Primary Bits and Bytes

(Posted by Fiona)

The last few weeks have seen the release of new eSafety resources. Safer Internet Day 2012 (SID 2012)  takes place on Tuesday 7th February with the theme of Connecting Generations and Educating Each Other. The main event website can be found at http://www.saferinternet.org, keep checking the resources section, resources for this year’s event should be available in the next week or so.

CEOP ThinkUKnow will be supporting SID 2012 by broadcasting The Parents’ and Carers’ Guide to the Internet, which will be available to stream or download and use during parent information sessions. The video and other resouces will be available from the ThinkUKnow website on the 9th January.

YHGfL have also set up a support page for SID 2012 http://www.yhgfl.net/eSafeguarding/eSafety/Safer-Internet-Day-2012. At present it has videos to support schools in planning an event. Further materials for use on the day will be available shortly.

YHGfL have teamed up with ROAR Educate to offer schools the opportunity to buy an eSafety software product called ‘Grapple’ which can be used by parents and children to help bridge the knowledge gap between different generations. ‘Grapple’ will be offered to YHGfL schools for a discounted rate and ROAR Educate will allow schools to sell the software to parents/carers enabling them to raise funds for the school. More details of this unique opportunity for YHGfL schools will be available in early January. For a sample of Grapple and useful eSafety challenge for parents and pupils, see the ROAR educate website homepage.

The UK Safer Internet Centre have released a new resource to support parents, which fits in nicely with this year’s theme. A Parents’ Guide to Technology is an online guide which includes information on the  safe use of gaming devices, tablets and smartphones.

(Posted by Fiona)

CEOP have a launched a competition to coincide with Safer Internet Day 2011 called ‘My Life Online’. It is aimed at 8-16 year olds and is split into two categories (8-10 and 11-16). The winning entry will receive an Xbox 360 with Kinect. Hurry if you want to enter, the closing date is January 24th.

Full details and links can be found on the CEOP ThinkUKnow website:

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/Teachers/My-life-Online-Competiton/

(Posted by Fiona)

CEOP have posted a ‘Minute for Madeleine’ video on their website with the intention of persuading anyone who knows something to come forward. Here is the message from CEOP and link to the video:

‘Please take a minute of your time for Madeleine McCann and help spread this special message around the world. A new film has been released by the UK’s police organisation for child protection – the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre – aimed at anyone close to the person who was involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. That person could be a relative, friend, work colleague or neighbour. Whoever they are, they have a secret that could reveal what happened to Madeleine.
In order to reach that person, CEOP are asking for the public’s help to share this message virally, via the internet, so that the message is so
widespread it becomes one click away to the person who knows something about Madeleine’s disappearance.  The message is then a constant
reminder that it is never too late to do the right thing, to stop keeping this secret  and pass this vital information to their local police.
You can view the full message which is part of a 60 second film at http://www.ceop.police.uk/

If you are online and part of an online community, you can help.  Post the link on your social networking site, email your friends and colleagues and  encourage them to share the film, blog and Tweet about the film and link to the website above.  Do anything you can to spread this message around the world.  The message is available at http://www.ceop.police.uk/ and is in seven different languages – English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.  This initiative is supported by Leicestershire Police, Interpol, Europol and international police agencies as well as specialist charities and NGO’s such as the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Missing Children Europe and the UK charity Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT).

So, please help.  Take a minute for Madeleine and help share this message around the world.’

(Posted by Fiona)

I have just read an email announcement from CEOP asking all Think U Know trainers and ambassadors to raise awareness of an online message which will appear on the CEOP website tomorrow. The content remains a mystery, here is an extract from the email:

‘CEOP needs your help to spread a very important message.

On Tuesday 3 November, CEOP is going to be releasing a special online message and we want to ensure that as many people as possible see it. In fact, we want this message to be seen around the world!

The message will be a short piece of text and a link to a short film on ceop.police.uk.’

I’ll post the link and further details tomorrow.