Online safety

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Global2 is a great place to communicate and teach students to use social media safely and responsibly.

DEECD provides policy and advice around the safe and responsible use of digital technologies for Victorian schools in Learning on line

Some specific tips around Global2:

• Understand the technology 
  Read the Edublogs user guide (Global2 is an Edublog Campus). You should know how to delete a comment, archive a blog, view your students’ blogs and comments and set appropriate privacy settings. Starting with an individual or single class blog is advised. All individual blogs require an email account. Teaching students to manage their blogs and share anything they see as a concern is essential. Keep an eye on both the emails they receive and or the blogs themselves. Make sure students know what to do when they see something that concerns them.
• Establish expected behaviours 
  Set clear and expected behaviours for all students. Establish actions for reporting issues and removing inappropriate content.
• Keep control
  The process of teachers setting up their class blogs creates hierarchy. Teachers have the capacity to maintain control and access to all blog content, comments and settings through this hierarchy.
• Parental Consent
  Consent must be fully informed, freely given, current and specific in how the information will be presented and to whom it will be presented. Schools will require signed authority for any work, images or information posted online. School should understand that while consent can be freely given, it can also be withdrawn at any time. The school would then be required to remove the content/resource immediately.
• Protect personal information
  Keep students’ information private. Ensure that you never use students’ full names or include their email addresses online and that they do the same. Never label a photo with a student’s full name.  Ensure you have informed consent before posting images of students online or allowing students to post images of others.