Lesson+Four

In this lesson, you will learn to make appropriate decisions when sharing information online through web sites, chat, and email. Your teacher will use the following videos as part of a class discussion on online safety.
 * Lesson 4 - Online Safety and Unit Evaluation **

Do you really know who's online? http://www.netsmartz.org/stories/amy.htm

How easy is it to find someone? http://www.netsmartz.org/stories/teresa.htm

How can you be smart with Social Networking? http://www.nsteens.org/videos/social-networking/

**Digital Citizenship Unit Evaluation**

You've been asked to write a column for the school newspaper called "Dear Netty." Students are sending in questions about online behavior and using the internet. Your task is to write a reply for the "Dear Netty" column of the school newspaper for the letter you are assigned. Make sure to reference the information given on the school website and in your Digital Citizenship lessons. You will be assigned a letter by your teacher.

To receive full credit, make sure to copy your "Dear Netty" letter into a Word or TextEdit document. Compose your replay below the letter. Submit assignments to the StudyWiz activity titled ** Dear Netty. **


 * Letter 1:**

Dear Netty, First of all, let me tell you how awesome my new MacBook computer is! I use it all the time for helping with my school work. It's so easy to copy answers from the Internet and to share answers with my friends that I hardly spend any time doing my homework anymore! Now, here's my question: I want to learn how to copy movie DVDs (especially my collection of Transformer cartoons!) to my computer so that I can make copies for all my friends. That way instead of loaning out my copies, they can all just have a copy of their own to keep. Can you help me find a way to do this using my computer? Thanks! A. Student


 * Letter 2:**

Dear Netty, How's it going? I heard you are a fashion fanatic, so I thought you might be able to help me with my question. I met this really great guy online a couple of weeks ago and we've been emailing and IMing each other every day. He's my age and goes to a school near here. We have the same taste in music and from the picture he sent me, he looks really cute! We're planning to meet next week outside the mall and I can't figure out what to wear. Should I borrow an outfit from a friend or ask my mom for money to buy something new? She doesn't know we're meeting, so I guess I'll have to make up some reason I need the money. Please help me decide what I should wear!! Yours truly, A. Student II


 * Letter 3:**

Dear Netty, I need your help big time! One of my friends asked me for my Studywiz password and I gave it to him. Now, some of the kids around school are complaining about messages they got that say really nasty things about them. The worst part is that it looks like the messages came from me! I didn't send them, and when I asked my friend about it, he smiled and said "Funny, huh?" I DON'T think it's funny and now no one will talk to me. I want to give him a taste of what it feels like to have someone say mean things about you, so I'm going to send out messages to all the students about him. Can you think of some really good put-downs I can use in my messages? Your friend (really), A. Student III

Social Networking - http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/digitalcitizenship/lessons/9-12/acceptable_social_networking/