E-Safety resources for primary and secondary schools
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.
- IWF – report illegal and child abuse images.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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
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.
- A good spam list to include in your email filter, web filter or monitoring software
- 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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