Cyber Bullying - Cyber Safety
What you can do to keep your child safe
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What is
Cyber
Bullying?
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What is
Cyber Safety?
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Some Statistics
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and perspective
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Type of Cyberbullies
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What to do if you are Cyberbullied
For Parents
Preserve evidence
Stop or remove the material
Identify the Bully and talk to them
In extreme cases contact the Police
Schools - Contact the parents of the student and request
their assistance in resolving the matter.
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Would you say it face to face?
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What to do if you are Cyberbullied
For Students
Donʼt reply to abusive messages, that may only encourage the
bully.
Keep a record of events/messages or pictures
Think before you send pictures of someone via email, or mobile phone,
they can spread far beyond your circle of friends.
If you receive a rude image or text about someone else do not forward
it
You have a right not to be harassed and bullied online, make sure you
tell someone.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Donʼt let anyone else use it.
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Cyber Safety

Why?
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Why?
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Staying Safe Social Networking
4 Key Safety Issues
Flirty Nicknames
Flirty Photos
Listing a Surname
Listing a Mobile Number
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Target Shopping?
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Residence Locator?
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Think before you post
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Messaging
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Research from the
National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children found
• 71% of teens (ages
13-17) reported
receiving messages
online from people
they don’t know

• 40% reported that
they would usually
reply and chat
with that person

• 30% considered
meeting someone
that they have only
talked to online

• 14% have actually had
such an encounter
(9% of 13- to 15-
year-olds)

Think before you post
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What can you do?
• Talk to your child about their account and
actions
• Show them educational movies
• Ask them to block users they don’t know
• Visit netalert.com.au
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How do we protect
your child at school?
• Email Filtering
• www filtering
• Blocking
• History
• Tracking
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Where can you go for help?

http://thebigquestion.edublogs.org/

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Resources
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www.kidscape.org.uk/assets/downloads/conference091104/
www.flickr.com/photos/ MaryLouiseMorris-Cyberbullying.pdf
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Children & Cyberbullying 2007
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugley/2167036107/sizes/o/
http://www.slideshare.net/robslides/children-
cyberbullying-2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzn37/2802221141/sizes/o/
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