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SchoolNet Global Safety Guidelines
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What we do
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The SchoolNet Global Website is a safe site. Its content is carefully monitored for unsuitable material. All contributions to the SchoolNet Global Gallery are checked by teachers before they are made widely available. The Web Masters also check everything that goes on to web site.
We will not offer links to other sites that could be harmful.
Personal information about participants will be held confidential.
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What teachers need to do
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Teachers are asked to give separate advice to SchoolNet Global investigators and to arrange safe and productive access to people and places so that pupils can carry out their Curriculum Project field studies and interviews in safety. See 5 Steps to Cyberspace
You must ensure your pupils have approval from the people they write about before they publish anything on the website.
Teachers are asked to make pupils aware that anything they write about themselves or their interviewees, could be seen by millions of people who use the Internet. They should be careful not to reveal anything that could be used to harm or embarrass them on anyone else. They must not give out home addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses and should consider whether to use their real names or credible pseudonyms (web names) for themselves and the people that they write about.
Teachers, must review what pupils write carefully before you give approval. When you think they are ready, pupils can take or send the print-out of their work and the Approval Form to the interviewees or donors of copyright materials for checking and signing. Pupils will also need your approval before they can put work on the website, so please review their text and images carefully and sign when you approve. You must keep the Approval Form safe at school.
Schools should also consider whether to put children's photographs in their SchoolNet Global Passports. They can instead include self-portrait sketches or include no image at all.
There is a bank of research and advice on these issues which we have summarised for you here. We ask you to consider these issues and to create your own code of conduct for your home or your school.
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The challenge in perspective
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The World Wide Web that carries this SchoolNet Global project is appropriately named; it is both global and enticing. The full spectrum of individuals that make our world interesting and occasionally dangerous are also 'out there' on the Internet too. Just because this is new technology does not mean that our old experience and common sense won't work. Indeed, just the opposite is true; rules that work in the rest of our lives also work well on the Internet.
A good test is to look at what we do in other parts of our lives: for example:
- Schools are happy to send photographs of students to the newspapers, with names, but they would never add phone numbers!
- We don't always believe what we read.
- What we say to people that are known to us is different to what we say to strangers.
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