E-Safety resources for primary and secondary schools

E-Safety Resources

Here’s a list of some of the resources which I’ve found useful when creating inset material for schools, delivering presentations to pupils and parents and helping schools create policies and E-Safety reporting procedures, audits and curriculum materials. This list is being added to and amended frequently.

Recommended package for schools in UK KS1-KS4

• E-Safety support – comprehensive provision of curriculum materials, policies, audit tools, presentations and evaluation. Includes some free to download material.

School provision of E-Safety

• Ealing Grid for Learning E-Safety resources.
• Digizen – very useful site for material to appeal to all stakeholders.
• Kidsmart site.
• Digital Passport – signing up allows access to vast collection of useful e-safety video material.
• Labspace’s guide on developing a school e-safety policy and procedures.
• Free, accredited E-Safety courses for teachers in Foundation, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 run by NAACE.
• Childnet resources. A great set of materials for presentations, activities and guidance for teachers and parents.
• UK Safer Internet Teacher’s site.
• Safer Internet Day – resources for teachers on the TES forum.
• Safer Internet Day toolkit for schools.
• Safer Internet Day lesson plans.
• West Midlands Net – E-Safety provision for schools.
• SWGfL E-Safety resources for schools.
• SWGfL E-Safety policies for schools.
• 360 degree E-Safety audit tool for schools and self evaluation tool.
• HGfL E-Safety policy resources.
• NGfL’s guide to training for teachers parents and governors.
• E-Safety in Primary Schools – a study by Sheffield Hallam University.

E-safety and child protection

• Think U Know teacher resources.
• Think U Know teacher portal.
• Becta “Signposts to Safety” document for KS3 and KS4.
• Becta “Signposts to Safety” document for KS1 and KS2.
• Think you know tips for primary children.
• CEOP
• IWF – report illegal and child abuse images. 
• Childline

E-Safety and Ofsted inspections

• Ofsted briefing documents September 2012.
• Ofsted briefing “staying safe online” February 2012.
• Labspace Ofsted and E-Safety advice for schools.

General E-Safety resources for pupils

• Kidsmart (KS1)
• Chatdanger (KS2)
• Safer Internet (KS2-KS4)
• Digizen (KS2-KS4)
• Childnet Secondary (KS3+)
• Childnet Primary (KS1, KS2)
• Thinkyouknow – CEOP videos suitable for KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4. Also videos for parents.
• SWGfL resources for young people (KS2-4)

E-Safety and parents

• One school’s guide to social media and e-safety for parents.
• UK Safer Internet Parent’s site.
• HGfL’s eSafety guide for parents.
• Know-it-all resources for parents.

Statistics on online safety

• NSPCC statistics
• Sexting and privacy statistics.
• Cyberbullying statistics.

Sexting

• So you got naked online – resource for KS3/4 by SWGfL.

Keeping information private and controlling your digital footprint

• First to a Million video by Think U Know.
• Digital Passport Privacy video from Common Sense Media.
• Digital Footprint video from Common Sense Media.
• Private today, public tomorrow video – KS3/4.
• Facebook’s Guide for parents.
• Digital Passport privacy video. KS3/4.
• Youtube guide to protecting your privacy.
• Cybersmart – a really good Australian site.

Cyerbullying

• A great collection of videos for use by teachers.
• A good idea for internal school cyberbullying reporting.
• Facebook Safety’s help section for parents.
• A stunning and thought provoking film – Submit – about the effects of cyberbullying. Teaching resources for submit the documentary.
• How to respond to cyberbullying as a teacher pdf.
• Cyberbullying glossary.
• Preventing cyberbullying tips.
• Identifying cyberbullying situations sheet.
• DfE guidance on dealing with cyberbullying in schools.
• Cyberbullying.org.
• Let’s fight it together by childnet – video highlighting effect of cyberbullying.

Removing cyberbullying and harassment

• This site offers guides explaining how to remove cyberbullying comments from Facebook and Google search results.

How to choose a strong and secure password

• A great strong password generator.
• A guide to creating a strong password. And another and another.
• Guidance on what makes a password secure: 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Role play scenarios for pupils from Digizen for passwords, privacy and illegal downloading.

Data Encryption – Including memory sticks

Free encryption software to comply with Data Protection ‘sensitive’ data or ‘personal’ data requirements.

• Trucrypt.
• MEO
• Keyparc

Copyright and plagiarism

• This one costs, but is run by turnitin – a company which is used by universities and external examiners.
• A great guide on how to teach copyright law to pupils. Would need to be adapted for UK use, but a good idea.
• Turnitin the leading academic and schools plagiarism checker.
• BBC bitesize guide to copyright.
• Digizen guide to plagiarism.
• Digizen guide to copyright.
• A photographers guide to copyright law.
• Free images for use in school work

Laws and legal framework relating to E-Safety

• A comprehensive list here.
• BBC Bitesize guide to computer related crime and law.

Computer misuse act

• BBC Bitesize guide to the Computer Misuse Act.

Harassment and Stalking law

• Law Gazette guide.
• Crimeline guide to relevant offences.
• CPS guide to stalking and harassment.
• CPS guide to communications offences.
• Harassment Law UK.
• CPS guidance on prosecuting harassment involving social media.

Parental control and monitoring software – recommended

•  CyberSieve 3.0 , Chronager 3.5 , iProtectYou 8.8 . These are all good packages, and simple to set up and use.

Spam

•  A good spam list to include in your email filter, web filter or monitoring software

Digital literacy

• An online digital literacy workshop.
• Digital Passport sign up for teachers.
• Common Sense Media videos for educators.
• Teaching English seminars on digital literacy.
• The Guardian’s digital literacy campaign.
• What is social media presentation.
• A set of videos on digital literacy and online privacy. KS3/4
• Using Flickr in the classroom guide.
• The futurelab digital literacy handbook. A great resource.

Digital literacy pictogram and visualization tools

• Intel tool to check your digital footprint.
• Visualize me – great for online reputation
• Pitktochart – free infographic creator.
• Easely – create and share infographic visuals.
• Visual.ly – great visual story creator
• Infogram – free infographic creator
• Many Eyes – great ways to represent data visually.
• Dipity – create stunning timelines
• Timeline – great linear timeline creator
• Stat Silk – visualization software to create stunning interactive maps and graphs.
• Tableau – create interactive and sharable charts and maps.
• Chartsbin – great for creating demographic maps in geography.
• Creately – free flow chart and diagram creator.
• Gliffy – free diagram, flow chart and decision tree creator.
• Smile Widgets – free open source data visualization creator.

Tom Tolkien is a qualified teacher with senior leadership experience as a prep school Head of ICT ic E-Safety. He also has considerable experience writing about E-Safety for education publishing, creating bespoke policies for schools and delivering staff inset, presentations and seminars for pupils and parents. Please contact here or via Linkedin.

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