Electronic Safety document provides information and advice to students in grades 4-5 about staying safe online and using cell phones appropriately. It discusses common risks like cyberbullying, inappropriate content, and interacting with strangers. The document encourages students to avoid sharing private information, ignore bullies, and tell a trusted adult if they feel unsafe online or receive harmful messages. It emphasizes the importance of thinking before posting personal details or photos and getting permission before sharing other people's information.

1. Electronic Safety
Keeping yourself safe on the
internet and cell phone
Intended for Grades 4-5

2. Do you have a computer at home?
1. Yes
96%
2. No
4%
s
o
Ye
N

3. Do you have/use a cell phone?
1. Yes
86%
2. No
14%
s
o
Ye
N

4. Do you ever play games online?
1. Yes
95%
2. No
5%
s
o
Ye
N

5. Do you have an e-mail address?
1. Yes
87%
2. No
13%
s
o
Ye
N

6. Do you ever use Chat groups?
1. Yes
2. No 63%
37%
s
o
Ye
N

7. Have you ever visited Facebook,
Myspace or other “social sites”?
1. Yes
2. No 74%
26%
s
o
Ye
N

8. Have you ever sent or received a
text message?
1. Yes
75%
2. No
25%
s
o
Ye
N

9. Have you ever bullied someone
online?
1. Yes
2. No 71%
29%
s
o
Ye
N

10. Have you ever been bullied online?
1. Yes
2. No 54%
46%
s
o
Ye
N

11. Electronic Enemies:
1) Cyberbullies
2) Spammers
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3) Defamatory Sites
4) Child Predators
5) Cellphone Abuser

12. What is Cyber Bullying?
Cyber bullying is sending or posting
harmful or cruel text or images using the
Internet or other digital communication
devices, including cell phones and PDA's
(personal digital assistants)

13. Cyber-bullying can include:
• Sending cruel, vicious or threatening e-mails or
IMs.
• Creating Web sites that have stories, pictures
and jokes ridiculing others.
• Posting pictures of other students/kids online
with derogatory phrases or questions attached
to them.
• Using someone else's e-mail to send vicious or
incriminating e-mails to others.
• Using instant messaging tools to harass others.

14. Save your Identity
• Only share passwords with
parents/guardians
• Change your passwords routinely
• Set webpages, profiles, blogs, etc. to
private

15. How much is too much?
Discuss with an elbow buddy what
information is safe to put on a
webpage, blog, myspace or a
facebook account.

16. Too much information:
• Do not give away your gender, age, or
location in screen names
• Avoid posting photos that could be
damaging now or in the future
• All pictures should be altered to remove
identifying information
• Don’t post plans or where you are located
• Think about real life effects of posts

17. Defamatory Sites
Changes information on your site without
your permission
Creates a site about you without you
knowing
Posts negative material or lies about you
Created by cyber-bullies

18. Have you ever been a victim of a
cyber bully?
Students Who've Been Bullied
Online Between Grades 4-8
43% Yes
57% No

19. Ways to handle cyber-bullies:
• not giving out your passwords or any personal
information to anyone, either online or in person.
• not replying to a message from an online bully.
• blocking e-mail or instant messages from the
sender.
• You can also save harassing messages and forward
them to your Internet Service Provider (ISP). ISPs are
companies, such as AOL, Netscape, and NetZero
that provide Internet access to consumers. Most
ISPs have policies that restrict users from harassing
others over the Internet.
• Be aware! Cyber bullies can easily change screen
names.
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20. Ways to handle cyber-bullies:
• Ignore the bullying or tell them to stop.
• Tell a parent, teacher or trusted adult if
you are being bullied online. This isn't
"tattling“ or “snitching.”
• If you know someone else who is being
mean to other kids online, tell them to
stop and then tell a parent or teacher.

21. Spammers
Sends you junk e-mails or texts
Sends e-mails to everyone in their address
book or in contact list
Sends links to sites that contain
inappropriate materials
Sends the same material repeatedly

22. Cellphone Abusers
Send bullying text messages
Take pictures of people on their cameras
without their consent or knowledge
Use cell phones to text links to
inappropriate sites, spam by phone
Gang up on someone by group texting

23. Child Predators
Intent is to meet children for illegal
purposes
May intend to harm you
May suggest to meet in real life
Gathers facts about you from your
websites, chat, and profiles

24. Avoiding Electronic Enemies
- It is important to know who you are talking
to when using electronic devices.
- Anything you say to someone on-line or in
a text has a permanent record, it will
NEVER go away
- You should report anyone who makes you
feel uncomfortable to an adult.
- Never attempt to “fight back” electronically

25. Electronic Safety Pledges

26. I Pledge…
• I promise to tell an adult about e-mails or text
messages that make me feel uncomfortable,
bully me, or bully others.
• I will tell a parent if anyone asks for my personal
information including but not limited to phone
numbers, addresses and passwords.
• I will never meet anyone from online. I will tell
an adult if someone online asks to meet me.

27. I Pledge…
• I will not create sites, post comments, or
post pictures with the intent of hurting
someone’s feelings.
• I will not use a cell phone or a computer to
bully someone else, even if they have
previously done it to me.
• I will not say things electronically that I
would not say face to face.