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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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eSafety in eTwinning projects: Look before
you leap!
by Angela Capezzuto
eSafety is not an easy topic to breach to young
people, especially since the Internet is their major
source of contact with the rest of the world and any
type of preaching about dangers present even
among their so-called “friends” in social media
websites, induces a closing up of communication
with them, making the approach useless. In my
school, there have been various attempts to breach
this topic with them e.g. web conference with postal
police, visits from eSafety experts from the Italian
centre “Generazioni Connesse” and postal police
experts, but when asked for their feedback, their
comments were mostly about getting bored or
similar.
Fortunately, through the CPD (continuous
professional development) offered on the eTwinning
Live portal (see the Professional Development
section in eTwinning Live) and also in the eTwinning
featured group “Bringing eSafety into eTwinning
Projects” moderated by Aneta Wilk, I was chosen to
be part of the Teacher Panel at the Safer Internet
Forum (SIF) in November 2017.
This was the breakthrough I needed to set up a
project with my dear friend from Serbia, Jasna
Boskovic, who I had worked with last year in a
successful eTwinning project about managing in
today’s job market, and who is an expert in
Cybersecurity. A little digression, I have added the
mention of my colleague to let the reader know
about the wonderful opportunities to meet expert
teachers around Europe without leaving the
classroom!
Putting our ideas together, and using the input from
my experience in the SIF, we began to experiment
engaging ways of presenting serious topics to our
students such as Netiquette, Password Security,
Copyright, Fake News, eSafety terminology and
lastly, but not leastly, reaching out to their youth
community by sharing the knowledge they
acquired, through posts, video tutorials, posters
and podcasts.
The project through facts:
# Present yourself through the Padlet Likes/Dislikes
of the Internet.
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