Safe Family- Helping people of all ages to stay safe on Social Networks.
Social networking and sharing content are becoming an integral part of family life. They provide enormous opportunities to develop creative, critical thinking and communication skills at home, school and in the workplace. Safe Family, developed by the creators of Safe - the Certificate in Social Networking, has been launched for Safer Internet Day, 7th February 2012.
Safe Family Activities
Inspired by the theme ‘Connecting Generations’, Safe Family Activities encourage people of all ages to share their experiences of staying safe through completing practical tasks together on social networks.
Families can complete the activities at home by downloading the resources from the Safe Family website and using simple on line tools to create profiles, blogs and comments. Schools and libraries will host Safe Family learning sessions for children, parents and grandparents; connecting the generations to help each other stay safe online. The activities are perfect for people new to social networks, both young and old - so get connecting!
Safe Family Activities include:
1. Create a Safe Profile
2. Get Blogging!
3. Connect and Comment
On completion of activities, families can register & download the ‘Connecting Generations 2012’ Safe Family Certificate.
We are looking for Schools and Libraries around the UK to take part by hosting and inviting families along to complete the activities! The first 10 Schools and Libraries to register for Safe Family and quote the promo code 'SIDFamily2012' will receive free Safe Posters to promote your Safe Family event.
To sign up to Safe Family and download the Activities, go to www.safesocialnetworking.org/
If you have already registered for Safe, please email safe@digitalme.co.uk and quote the promo code 'SIDFamily2012'.
Join Safe
Safe is the Certificate in Safe Social Networking and is an easy to follow programme of practical activities for schools. Pupils learn the basics of using social networks and progress to creating their own media and understanding about their ‘digital footprint’. Safe is mapped to the KS2 ICT curriculum and is a perfect match for schools wanting to cover e-safety under their general safeguarding responsibilities. To sign up to Safe go towww.safesocialnetworking.org . If you need a moderated social media platform for your school to run your Safe activities, Radiowaves is the perfect match. To sign up to Radiowaves go to www.radiowaves.co.uk/join
Safer Internet Day 2012 – Connecting Generations
Safer Internet Day 2012 is celebrated worldwide and this year is an opportunity to encourage users young and old to "discover the digital world together safely". An inspirational array of activity is taking place nationwide, coordinated by the UK Safer
Internet Centre (www.saferinternet.org.uk), with all activities focusing attention on empowering all generations to safely benefit from the opportunities that the internet offers.
For further information on national activities taking place for Safer Internet Day, please visit www.saferinternet.org.uk
a school has asked me to do internet safety talk for 8 year olds, any tips?
Hi Ben, first of all good luck! My tip would be, make it practical. We believe the best way to learn safe social networking and keeping safe online is by doing. We often ask pupils to work in pairs and discuss and create a safe profile. I see you've already signed up to Safe, so you should have received the link to download the resources. Why not download and adapt one of the activities for your session. CEOP http://ceop.police.uk/ and Childnet http://www.childnet-int.org/ also have great advice for e-safety. Hope it goes well!