Ideas for eTwinning projects on eSafety
Title: Being e-aware, feeling e-safe
Age range: 11-14
Duration: 10 months
Project description:
Students attending the project will develop their learning competences in the following fields:
1) ICT - they will get to know how to use the social media responsibly,
2) languages - they will increase their language skills in scope of using English in the process of everyday communication,
3) entrepreneurship - students will take a leading role in carrying out the project activities.
Author: Aneta Wilk, moderator of Bringing eSafety into eTwinning projects group
4) team working – they will prepare project tasks working in mixed national and international groups.
Project activities:
1. Let’s introduce ourselves
Students will introduce themselves using virtual boards (Padlet, Jamboard) or voice applications (Voki, Vocaroo).
2. Our code of online behaviour
Students will work in their national groups to prepare their own code of online behaviour.
Students from all countries attending the project will prepare a common poster in Canva presenting their final work.
3. Competition for the best poster promoting eSafety
Each national team will prepare posters promoting eSafety. Students will choose the best poster created by their foreign peers by using a Google voting survey.
4. Students' ideas for a slogan/motto promoting eSafety
Students will use chat available in the project space to exchange propositions of slogans/mottos promoting eSafety idea. All of them will be collected in the Tricider application. Using the application students will vote for the most interesting slogan.
5. eSafety corner
Working in an international team students will exchange their ideas on quizzes and crosswords referring to eSafety. They will use a sharable Google document to post their proposals of definitions and answers to common quizzes and crosswords.
6. Students’ eSafety ideas
Students will record voice messages containing tips and advice directed to their peers on how to be safe online.
7. Evaluation
Students will write postcards to their peers in which they will express their acknowledgement for the fruitful collaboration as well as summarize their work in the project. Students will complete a Google survey.
Author: Aneta Wilk, moderator of Bringing eSafety into eTwinning projects group
Tools to be used: TwinSpace tools (forum, chat, videoconference system),Padlet, - Jamboard, - Google Drive Disk, Vocaroo, Voki, - Tricider, - BeFunky,LearningApps, - Fotobabble, -Smilebox, - Canva.
Dissementation:
Both the project plan and the tools presented above can easily be used to implement into another eTwinning project on a similar topic. The project plan can be easily modified, which allows it to be adapted into implementation when working with students in different age groups.
Title: Hate speech online - it doesn't work
Age range: 3-14
Duration: 10 months
Project description:
Internet is an important issue that needs to be addressed at school. In our project the project partners will look for answers to the following questions: How do I deal with personal information on social networks? How can I avoid harassment on the Internet? What is Netiquette? We also want to express our lack of acceptance of hate speech on the Internet. The main aims of the project concentrate on:
- making students aware of how to use digital media in a responsible way,
- developing students’ skills on how to use the Internet in a safe way,
- getting to know how to create positive online content,
- developing students’ ICT skills.
Project activities:
1. Introduce yourself – creating a joint presentation in Google space, presenting partner schools, students and teachers participating in the project.
2. Common netiquette – developing a set of rules of proper behavior on the Internet (Genially, Book creator).
3. Our activity on the Internet – survey – students work together on questions for the survey regarding Internet security (Google surveys).
4. Our common eSafety vocabulary bank – students work on the mental map containing vocabulary on ICT and eSafety (https://mind42.com)
5. Project logo – students create artworks with the project logo designs – voting (Wakelet/Padlet).
Author: Aneta Wilk, moderator of Bringing eSafety into eTwinning projects group
6. Comic books – students work on comic books presenting different situations regarding online Safety (Google disk)
7. Safer Internet Day - students present ideas on eSafety actions that can be undertaken in their schools to celebrate the campaign. They prepare online educational games and present them to other students at their schools. They promote safe behaviors on the Internet among school society. (Wordwall, Quizizz, Genially).
8. Fake news - students work in international groups. In each team students from one school prepare messages using a fake news generator. The messages are uploaded as an image in the project forum. The project partners from other schools make comments on them to find out if the messages are fake news or not. At the end they get feedback from the news authors if their ideas are correct (Break Your Own News - Breaking News Generator, Generator Newsów (dziennikbulwarowy.pl), Create your custom fake news (worldgreynews.com)
9. Project evaluation – students complete the satisfactory survey (Google disk survey).
Title: eSafety first
Age range: 10-17
Duration: 10 months
Project description:
The main goal of the project is to familiarize students with the principles of safe use of the Internet and electronic media. During the work on the project students will try to find out answers to questions related to the issues of their activity in the digital world. They will concentrate on the following matters: How to handle personal data on social media? What is netiquette? How to treat information found on the web?
The main aims of the project concentrate on developing the key competences based on the European framework:
• the ability to communicate in a foreign language,
• the ability to analyze facts and opinions,
• the ability to work in a team,
• the ability to use ICT in a proper and safe way,
• the ability to use different digital tools to make presentations and engage partners,
Author: Aneta Wilk, moderator of Bringing eSafety into eTwinning projects group
• the ability to identify different cultural elements which are representative for national and European culture.
Project activities:
1. Introduce yourself - partners present themselves and try to find more about one another (the forum of the project, Padlet).
2. Creating common netiquette rules – digit.pad
3. The logo of the project - students will design the logo of the project using any digital tools and techniques. The most interesting logo will be chosen by voting (Wakelet).
4. Safer Internet Day - students will prepare to celebrate Safer Internet Dayexchanging ideas on activities, presenting actions that could be carried out in schools (Google Drive docs, Google survey, LearningApps).
5. Tools for safe searching – students will be presented with some tools for safe searching, which can help them to filter content by image, e-mail address or a specific phrase (search with an image on Google, phrase search, TineEye application, Have I Been Pwned application). After having a look at the tools and checking their functionality, students will express their opinion on their usefulness.
6. Our common Safety dictionary - students will prepare a common dictionary concerning eSafety vocabulary using Wakelet application.
7. Digital footprint - students will learn how to protect their personality online, how to verify the credibility of the information found on the Internet. They will get to know Wayback machine application.
8. eSafety comic books – working in international teams students will create minidialogues concerning e-Safety issues. They will use editable Canva templates to complete this task
9. Evaluation – students will complete an evaluation survey created in Google Disk.
Recording from the webinar presenting the project: https://youtu.be/4WnDXNjQQH8?si=3iez9XFhwLGX4JvB
Another eTwinning project on eSafety
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eSafety comic book
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Author: Aneta Wilk, moderator of Bringing eSafety into eTwinning projects group