing itself and usually is capable of causing harm to files, programs or your whole computer

•includes email viruses, Trojan horses, worms

•spyware: programs that spy on what you do on your computer, and may report back certain pre-specified information to an outside source

Computer Management and Security

What can I do?

•keep yourself protected: have current anti-virus software, firewall and operating system updates - automatically is best

•hints for keeping yourself secure: http://bit.ly/dEzsIy

Computer Management and Security

What can I do?

•encryption: WEP and WPA

•WEP is older, breakable by someone who really wants to

•WPA is newer, not perfect; its strength depends on the passcode used

•hiding your network

•registering your MAC addresses

Computer Management and Security

What about webcams?

•Trojan Horses and other types of malware can remotely turn on your webcam or microphone without you even knowing http://bit.ly/fzZ42g http://bit.ly/hHIrLx

Computer Management and Security

Physical placement and other considerations

•be aware of what your kids are doing: http://bit.ly/gecsV5 and http://bit.ly/dVeKvp

•interact with them

•passwords and privacy

•file-sharing sites [torrent, etc.]

Social NetworkingA brave new world?

Social Networking

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Social NetworkingWhat should I be aware of?

•minimum ages, multiple sites, privacy settings http://bit.ly/9lLwA6

•saving MSN chats http://bit.ly/dIrTKA

•just be aware - Who is seeing it? What are the implications today, tomorrow, in ten years? [kids don’t necessarily think of this]

•the “Markville” or “Grandmother” test

Online GamingWhat should I be aware of?

•not just World of Warcraft and Call of Duty; many kids games too [Webkinz]

•often a chat component

•pressure to be in the game a lot: team expectations

•Same as social networking: be aware

Classroom Applications

What’s going on in school?

•Web 2.0 tools [wikis, blogs, Prezi, Glogster]

•digital storytelling [MovieMaker, Photostory, iMovie, Bitstrips, Comic Life...]

•Smart Notebook, document cameras

•moving towards cameras, smartphones, iPods, and blogging, Twitter - when and if appropriate

Journeying Together

•Knowledge vs. wisdom: filter

•It’s an ongoing discussion

•Involves the child, parent, school

•Get involved, learn beside each other

•Ask the right questions

Journeying Together

•Why should he/she be doing this?

•Is my child ready for this? How about me?

•What parameters have I set up?

•What are the implications?

•How will we move forward?

•What are the pros and cons?

•What is our exit strategy?

Jason EygenraamComputer Resource Teacher

YRDSBElementary, East

2011