Back to school - stop sending nudes
BeSmartOnline's back-to-school campaign features a moving image with an essential message about online safety, specifically addressing the risks associated with sharing intimate photos with strangers. The accompanying caption provides a comprehensive alert, offering practical tips to enhance awareness and foster responsible online behavior.
Caption reads:
🚫 Caution: Online Safety Alert! 🚨
Back to school campaign - stop responding, combatting cyberbullying
BeSmartOnline's back-to-school campaign features a moving image promoting kindness and discouraging cyberbullying. The accompanying caption, aligned with Bullying Prevention Month, encourages users to play a role in creating a positive digital environment.
Caption reads:
🚫 Stop the Cycle: Choose Kindness Online! 🤐
In honor of Bullying Prevention Month, let's remember the power we hold in not responding to mean messages. ⚡️
Online trends and behaviours - Teacher's training presentation
The "Online trends and behaviours" presentation is an indispensable resource for professionals within the educational field and anyone invested in ensuring the online safety of young individuals. Derived from case studies encountered through the BeSmartOnline helpline and hotline in Malta, the presentation offers a firsthand look at the diverse challenges faced by children in the digital realm.
Key topics covered:
Early Digital Years - for Early Years Teachers Presentation
The "Enhancing Early Years Online Safety" presentation was exclusively led by experts from the Safer Internet Centre, Helpline, and Hotline, providing a specialized focus on the unique challenges faced by educators working with young children. The session aimed to equip early years teachers with the knowledge and tools necessary to create a safe and enriching online environment for their students.
Key Topics Covered:
-Understanding Online Risks
-Integrating Online Safety Education into the Curriculum
-Safety Tools Awareness and Usage
Healthy Relationships Online - A guide for teens presentation
Embarking on the digital journey can be thrilling for teenagers, and with that excitement comes the responsibility to foster healthy relationships online. Our presentation, tailored for teenagers, delves into the crucial theme of cultivating positive connections in the digital realm.
Key Topics Covered:
Responsibility in Online Behavior:
-Addressing Cyberbullying: Empowering teens to be accountable for their actions, fostering a culture of respect and empathy to combat cyberbullying.
BesmartOnline - S.I.D 2023 video - Cyberbullying
The Safer Internet Day 2023 YouTube Clip stands as a testament to the commitment of our Youth Ambassadors and the children in our Youth Participation Group. In this engaging 2-minute video, participants provide candid responses to questions related to cyberbullying, 'online respect,' and strategies for bystander intervention. The clip not only captures the raw experiences and insights of young minds but also serves as an educational resource for schools and online platforms.
Tips on how to protect yourself from Grooming - social media post
In our ongoing efforts to champion online safety, we present crucial insights targeted at tweens and teens to raise awareness about safeguarding against online grooming. The provided content outlines practical tips for navigating the digital world securely.
1. Think Before You Share:
The material underscores the significance of refraining from sharing personal pictures or videos online, especially with unfamiliar individuals, emphasizing the irreversibility of online content.
2. Friend Requests:
Appropriate age for use of online applications - PEGI
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Do you feel safe allowing your child to ride a roller coaster without a proper harness that they can slip through? Do you feel comfortable allowing your child to be exposed to situations that could highly affect their emotional and psychological wellbeing?
Balanced Use of Technology
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Time is precious and irreplaceable. Once a moment is lost, it's lost forever.
Are you in control of how you use your time, or is there something stealing away your power?
Social Media is well known to be a time-waster that drains your energy when you could be using your precious moments on something more meaningful that can you closer to your goals.
Digital Security Guide
The reality is that children are starting to use technological equipment, access the Internet and interact with Technology at an increasingly younger age. This early use of technology and equipment has benefits, such as the development of language skills or logical and strategic reasoning acquired through games, but it also brings children some risks, such as viewing inappropriate content or contacting people they don’t know.
