Exercise 1 - Netiquette by

Daniela Guimarães (Portugal)

danidesg — 2017-12-01 21:07:46 UTC

I have never been envolved in any kind of problems related with social media and I never felt the need to report any issue.
This is something that I'm really afraid. I always try to be careful with my posts in all social media. I use them, specially Facebook, to disseminate teachers' materials/websites that I find interesting, as well as to web 2.0 tools that can be used in the teaching process. I never use these media to show my private life or family, and I respect who does it, however I think everyone should be aware of the dangers that that behaviour.
When I say that I've never reported any issue, that doesn't mean that I have never saw some comments that I felt that they shouldn't be done. However I think that sometimes is better to don't give to many significance, or it can be even worse. I usualy say that: my freedom of speech doesn't give me the right to be rude with the others.
In the future if I see me involved in any incident: 1st) I will report the problem to the social media responsables ; 2nd) I will contact the police (in case of very injurious content).

Olga Bertomeu Forés (Spain

2017-12-02 09:26:03 UTC

I have never been involved in any kind of problems related to social media in relation to bullying... However, two months ago I had a problem with an add that was on facebook. Advertisements on facebook are usually a fake and I didn't know about it. I saw an advertisement on Tommy Hilfiger's shoes and I bought a pair of shoes. I thought it was Tommy's webpage but it was a fake. I paid the shoes and I received an e-mail telling me the payment was correct. After two weeks I received a parcel with a Chinese T-shirt on which there were the words "Drop out" in the front and "Drunk" at the back. I immediately looked at my bank account and I had two different payments done to somewhere in China and of different quatities. So they made a duplication of my card. I went to the police station to denounce the case and to the bank to invalid my card. Therefore, I learnt that we only have to buy in safe places and advertisements on Facebook are usually a fake.

Marta P (Catalonia)

martapcallis — 2017-12-02 12:03:51 UTC

Luckily, I have never had any problems with working online with my pupils: I guess it is because when I carry out etwinning projects, I use the twinspace mainly. Anyway, in 2009 I was using a blog because the new twinspace was not ready when we started the project: the project was about fashion and I got a message from two companies who wanted to adverstise in my blog (they were selling trainers and accessories). I contacted my NA to see what I had to do with that, and they told me that I was not allowed to advertise anything when working in etwinning.
If I ever have a bad experience with innappropiate material or behaviour, I would report it to the NA and also block the user, and if it persists, i will contact the police.

Ljubica Ruzhinska (Macedonia)

rljubica_78 — 2017-12-02 16:59:29 UTC

I've never had any problems or incidents involving spamming, bullying or harassment with my students (or colleagues) when participating in an online community. One of the reasons for this would be probably because my students are young (7-11 years old) and so far I've used closed educational communities for lessons and projects (such as eTwinning-TwinSpace, Edmodo) where I can easily monitor my student's activities while online. I also spend a lot of time discussing and explaining the netiquette rules as well as model appropriate online behavior to them. Of course if an incident like this would happen in the future I would probably talk to the student/students about it, or depending on the nature of the incident talk to the student's parents, other teachers (ex. the class teacher) or any other party which would need to be involved.

(Bulgaria

innovator68 — 2017-12-02 17:40:48 UTC

Fortunately, I have never been involved spamming nor bullying when I have participated in online community. I usually use eTwinning Live, Edmodo, Facebook and Twitter. I always to try be careful with peaople who I connect and communicate. Before involving students in the projects we accept our own netiquette rules and I always monitor them. We have created a cloze facebook group and at the beginning we also
accept our netiquette rules. They know that they will never post or share their personal information online (including full name, address, telephone number, school name, parents’ names, credit card number, or Social Security number) or their friends’ personal information. Parents are informed about these rules and they can monitor them , too!
I think that if I have a problem in the future I will report it and will contact with the police and people who can help me.

MARIA ROSARIA GRASSO Italy

mrgrasso — 2017-12-02 19:04:52 UTC

Fortunately, I or my students have never been involved in an online incident such us spamming, bullying and harassment. I always get my students aware that online behavior can present e-safety risks. Most social networking sites set age restrictions on using their services, but there is no verification. As a result, many younger children ignore the terms and conditions of service, unaware of the risks this might pose. That’s why teachers need to inform kids at about all the possible risks of the net. If in the future I get involved in any kind of an incident, depending on the type, I will inform parents, reports the problem to the social media responsable and/or contact the police.

Sami Hammami Tunisia

sami511 — 2017-12-02 19:42:21 UTC

Fortunately until now I have never had an incident or been involved in social networking issues and I never report a problem.
I always try to be vigilant and pay attention to my messages in all my online parishes. I often participate in the publication of online media or documents on facebook but it is always within the framework of closed and moderated groups by administrators.
I often want to inform my students of the risks of using the internet and I warn them not to put on line publications that can harm them or that can be used by other people.
when working on projects I always try to control access and check if my students are safe when they work in collaboration with their partners.

I have never been involved in an online incident .My students havent't been involved , too . If this will ever happen , wiLl ask help for the specialists and institutions or will report at "HELP LINE. SIGUR INFO."

iorga — 2017-12-03 09:17:21 UTC

http://oradenet.salvaticopiii.ro/

violette blé, france, group10

violette_ble1 — 2017-12-03 10:16:18 UTC

I never had problems with social media because I don't use them a lot. I have a facebook account, but I don't use it very often; I have a twitter account, but I cannot remember my login(!!). Usually, I use palteforms that are safe to work with my students: twinspace is sure. When I make a video, I use "unlisted" so that only those who have the link can watch it. In France, we have clear rules about images with students. So it is better to make things properly.
If I had problems by using social medias or palteforms at school, I would tell it to my headmaster and to the academic authority. If I had problems with personal accounts, I would change my password at first, and then I would erase the account. With etwnning, I would tell to the NSS.

Alessandro Ruffino / Italy

eTwinproject — 2017-12-03 11:44:24 UTC

I use all social network to disseminate the results of my etwinning project and only one time I was involved in an unpleasant fact! Usually I create a facebook group linked to eTwinning project and in this group there are also students. In a my post of this facebook group there was a comment that I didn't see it but others saw. In this comment there was a link to a porno site. It was embarassing for me, thank god one of teacher partner told me this and to erase my post, in the same time was erased the comment with the link!

I have never been involved in any online incident. I teach students who are very young and they always use social networks like facebook, edmodo in a group where parents and teachers are always members of the groups. But, if I find myself in having a problem I will contect our school's psychologist, the parents, the headteacher and the administrative service will deal with the problem immediately.

delizabata — 2017-12-03 12:21:55 UTC

florinappsc — 2017-12-03 13:17:57 UTC

I have never been involved in an online incident. Generally, people join online communities for a lot of reasons. We as teachers, are usually using many apps, online platforms, etc. An important issue with participating in these communities is that of online community safety. The Internet can be an empowering tool, but it involves risks. Online community providers offer several ways to help protect us when we use their services, depending upon the kind of community we join. eTwinning is a safety community and here we and our pupils are be learning in wich way we can protect from online incident involving spamming, bullying or harassment. Here we can find the „eTwinning code of conduct” and if someone threat us, we need "to report the message or contact our National Support Service". These things must be learn by pupils, too!

Aline Moulin

2017-12-03 13:46:01 UTC

I have never had problems with social media. I think it's because I don't use it so much. Ihave got a facebook account and I use it to communicate with a small group . I 've ever reported some incident into a facebook page. Some people doesn't realize that they participate to the dissemination of bad videos and false informations . It is dangerous. When the videos are from persons that I am familiar with, I tell them to remove the video. Next, I notify the plateform about the problem. Finally, I can choose to block the person so as to never see this kind of content anymore.

Carmen Rodríguez (UK)

c_rodvix — 2017-12-03 14:37:43 UTC

Fortunately, I have never been involved in any online incident. I don’t normally share private information through social media so I think that helps. I use online platformS mainly for educational purposes such as getting in touch with other educators, learning professional development opportunities, discovering what is happening around the world. If i used it for personal purposes, I make sure it´s private. When sharing posts that contain pictures or videos with my pupils I always check first if they have permission. Obviously, online incidents can happen so in this sense I will talk to the person involved (pupils, parents, staff…) and I will report the incident to make sure it’s sorted and it's not going to happen in the future.

Hakan TATLI Kayseri Türkiye

hatatli01 — 2017-12-03 16:16:26 UTC

Until this day, I did not experience exposure to bullying, spam and harassment in any online case. But I intervened in such a situation. The student at the school I was working with stated that an account was opened in a social media account and that there was a negativity. I just wanted an account. I registered myself with a woman's name and picture. After a while I started chatting with me. By the way, I told you about my lie and bad things about my school and blacked out. I gave information to the Hibernian cyber police. The cops took it. He found his IP address and who he was. Of course, we do not know the "eTwinning code of conduct" here, and if we threaten somebody, we need to report the message or contact the National Support Service. Our Ministry .2017 / 12. We have to follow the general rule.

Nieves Méndez

2017-12-03 19:06:09 UTC

Personally, I haven't suffered unpleasant experiences on the net so far. However, I had to report one student's nasty comments on another pupil's wall of the twinspace. It wasn't something too serious but bad language and improper content. I sent a private message for the corresponding teacher to take notice and he immediately sorted it out. Also, I have often seen that students use pictures from the Internet without paying attention to copy right, despite having been told it is against the rules. I always make them delete their post and reread the netiquette code. We all should be very strict in that respect.

Aspazia Olar (Romania)

pazi_2k — 2017-12-03 19:24:56 UTC

I have never been involved in any kind of problems related to social media in relation to bullying... Sometimes on facebook there are content that promotes aggression in several forms. We have always reported such cases on the platform.
My students have learned to ask for help from a teacher or parent in such situations.
I have always promoted among the students: http://oradenet.salvaticopiii.ro/

Alina from Romania

saftaalina — 2017-12-03 20:01:33 UTC

I had some problems with Facebook because my photos were public. This happened a few years ago.A student took some photos and did some comments on YouTube. I contacted them and the posts was deleted.

Daniela Vassallo

2017-12-03 21:37:02 UTC

So far so good, i have never been involved in any online problems but to be fair, i'm always extra careful of what i write and post. One must think before they act because once something is written or posted out there, it's out. If any problems would arise, i would contact the people responsible for that site and tackle it accordingly.

Idoia Zapirain

IdoKM — 2017-12-03 23:08:47 UTC

I haven't been involved in a big incident. I have blocked a couple of random followers on Twitter after checking their profile. ‘Protecting’ the account so that only followers that you approved
could see the content you publish would be a solution if there were big issues.
When using social networking sites with students, instead of giving them just the rules, I think it is useful to discuss and create 'a user agreement' with them to avoid risks.

Aránzazu Iturrioz (Spain)

2017-12-04 01:21:43 UTC

Fortunately, I haven´t been involved in any uncomfortable incident in social media. I use a Twitter account for professional purposes and try not too share private information. I encourage my students to respect netiquette, act with responsibility in the net and ask for help if they´re being bullied. I consider this issue is essential nowadays and parents and teachers should tackle it.
I do appreciate the good advices that other ambassadors have shared here.

Some years ago I received a mail from Facebook congratulating me to start an account and suggesting me to add some more friends. However, I already had a Facebook account, but a person had used one of my mail addresses to create a new account with a different name. In my mail adress my actual name (which is unique) was included so it can't have been a coincidence. The person, who I didn't recognize, didn't have access to my mail so he couldn't confirm or use the account, however, my mail was spammed by friend requests and posts by people I didn't know. I tried to report the incident to Facebook but nothing happened. I also tried to figure out the identity of the person and by looking at images and posts by his friends I assumed he was a teenager in a Swedish city. A couple of years ago the mails stopped coming, but I still don't know who the person is and why he used my email address...

skogsriska — 2017-12-04 07:45:24 UTC

Vittoria Volterrani

2017-12-04 13:06:02 UTC

Fortunately I haven't had big problems about this topic. Only one time I've been contacted by someone who pretended to be someone other asking me to send money to gain more money... Ridicolous... but normal administration.. Obviously spam is a problem, but some good filters can help. I'm only on twitter, so I can't experience the facebook dynamics.

Zuzana Peternai

2017-12-04 13:36:57 UTC

Some years ago one of our students misused our school´s facebook page (used for internal purposes - lost/found, school magazine, meetings, events, etc.): as one of the administrators he deleted all teachers from the page and did not want
to give up administrator´s rights nor he wanted to add any teacher to the group. We had to report it to FB team to delete the page and set up a new page. It was a real issue and we discussed it all over with the other students. We-teachers- were thankful that such policy exists and could solve the problem.

Fortunately I've never experienced any misuse (professionally or personally. I suppose that if it ever happens I would immediately refer to the competent authority. Within the school I would tell the headmaster and a special council would be hold to see which measure should be taken according to the gravity of the facts. Personally I imagine I would do the same (telling the responsible of the app and the police or whatever according to what happened)

gmazue — 2017-12-04 13:41:25 UTC

Géraldine Mazué

Aurelie C- UK

aurelipopot — 2017-12-04 14:28:44 UTC

I have on many occasions reported posts, photos or messages which were offensive, racist or homophobic on twitter or Facebook. Usually the posts were deleted by Twitter but Facebook is much more leniant about what is acceptable or not...
I am an active user of MFL teaching forums (and a moderator) and I had to deal with other teachers being quite rude to someone and making accusations. It is never a nice sitaution but I think it is important that people can feel safe when they use forums or groups...

María José Cayuela from Spain.

mjosecayuela — 2017-12-04 14:39:21 UTC

Fortunately, I have never been involved in cyberbullying, spam or harassment, so far. Once, I had to eliminate some inappropiate comments on the classroom blog and we wrote the netiquettes to remind my students about the way to behave on the net.
The way to interact has changed and sometimes we don't know how to approach this kind of situations.
I always say to my students that in case of suffering cyberbullying or something similar, they must report it and ask for help, so if, some day, I suffered from it, I would do the same: report it and ask for help.
I will phone to the Spanish helpline, (+34 900 116 117) which is free and confidential. They help children, young people, parents, educators and other professionals working how to deal with the different situations to the internet and new technologies.
https://www.is4k.es/
https://www.is4k.es/preguntas-frecuentes

ANA PINA from Potugal

proftic_ana08 — 2017-12-04 15:28:02 UTC

I had some problems with Facebook because my photos were public. This happened one year years ago. A colleague, that were sick took one photo and did some comments on facebook, I contacted his son and the posts was deleted.

I continuous use social network to disseminate the results of my etwinning/erasmus project and I to try be careful with people who I connect and communicate. I always create a close facebook group. The students they also know that they will never post or share their personal information online (including full name, address, telephone number, school name, parents’ names, credit card number, or Social Security number) or their friends’ personal information.

If I will have a problem in the future I will report again and will contact with the police and people who can help me.

From Romania

corinarusz07 — 2017-12-04 16:28:42 UTC

I have encountered a problem. On Facebook wall there is material with inadequate material. We reported the issue and removed from the personal list that shared the post. I understand there was a virus that circulated for almost a few days to almost all subscribers.

Sona Manukyan-ARMENIA

msona76 — 2017-12-04 18:30:32 UTC

Yes,sometimes I got weird messages or invitations or videos or links with a request to open them in Facebook. I found out that these can be spam or some viruses and just deleted them without responding or opening them.

Adriana Rípodas (Spain)

aagudori — 2017-12-04 18:55:50 UTC

As most of you, I have never been involved in any incident. To be honest, I must recognise that I am not very active in these platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube.... so, there are not many opportunities to suffer from spamming, bullying or harassment. The only issue that happened to me was this... I have a professional google account from the Educational Department I am working for. I think someone hacked it because all my contacts received a fishy e-mail that I had not sent. The good news was that nobody gave it credibility because of the strange used language style. Moreover, I could not use my account because it was locked. So, I reported the issue to the Education authorities and they solved the problem (but I do not know how).

seminarai — 2017-12-04 19:15:00 UTC

I had to deal with inappropriate student behavior in social networks, in FB. We all spoke with the specialists and students of the gymnasium and their parents. We discussed bad behavior, causes and consequences. I am currently involved in the activities of safer Internet ambassadors

Romania

valide — 2017-12-04 19:57:25 UTC

I had problems with facebook because I posted student drawings in a contest, and some users made ugly comments. The organizers deleted those comments and the designs were protected.

Veturia Seserman, Romania

sesermanv1 — 2017-12-04 20:10:04 UTC

I have never been involved in any incident. I have a Facebook account and I'm watching my friends list. To communicate with my students' parents I created a Facebook group and I was careful about the settings.
If I have such problems, I will report the abuse.

Darina Kovaličová,Slovakia

kovalicova_d — 2017-12-04 21:49:48 UTC

On Facebook I work in group education. I do not trust the Facebook. Many people share your posts and photos. At one educational event, a teacher from another school forgot to log off from facebook. Student has sent an inappropriate report. We found the author. The problem has been solved with school management. I keep alerting students to publishing their own materials. Also to publish suitable photos to Twinspace in projects and on facebook. I've been giving a strong focus to group photos. I have not reported any inappropriate messages yet. But we've made a video in kizoa made from student presentations on YouTube.The source of the material has been published. Someone reported the inappropriateness of our video. So now we pay more attention to published material.

Anastasiia Sytnik, Dnipro, Ukraine

anastasiia07061 — 2017-12-04 23:07:11 UTC

Once children from our school created a page in social networks which was dedicated to the school gossips. And when I looked through the contents of this page, I was shocked. In this page unsuccessful photos of pupils were exhibited and all were ridiculed above this.

This issue was immediately raised at a disciplinary meeting of our school, we were collected unscheduled parents' meeting about behavior on the Internet, netiquette, children Internet safety. Many lectures were conducted with the students of our school to which law enforcement agencies on cybercrime were invited. And soon this social page was blocked.

I see too often on social networks candid photos, obscene articles and obscenities. In such cases I report this to the support service, so that it immediately blocked. Today, modern Internet browsers contain on their pages a lot of advertising with viruses, including pornographic and our children can see it working on computers. in this case, I would advise you to set protection in your browsers

Mariangela Bielli

mariangela_biel — 2017-12-05 09:03:02 UTC

I haven’t had any issues partly because I am not a fan of social networks and I use FB only for my professional practice. I don’t use it with students.

I always tell my students to be careful and talk with them about the risks and dangers but also about their personal responsibilities.

If I had any issue I think I will report on the site dedicated session first.

Godoroja Rita, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

2017-12-05 11:57:15 UTC

I have no been involved in any online incident when participating in an online community. To avoid such situations I am attentive to the netiquettes. But in the case of cyberbully I will report this to the support service.

Andree Jordan, UK

ajglobalise21c — 2017-12-05 12:54:45 UTC

I have various email accounts for different purposes. I keep one just for shopping so that any spam only goes to this one account. I often receive spam emails and when I do, I click to report it. My other accounts remain, thankfully, spam free.

Gratiela Visan, România

2017-12-05 16:12:15 UTC

I have never been involved in any online incident involving spamming, bullying or harassment when I participated in an online community.
Once happend as a text written by me and posted on educational site to appear in a publication with another author. I contacted the editor of that magazine, but nothing happened. Since then, I have been more careful about what I post and about the sites I visit.
To communicate with the parents of my students I have a closed group on Facebook.
I teach my students about Internet safety.
If I will have a problem in a future I will report to the social media responsable.

JanaT, Germany

roro1 — 2017-12-05 16:19:44 UTC

We once had a girl take the facebook password of a classmate that she somehow managed to find out during a group project when they met at his house. She then changed his password and posted insults to his friends. We had quite a few talks about the incident in class and in the end, she admitted to her mistake. However, she continued to have a difficult time in the class and eventually changed schools.

Maria Cristina Bevilacqu, Italy

2017-12-05 16:42:25 UTC

Italy

emmecibi — 2017-12-05 16:44:19 UTC

I had no particular problem in this field, but I think that information is the key to avoid them, this is why I think that students (and colleagues, as well) should be informed on the risks of surfing the net , in posting photos or personal info, localisations, and so on. Using the Internet in a fair and responsible way should be a competence that every teacher should help students to gain.

Celina Swiebocka, Poland

su_jazgim — 2017-12-05 16:44:25 UTC

I have never been involved in any kind of problems related to social media in relation to bullying...
I usually use eTwinning Live, Facebook and Twitter. I always to try be careful with peaople who I connect and communicate. Before involving students in the projects we accept our own netiquette rules and I always monitor them. We have created a cloze facebook group and at the beginning we also
accept our netiquette rules. My Students know that they will never post or share their personal information online (including full name, address, telephone number, school name, parents’ names, credit card number, or Social Security number) or their friends’ personal information.
I think that if I have a problem in the future I will report it and will contact with the police and people who can help me.

Lucrezia Di Molfetta - Italy

edimol — 2017-12-05 18:19:28 UTC

I have no direct experience of such kind of issues but I'm aware that they are quite common among young people. I always teach my students how to stay safe on the Internet and I'm confident that they can avoid such risks if they know them and if they know how to behave if something wrong happens.

Monika Imos Poland

monikaim — 2017-12-06 11:31:24 UTC

I have not experienced some form of harassment or abuse on social media. However every day, thousands of people have to contend with negative, abusive, insulting, and threatening comments posted on, or linked to, their social media accounts. If the abusive conduct happens on a social site like Facebook or Instagram, it may be possible to notify the site owners. Many social sites now offer the option to block individuals and report spam or abusive comments. If the abuse takes place outside of the social site, but points back to it, it may be possible to alert the owners of that site to the abusive conduct, as well. Another option in the case of cyber-bullying and online harassment is a civil action. Filing a lawsuit it may be the only way to protect one's self in extreme circumstances.
No matter what happens, it is important to take online harassment and cyber-bullying very seriously.

Bad attitude and lack of real communication

nicoletamilitar — 2017-12-06 12:40:13 UTC

There have been numerous cases in which I have noticed people miss behaving towards others. For example, we have a site on which we can post different materials for sharing with other teachers and at one moment there was a teacher who keft some bad comments about me and my materials and my knowledge of our language. I did not understand the problem and I asked him to be more explicit and to help me correct my problem. That was the moment he became more verbally agressive without any other explanation. I contacted the clients support centre and I explained them the situation. They said nothing else but that they would contact him and made sure he would not continue with that attitude. And this is it- I don't get any more messages or comments from him.

No prior contact in eTwinning

nugentg_sbn — 2017-12-06 13:39:20 UTC

I have encountered before in eTwinning where people will ask to be contacts or ask to join a project without any prior communication with me. Normally I ignore to be honest or I send a message saying that I do not have enough information. I have a feeling however that I am not the only person receiving the message. It is hard then to work with the person I feel because they have not respected you enough to contact you before the invitation yet still expect you to accept the project invite.

Don't panic

2017-12-06 17:53:02 UTC

no problems yet, maybe I'm lucky, maybe not... once I wrote an article in my personal website (1999, 2000?) on the crucial need parents have to empower young digital citizens by seamlessly live a 'legal', 'righteous', 'positive', 'socially safe' life online and in our reality that's not disconnected from the pervasive presence of digital media.
I think and live accordingly a cyberlife as ...

Harassment

Fightingmachine — 2017-12-06 18:01:10 UTC

I gained bad experience with a popular on-line play. I was harassed on occasion by men. They wanted to get contact with women. I have blocked the people. The play gave pleasure, but some did not know, how they should behave.

Ineta Lielkalne, Latvia

ainazi_ineta — 2017-12-07 10:02:27 UTC

Girl learns at grade 8 with outstanding achievements. She is also a very active school in everyday life. Other girls hated her for this, rousted and humiliated regularly. Some girls in the class created a Watsapp group to wander the girl. As a classroom tutor, I'm talking about behavior on the Internet. I've come up with other examples and assignments in groups so that students feel:
How would you feel like a victim, personally facing it?
Come in the role of the girls as parents who have noticed the changes in the emotional state of the daughter and will succeed?

Nadia Dabrundashvili, Georgia

nanadabrundashvili1 — 2017-12-07 15:49:23 UTC

I don't have any big problem on eTwinning portal, because almost all members are teachers and they know how to behave to each others, but I have problems on the social networks, where I receive a lot of messages from unknown people and sometimes their name isn't their real names and this is a bit irritating to waste time for consider their messages or comments, I'm Microsoft ambassador and sometimes I suppose they are also Microsoft ambassadors or Microsoft innovative expert educator and I try to be polite towards them, but this takes quite much time to make sure whether they are them who I thought or not.

Graziella Del Tito

gdeltito — 2017-12-07 17:52:05 UTC

I generally don't like on line communities.I've heard about many unpleasant things and I don't want to be involved in unpleasant situations. I've a facebook account but I'm very careful about what I write, I've set many restrictions and I'm very careful about accepting new contacts.
When I'm asked to accept new friends I check who they are and if I know them.
From time to time I get requests/messages from men from the USA, I guess it's because my profile is in English. I never accept their requests.
Like everybody I receive junk mails and I regurlarly block every new sender.
I havn't been involved in any online incident so far, but I can talk about something that happened to a student. She was participating in an on line community for teenagers. A girl who didn't like her started to post very bad comments. The student first told the girl to stop, when she saw that the comments didn't stop she told her parents. They made screeshots of the comments, then they reported the bad behaviour (supported by the screenshots) and the girl was banned.

I´m Here

jasmine22 — 2017-12-07 18:56:59 UTC

There is a FB group in Sweden called "I´m here". Their aim is to make people feel they have support when beeing harassed on FB. So if anyone starts harassing another one, people from the group starts with writing "I´m here" in the thread so both the harassed person and the harasser can notice someone is keeping an eye on what´s going on. The exposed person will feel he/she has support and maybe the harasser will just quit. If not, the supporter will interfere and help the exposed person. This is a bit like the #metoo campaign. If you are many saying no, the offenders will not stand a chance. We need more of these togetherness in the society to be able to stand up against all kind of harassment.
Jasmine Klang Ebeling, Sweden

Amy Coffey, Ireland

2017-12-07 20:45:15 UTC

If I got a message over twitter that I didn't like I'd delete it and block the sender/follower.

Twitter

ronanosullivan7 — 2017-12-07 20:54:06 UTC

I find twitter a very useful online resource. I have my personal twitter account but I also decided to make a school twitter account. It is the school account that we have had some issues with. Some of the posts are by 'Fake' profiles or members. They will retweet or like some post from your account. The content they post is then unacceptable content. This is a very important area as students and teachers can follow our twitter account. However I have found some of the tools quite useful on twitter. You can block these accounts immediately. Also you get options to report or flag the account. You can fill in a report as to why you think the content is unacceptable. It can be used to shut down these accounts. This has solved the problem.
Ronan O' Sullivan,
Ireland.

Adriana Laze Albania

adrianalaze — 2017-12-07 21:46:54 UTC

Yes some years before i was tagged in a video with pornographic content . It was like e virus . She didn't know what had happened . Firstly i couldn't remove the tag , so I asked apologies to m Facebook's friends about what has happened , then i was forced to delete her from my list too.I sent her an message in which I explained my action.

Another time someone had opened an account in my name in Facebook and was inviting all my friends . I reported this case and this new account was closed.

cinzfior — 2017-12-08 06:24:16 UTC

We had a bad situation at school.Someone uploaded inappropriate photos of one of our girl. We, as teachers, we tried to underline the dangers we are exposed on the net and we asked students to work about safer internet during a week, in all the subjects, during a long time.

I use only three social network to disseminate the results of my etwinning project and other international projects.At only one time I was involved in an unpleasant fact! Usually I create a facebook group linked to eTwinning project , a Film with students they have special needs . In the post of this facebook group there was a comment that I didn't see it. but my students saw it. There was a link to a porno site. It was embarassing for me, and I erased my post with the link and I closed the group in the same time as soon.

b_roeder — 2017-12-08 07:49:43 UTC

Now I try to use more and more Twitter . I want to create a school account and I hope this will be helpful and a good way to use social networks
Barbara (Germany

I have checked many times how you can make a misuse of the internet and social networks. I am the head of studies of my Institute and every year I have to face this serious problem. The solution is to make an informative campaign and have zero tolerance to this serious problem. Awareness and prevention are very important. In my institute, each course we organize a conference on Internet security. On this day we discuss our bad experiences, we also invite experts who can inform us about how to solve this problem

roquegago — 2017-12-08 09:26:15 UTC

Veerle De Deckere

veerle_dedeckere — 2017-12-08 09:44:10 UTC

I haven't been involved personally yet in an online incident involving bullying, spamming or harassment. If so, I don't think I would get to sleep at night.
I think that in every school there have been incidents eg posting videos of a teacher in his /her class without his/her knowledge. As far as I know in our school this problem has been solved (video removed) after a face-to-face talk between the students who posted it and the principal.
The only thing you can do in cases of bullying, spamming or harassment is flagging it/report it to the community owner. The last step would be involve the police - in our country the 'computer crime unit' for such cases. As my brother works in this unit, I would certainly talk to him to give advice.

I haven`t got such experience with the networking but at school our teacher had. Someone sent her a spam file and automatically this spam was sent to every her friend in facebook. I think to avoid such problems is very difficult and everybody should know networking rules.

ahadovamatanat2 — 2017-12-08 13:12:02 UTC

Marianna Morgigno. I haven't been involved in this kind of incident. But I know that some students are been involved in bullying. In my school teachers have created some activities to reflect on these problems. For example we have involved our students in a videoconference with a policeman. He talked about different kind of problems for young people on internet. I hope my students say to me all kind of problems they meet on internet, so I can help them

mmorgigno — 2017-12-08 14:02:50 UTC

Céline Lecomte

2017-12-08 14:42:08 UTC

I have not been involved in an online incident, but as many o us, I have heard of people involved in it. I know that all the students of my school who study English as a first foreign language have a chapter about bullying, and then they study cyber-bullying. I tell my students that if they face such a problem they must talk about it to an adult,a nd that a problem that is mentioned as soon as it happened is easier to solve.

Mariangela Bielli

mariangela_biel — 2017-12-08 16:55:14 UTC

Last September the Italian NSS organized a webinar about eSafety open to schools and run by an expert. There was a presentation and the chance for students to ask questions. I took part with one of my classes and it was a great chance for my students. I hope they will continue with this events because they are really useful for students.

I have not been personally involved in an online incident, but I often discuss with my students about the risks of the net. So we always take part in the #Safer Internet Day and through the Italian NSS we had the opportunity to follow a 2 hours webinar with a Postal Police Officer last October. The tips he gave were really interesting and students were impressed by the various examples of the risks they can be prey of. If such an incident should happen to any of my students,I would tell the headteacher and the parents and encourage them to report to the Postal Police.

teresarughi — 2017-12-08 17:33:37 UTC

Some material on esafety I share with my students

Manushak Petrosyan

2017-12-08 17:38:11 UTC

Yes, it’s really very good that there are people who are always there to support us when we have any kind of problems with spamming, bullying or harassment in different web sites while using them. It’s a big problem especially for children who very often carelessly forget about e-safety. I always take my chance to talk with them and remind them not to forget about their privacy on the internet.

I have never experienced any serious problems with the phenomena mentioned above but sometimes I get some messages, invitations, requests, or even videos from people whom I don’t know and I try to avoid opening them, because I know that very often they are some kind of viruses that can break my passwords or my accounts.

I am sometimes afraid of being involved in some online incidents as I use one and the same mail or account in all cases: banking, job, studies, programs, etc… So, maybe I should be careful myself. Its better follow the rules, netiquette of different communities than have any problems. If that happens one day I’ll try to report about the problem as soon as possible.

Nadia Circu

selfy20152017 — 2017-12-08 17:47:46 UTC

I have not been personally involved in an online incident.

It happened to my student who was harassed on the internet.

I thought this was happening can can leave her feeling disbelieved, vulnerable and knock her self-esteem

I advised her, to make a complaint about being bullied online, to copy the terms and conditions which have been breached and take a screenshot of the comment or photo as evidence. This may prompt any of these sites and apps to take action as you have shown them their obligation to investigate and take appropriate action

Patrizia Orazi

2017-12-08 18:12:59 UTC

I have never been involved on an online accident but we often discuss in class about rules, regulations linked to a safe use of the Internet. There are special projects at school to help student to be conscious of the dangers they might face and strict regulations as to the

In case it happened I would report the problem to the head teacher and the police and I would try to help the students recover from any problem the fact might have caused.

Rovena Hoxha

rovena_hoxha — 2017-12-08 21:24:18 UTC

Personally, I have never gone through these unpleasant situations myself. I have never been involved in bullying or cyber bullying neither in spamming or phishing. Mostly I usually use Facebook, eTwinning Live and sometimes Twitter. I always monitor my students and make sure they are aware of the netiquette rules. I never encourage them nor approve for them to post their personal information online ( or their friend’s). A problem I usually faced in the beginning is using photos with watermarks or without paying attention to copy rights. They seem not to face this problem anymore but I make sure never the less they are fully aware of the netiquette code. I also have informed parents about these rules and they all have agreed to monitor their children.

"Present and future"

mgnaus — 2017-12-09 00:40:06 UTC

I've never been involved in such type of situation, however, I'm aware of some situations that have happened either with friends or with students and teachers.
No matter if all social media present their policies/rules,... people, in particular, teenagers, hardly read them, or pay them any attention. This way they become more susceptible to get involved in unpleasant situations; the same happens, some times. with adults (including teachers)...
A simple picture (even without any sort of nudity), a word, a comment... can be a pretext to start an online incident...
If this happened with me, or with a friend, or even with one of my students, firstly, I would try to contact, directly, the person who have started all the confusion... Secondly, if there were no answer, I reported the situation (on edge, also to the police).
When a similar situation happens at school, parents should be also involved on the process of solving the situation.

Najoua Slatnia - Tunisia

NajouaSlatnia — 2017-12-09 12:40:49 UTC

Fortunately I wasn't involved in an online incident involving spamming, bullying or harassment by participating in an online community. Generally I am very careful about what I share and what I like. I always check the sites I use. I don't accept invitations from anonymous accounts. It is important to always check and secure our web browsing. Also, I always try to advise my students on safe use of the internet.

Angela Capezzuto

angilu56 — 2017-12-09 17:12:25 UTC

Hi everybody! Just come back from the land of the colds;) Unfortunately, I was involved in 2 incidents on Internet safety and I'd like to describe it here so you won't fall into the same trap. I uncautiously didn't log out of my facebook account, which I had used to log into an app online in one of my classes, and sorry to say, my students took advantage of this stupidity on my part to send some very unpleasant messages in my account. Fortunately, my followers didn't believe I'd say such things and this incident was solved by changing my password and talking about this to the class involved-it's never happened again. A second case involved a pure case of hate speech directed toward a minority group, in Facebook. I flagged the message and filled in the online form. However, I was answered by the Facebook team that according to them it wasn't really racist (I still don't agree to them!)

Anna Urbasik

2017-12-09 18:30:24 UTC

I haven't been involved in this kind of incident.
But I talk with my young pupils (kids) how to be safe on the Internet.
https://www.wikihow.com/Stay-Safe-on-the-Internet-(for-Kids)

Online bullying

juhaszgyongya — 2017-12-09 18:58:14 UTC

I have never had any form of bullying but there are some steps we can do if we or our students are involved. I would ignore that person and hopefully it would stop. Or I could block unwanted people online. And I always encourage my students to speak about any forms of threatening or bullying. The teachers, parents and friends are supportive people who can help.
Luckily the eTwinning platform is a safe place to cooperate with other people.

Gergana Petrova, Bulgaria

2017-12-09 20:50:15 UTC

In connection with the security of my accounts on the global network, I often change the passwords I use. I have met my students with the levels of information sharing, and I have also discussed with them that they have to assess the information they publish on the social network.

Petrina Blushi , Albania

2017-12-09 21:51:31 UTC

As I remember, I've never been involved in any kind of social media problem with regard to virtual harassment. However, two months ago I had a problem with an email that informed me that my relative with the same surname had lost his life and had left a large sum. I wanted to give my initials and ID numbers credit card. I did not consider this notification, but I immediately deleted the email without answering it. Therefore, I learned that we just have to not respond and not trust those tricks trying to hurt our bank account credit.

Bosnia and Hercegovina

lejla_hujdur — 2017-12-09 22:36:05 UTC

I have never been involved in incidents on Internet safety, but I am aware that it is very important issue, especially for students. That is why before every eTw project I do with my students a workshop about internet safety. Hopefully my students heve high level of awareness concerning internet safety problem.

Mihaela Git, Romania

mihgit — 2017-12-09 23:44:47 UTC

I have never been involved in online bulling or harassment.
However, in my mailbox I still get advertising emails, which I delete without opening them. There have been situations in which I sent email saying that I do not want to receive any more ads and they understand.
In discussions with my students, I'm trying to explain what it means to be safe on the internet. I recommend the site:

Cyberbullying

mariella_zahra1986 — 2017-12-10 08:27:08 UTC

I have never had any form of cyberbullying. However, unfortunately, some of my students have experienced cyberbullying. At school the guidance teachers try and sort it out if it involves bullying between students attending our school. On the other hand, if the case is out of hands, we have a local website where cyberbullying is reported directly to the police cybercrime unit: http://besmartonline.org.mt/

Problems with FB

siwkowskimichal — 2017-12-10 09:44:09 UTC

Unfortunately I have been harrased many times on the Internet: on forums, chats, Facebook or even Youtube. I usually report them to the site's staff or just block them. Unfortunately, these trolls usually have multiple accounts so they need to be reported over and over again till one of us gets bored. Also the time for the staff to respond may take up to a few hours.

Karin Ceder, Sweden

karin_ceder — 2017-12-10 10:00:16 UTC

I often use Facebook and Instagram, mostly for my own privacy.
I have an open Instagram account, and it has happened that I have received followers who offers "sexual service". I have always notified this accounts to Instagram, to alert them that it is inappropriate, and also blocked them from following me. I have received feedback from Instagram, there they thanked me and told me that they have closed this specific accounts.
If it happens again, I'll do the same thing again - report them, notify Instagram and block them!

Juan Carlos Garrido - Spain

juancarlosgh — 2017-12-10 11:46:39 UTC

I have never been involved in harassment, online bullying or spam so far. What I would do in case it would happen is to report or notify the problem faced. And in order to prevent any problem I would carefully read the privacy conditions and policy with our kids so that we would make them aware on how to behave and react. I think it is important also to have the netiquette rules (our own ones as well) very visible in the classroom and revise them frequently so that we don´t forget about it. We as teachers have also the responsibility of pay extra attention to this issue and follow all our students' steps so that we can control deeply this matter.

MONICA CIOBANU-GRUP 6

2017-12-10 16:31:31 UTC

I never had problems with social media because I don't use them a lot. I have a facebook account, but I don't use it very often; Usually, I use palteforms that are safe to work with my students.
If I had problems by using social medias or palteforms at school, I would tell it to my headmaster and to the academic authority. If I had problems with personal accounts, I would change my password at first, and then I would erase the account. With etwnning, I would tell to the NSS.

Tatiana Dragan

2017-12-10 16:53:37 UTC

I have never been involved in an online incident and my students too. We often discuss in class about rules, regulations linked to a safe use of the Internet.
We usually use safety networks as eTwinning Live or Skype.

Tatiana Dragan- Moldova

tatianadragan — 2017-12-10 17:02:00 UTC

Violeta Korkucyte- The UK

violeta7519 — 2017-12-10 18:44:55 UTC

I have never been involved in any online incident with my pupils yet. I have not reported any inappropriate material or behaviour. My pupils are very young (3-5 year olds). I usually use the eTwinning platform for my projects. I am well aware of the eTwinning netiquette. I have never posted any material relating my students' without parental consent. When I publish my students' work/videos I set privacy settings which require a password. If something abusive happened, I would notify the NSS, my head teacher and possibly Local Educational Authority.
Myself I use Facebook for my personal use and Twitter for educational purposes. I never post my personal information online. I use Facebook only for a closed group with strict privacy settings. I use mainly a messenger on Facebook, don't post photos publicly and I am very careful accepting new contacts. If I noticed a spam on my account, I would report to the Facebook and block the abusers. If it is cyberbullying, I would also report to the police.
When using my emails, I delete spam emails without opening them, unsubscribe from unwanted senders. (See below my comments about one of my friend's account being hacked. See a comment to Petrina Blushi's post .)

Aida Lumshi -Albania Trash email or Spam email

alumshi — 2017-12-10 19:03:07 UTC

I can give you from my experience regarding the arrival of spam emails and when they open them, they contain pornographic content or invitations to connect to pornographic sites that are harmful.
I often think that these e-mails contain viruses, one of them open to me, blocking my email page, and new notifications come in to my inbox but come to Trash rubrics.
I often report to sites that have these controls or that I have information, but I know this problem continues today.

Imen Taktak Marzouk (Tunisia)

imen_taktak — 2017-12-10 19:52:18 UTC

I have never been involved in any online incident with my students of pioneer prep school of Sfax Tunisia
I have not reported any inappropriate material or behaviour.
I am well responsible and aware of the eTwinning netiquette and I always use very well the eTwinning platform.
When I post on social networks or on Twinspace projects, I took the parental permission when I post the images or videos of my students.
If I will have a problem in the future on social networks, I will change my password and if the problem will be with eTwinning plateform, I will ask my NSS for help.

Maria Melniciuc, Romania

melniciuc_maria — 2017-12-10 20:18:10 UTC

I have never been involved in online incidents in online communities. One of my students was: some of her personal photos were used by somebody else. She reported the case to the police and the Facebook team was announced too.

Marie Josée THELINEAUgp16 As far I am concernedI have never been involved in any online incident involving spamming, bullying or harassment when participating in an online community. I think I am a user who is aware of pitfalls of the Internet and goes as smoothly as as possible.Had I found any content offensive or inappropriate I would have followed the code of behaviour of the social network and let the incident known by Support Services immediately.May I just tell about a Facebook video my students were showing in the class about one of their school mate being photographed despite her by her boyfriend during an intimate relationship: I immediately warned them about the penalties they would endure as they were sharing privacy data without authorization; I asked them to remove the video on the spot and took them later to the Principal’s who investigated and had the girl’s parents sued the boyfriend.If this would happen again (what I don’t wish),thanks to this module,I would follow the steps of the tools provided by the SUPPORT SERVICE (my students were over 18)

monbrun — 2017-12-10 20:29:36 UTC

I have never been involved in any online incidents. I took part in a PD from the European Schoolnet and I got a lot of information about safety net, Better Internet for Kids (BIK). I saw a film Teddy cam, which I showed also my students and they were shocked (learning unit). During our meeting in KA1 we were working on this topic and created pinwalls for information for the colleagues. Now I take part with my class in a competition about how to use mobile devices safely (learning unit s.above). We made a survey, we were working on netiquette,.... and we will make a little exposition in our school. A lot of material I got from klicksafe. There I got a lot of information what to do and a lot of phone numbers for help.

steinel_schrenk — 2017-12-10 21:30:55 UTC

Annie Bergh, Sweden

2017-12-11 00:10:58 UTC

We have had some incidents in my school, but not directly in my class. I helped my colleague to solve an issue about the program called Movie planet where her students abused each other online and then the conficts deepend when they met in school. It was an awful situation. The students thought it was ok and so easy to say hurtful things onlineen you could not see the reaction of the other one. WE involved the parents, looked at what had been written (not who wrote what) and how it would feel to hear someone say that, to say that to someone and the difference between saying and Writing. We worked hard, we involved also my class in this and they got to dramatize it and work with it and then we also got the students involved to talk to each other. Interesting now that I see it all written down like this how Everything is analogue and not digital - this I must Think about - could we have dome it different or more efficient if we would have done it with the computers?

Liana Karapetyan, Armenia

liankarapetyan — 2017-12-11 10:46:08 UTC

I have not encountered any serious online incidents, maybe it is due to the fact that I try to follow the rules of e-safety as much as possible. Sometimes I may come across some spamming or inappropriate material on social media, I usually report them. I think we must not only follow the rules of e-safety but , which is even more important to me, we must teach our pupils how to be safe while using internet. In today's world it is a real challenge to keep children safe in the online community. They must be taught how to overcome any spamming, bullying or harassment they come across.

Netiquette, Maja Videnovic

maja_informatik — 2017-12-11 14:03:53 UTC

I have never been involved in online incident when participating in online community. But as an ICT teacher I have conducted a lot of discussions, presentations and workshops with my students on these theme. There are a lot of examples that students talk about, share and learn from them. I suggest them that they should always report any kind of abuse and should talk with someone else (to ask for help). Very interesting topic, popular among students that raise their interest and active participation. Only by education on the subject they will be able to protect themself

Mari Carmen Martnez

teachermc — 2017-12-11 18:46:34 UTC

I haven´t never been involved in any online incident and if I have this kind of problem in the future is because I don´t follow the rules that up to now are giving us good results to avoid these problems.

Some of these rules are: avoid using programmes that require children´s login and use only those that let you to control what they do by creating only username and of course…the most important is to give parents childen´s data in the different tools used in classroom.

And if they need to have their account first of all I ask parent´s permission and I explain that rules on the Web are similiar to every day´s rules.

I hope in the future not to have any kind of problem with kids.

Raminta Birgeliene, Lithuania

ramintabirgeliene — 2017-12-11 21:53:16 UTC

Usually, I use platforms that are safe to work with my students: TwinSpace. When I make a video, I use "unlisted" so that only those who have the link can watch it. We have clear rules about images with students. So it is better to make things properly.
If I have problems by using social medias or platforms at school, I tell it to my headmaster. If I have problems with personal accounts, I will change my password at first, and then I will erase the account. For eTwinning, I will tell to the NSS.

chemingui firas Nabeul , Tunisia

cheminguifiras1966 — 2017-12-11 22:25:50 UTC

I haven't been involved in any kind of incident such as spamming, bullying or harassment through internet. So , without waiting to be victim one day to such kind of incidents , i suggest emphasizing on the main rules to stay safe on line , starting from my students , then my school to finish awaring the civilian society about these rules.

For that reason, we have to teach ourselves, our students our workmates and parents on the main rules of the netiquette, as the real fence to avoid such incidents.

Before presenting these guidelines, I will try to tell you a story that happened on the internet, brought by my one of my students in our actual eTwinning project.
https://coggle.it/diagram/Wi8Ci5lx9wABSsqy

Adriana Lefter, Romania

lefteradriana — 2017-12-12 15:26:15 UTC

Fortunatelly I haven`t been involved in any kind of spamming, bulling in online community.
Last year I coordinate in my school an activity called Esafety school! in a national project. National coordinator sand us materials ans I presents rto all my colegues, My colegues present all videos to all students from our school, amke exercises of esafety and after they prepared drawing, poster, and we make a floasmob to inform parents that we know to be in safe on internet. In this contest we ger second national prize.

Ana Isabel García Espina- Asturias, Spain

anabel_school2 — 2017-12-12 18:36:35 UTC

The truth is I have been very lucky and have not been involved myself although I have had to talk to some students , very young students, who didn,'t seem to be very aware of how harmful their comments could be if shared using WhatsApp or things like that. Fortunately, everything went always right, I think they understood and grew up a bit more conscious of what they were uploading.

Moisés García, España

2017-12-12 19:21:19 UTC

I was involved in an incident among students about bulling and threats through wassap. A student received threats from other classmates and decided to upload a video on youtoube with images recorded in the Institute saying that in our Center there were cases of bulling and that teachers did nothing.
A colleague of mine showed me the video and I brought it to the attention of the Director and the Head of Studies, who took the appropriate measures.

Francesca Mancini Italy

2017-12-13 05:04:36 UTC

Spam inundation on Twitter. Three years ago an emergent Italian political party I won’t mention here used quite largely the net to spread their political creed and as a consequence many people voiced their protest against the widespread of this through Social Networks and especially on Twitter.

I entered a discussion using a successful hashtag and I was literally inundated of spam hashtags I would say hundred thousands automatically generated tweets with malicious content. I got worried about that and I reported to the Police the incident. I was advised not to use Twitter for some time and for this reason I got somewhat disappointed and I still do not use this Social Network. In such cases even Police is not able to cope with cyber attacks and there’s not much private citizens can do

Milica Andonovic

milicas74 — 2017-12-13 05:56:35 UTC

I have never experienced bullying or harassment online. I try to use safe platforms and respect the rules of netiquette. I also have workshops with my pupils to inform them about safe Internet use. In our last etwinning project we had a topic Digital citizens within which we dealt with netiquette. We have mentioned various cases of bullying and spamming so they are well acquainted with it.

María Luisa March. SPAIN

2017-12-13 09:06:55 UTC

SPAMMING!!!!
I usually use a lot facebook community. From time to time, I get notifications of pages that I'm not interested in. Then I go to the label where I make disappear this type of spam that appears without being expressly requesting it by me. When "they" ¿? ask me why I make it disappear, I indicate that this information is NOT RELEVANT to me or INAPPROPRIATE.
At school, also we have had some cyberbullying episodes. To prevent cyberbullying and also to detect it, I prepare some lessons for teachers and students and we work together during the second term in the classrooms.
When we ask for some works, presentations and so on, we talk about netiquettes and copyright, giving rules how we should work online.

Elena Carmen Coviza-Romania

carmencoviza — 2017-12-13 15:27:24 UTC

I have never experienced any negative interactions, but if I would have, I would respect the Netiquette. I would tell the NSS for eTwinning and I would tell the people responsible with the Internet security. Also, I really disapprove with the bullying, the nonsense discussions on forums and I strongly support the intellectual and copyright rights.

I have never experience bullying or harassment online.If something happened in the future I will respect the rule of netiquette and I will took the appropriate measures. Our students must be good inform about bullying or harassment, because they are often on the net.Together we have to learn about safe internet use.

gilievska21 — 2017-12-13 19:24:31 UTC

Gabriela Stojanovska-Macedonia

Hale Ekim

2017-12-13 21:07:28 UTC

I have never experience bullying or harassment online.I will respect the netiquette and inform my students how to use internet correctly.

Imen Tekaya , Tunisia

imen_tekaya — 2017-12-14 07:08:42 UTC

I have seen something very dangerous 3 years ago! As a computer science teacher , while teaching the Unit3 : Internet I started to talk about netethics, bullying and bad things that could happen with their activity online , the next session a group of pupils 7th grade (11- 13 years old) approched me and said that they are achamed to show me something but as said and asked from them before to report any strange behaviour to a trustfull grown up person , they showed me someone who send them and to their friends of the same age invitation request under a female vieled girl and engage with them in discussions and ask from them innapprioriate things and send them videos with porno content and they indeed opened me their messages and showed me ! and I was horrified and started shaking , really I was traumatised! As this incident was very very dangerous and kids was afraid to say it to any growing up even and our mentality and society is going hard on them , they asked me for discression which I did till now ! I think this is the first time I m speaking of publicly. So, What have I done ! I spent many sessions showing them how to report any abuse on facebook , how to block these people, confidentiality, how to hide or make private their friends lists so this predator don't target their friends , I have asked from them to report this fake facebook profile, I asked them to spread the word and to ask their friend to come to me with any of this kind of incident , indeed the nember of pupils targeted by this predator was very very high more than I could ever imagine, but they were very afraid of the scandal, so I was discret I reported this individu to police , it happened that it was not a girl , it was a mid 40's years old men who tried to hide his pedophily behind pretending to be a man of relion and he have done the same thing with other pupils from other school from the capitol, fortunatly he was fastly captured and things was settled down.
but I never wanted or thought I would talk about cyber sexual predators to 7th grade children and was really afraid but I had to for many sessions I had to show them how important not to show their pictures on social media or their life pattern , or their friends etc we talked much about cyber ethics and how to counter this kind of incidents. They never been more quiet and more involved and more participative to talk about their personal experiences online! I assure you , I was shokced and very happy I had their trust, They just have spoke about wooow so many things , especially bullying which I had to address with much genuinity, because bullyers are among them , we massively participated in the Share heart , the safer Internet Day.
So every year I make sure to speak openly with my students about these topics to see if any thing occuring. It's not accepted by our community to speak about these topics but I feel like I have no choice!

Zsuzsa Fekete Hungary

2017-12-14 09:07:16 UTC

Some years ago in my class (16 year-olds) there was a girl who wasn’t really popular because she was bossy, a bit aggressive, the kind of person who knows things better than anybody else. The boys in the class decided to play a trick on her to make her kinder but they chose a very stupid and dangerous way. They created a Facebook profile of an unreal young man and started to send this girl love messages. The girl took it seriously and started to exchange letters with him and asked the young man to meet her. At that moment our boys frightened and understood that it is not a joke anymore and told me and one of my colleagues everything. We solved the case with the help of the parents, the psychologist of the school and an Internet security expert. I am sure nobody of us will forget this case.

Christiane Brieger

brieger — 2017-12-14 11:51:48 UTC

I have never been involved in any online incident involving spamming, bullying or harassment on an online platform. It can be because I am not very active on such communities as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat. I have got a Facebook and Twitter account because I do believe that it is important to know how these platforms are used. I have never had to report any inappropriate material or behaviour so far. If I discovered any, I would react at once, report them and make sure the people responsible for them would be prevented from doing any harm to anyone. In my opinion, it is crucial to react at once at such behaviour to protect the youth. Young people are growing, using the new technology. It important not only to prevent them from the dangers they may encounter with it, but also to make them aware of these dangers and their effects and to offer solutions how to act and react in case of inappropriate behaviour . It is our teacher’s job, when running a project with digital tools to make the students aware of the rules and codex of behaviour of the community they join. This is not only true for Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram or Twitter, but also for eTwinning

Spasija Neshkoska Cuculeska

spa_neshko — 2017-12-15 14:54:25 UTC

I personally experienced it during the process of introduction on a FB group during an online course, when I introduced myself as coming from Macedonia instead of FYROM . In a matter of minutes I was under the attack with posts and comments of harsh language and that did not stop even after my apology and deleting of the post and not even after the mild interference of the administrator. My last option was to block the couple of participants in order to stop their constant comments.I decided not to proceed with the complaint, because, as I mentioned to my harsh colleagues back than, it was neither the time nor the place to solve and resolve political issues.
However, I would have appreciated stronger involvement and support from the administrator and course provider.

Paola Cascione, Italy

2017-12-15 17:15:59 UTC

I have never been involved in any online incident involving spamming, bullying or harassment when participating in an online community. I hope it never happens, but if it happened in the future, I would report it to the social medias' manager or to the competent authorities.

Zuhal ÖZBAY/ TURKEY

zuhalozbay1912 — 2017-12-15 18:04:07 UTC

I haven't experience of such kind of issues but I know that they are quite common among young people. At school we try to teach students how to stay safe on the Internet and I'm confident that they can avoid such risks if they know them and if they know how to behave if something wrong happens.

Grazina Likpetriene, Lithuania

2017-12-15 22:07:13 UTC

1. I create a lot of videos with my students, but I make unlisted videos and playlists and share with my partners with the link.
2. Very often people ask for a contact or invite me to participate in a project and normally I reject them. Because I think they should be write me message in first and present idea.

Dora Pereira, Portugal

2017-12-15 23:37:53 UTC

A long time ago, when we use to use msn messeger to chat with those who were far away from us, one colegue of mine came to me and laughting asked me where i took my perfil picture. I said it was just me and she insist and told that it was a very hot picture! Then she logged on and we realised that my account was codded to answer in a very bad way to my contacts. I send information about that to my friends using other ways and canceled the account, reporting it to the email provider.

Simone Bionda

biondasimone — 2017-12-16 12:39:36 UTC

I've never been involved in any problem like that. Despite that I always try to share a Netiquette with my students when working in a social environment.
As it was underlined recently by some colleagues during a webinar there are some What'sApp groups involving parents where some sort indirect bullying is done by adults by simply commenting or criticizing families, teachers or students. That is a big issue.

Bullying

z_skultety — 2017-12-16 18:35:42 UTC

Three years ago my boys took photos of the girls, they drew different body parts on them and uploaded the photos on a Fb group. I talked to them face-to-face, our deputy principal did the same, our principal did the same. We talked about Netiquette, about the accepted behaviour for hours, a psychologist joined my lessons. At the end some boys left our class, ans so did some girls. :(

Edyta Bieniek

edytabie — 2017-12-17 14:36:20 UTC

In our school at the beginning of each school year there is a meeting with policemen who talk about the safe use of the Internet. There is one meeting for students and one for parents and teachers. Policemen show eg. dangerous situations, pay attention to the content of entries and to conversations with strangers. Moreover, parents sign declarations for the publication of photographs and video. So parents and students should be aware of using the Internet.
I've never been involved in any problem. If it happens, I'll change password, inform the police or other people who are responsible for that.

Vilija Susisnkiene

2017-12-17 17:31:11 UTC

Some students from my school was involved in problems like that.We organised more discutions ,presentations for students and for parents. This year we are organised one sesion for theachers.

Brunella Lanciotti

brulancio — 2017-12-18 18:36:52 UTC

I have had some problems with my e.mail account with unwanted emails from my account to other addresses. I have fixed it by changing the password.
I had a problem, as an ambassador, early this year when a new member asked for my help as she felt she received too many messages with weird content from an etwinning member. I turned to my NSS and we solved the problem.

Paola Lavinio

paola_lavinio — 2017-12-18 19:56:52 UTC

Hate speech -During my first eTwinning experience, a student of mine used the TS to insult another student. It was so unpleasant. I had to call his parents and a disciplinary note followed. Since that experience, I have always dedicated some lessons to share etwinning Netiquette.

Darina Poljak

darina_padina — 2017-12-18 20:10:35 UTC

I know a few experiences from my students, because they have emails, so sometimes they got inappropriate material. But we often talk about bullying, so they know that all issues they can say their parents or their teachers. Last year my class was involved in project "Five safe fingers" (http://bit.ly/2CZPTUK) and we were talking about all kinds of bullying.

Also, my students had problems with ASK.FM social network, and we all together with their parents were talking about it.

Milena Ignjatova

mmiilleennaa — 2017-12-19 05:25:10 UTC

Few years ago some students took picture of my colleague, without permission and upload it on facebook. The teacher was doing nothing wrong but never the less there were a lot of bad and rude comments on the picture. When we realized what happened we talked with the student and student’s parents to make them aware of the consequences of this action. Also, we organized a lot of presentation about this issue in front of the other students and parents.

Elaine Manton

emanton — 2017-12-19 23:51:18 UTC

A while ago, in a different school to the one I am in now, i dealt with some nasty comments about a student. I was made aware of sites too promoting eating disorders and also encouraging people to commit suicide. Luckily we have great staff training and I feel equipped to know how to deal with these issues.
These incidents are difficult for Parents to undertand and deal with.
Reporting it is important and ensuring you fully follow your schools guidelines to ensure you protect yourself as a teacher too.

Ketevan Kobakhidze

katekobakhidze15 — 2017-12-20 05:37:33 UTC

I can say that I have never experienced any bullying or in any other online incidents, so I cannot write anything about it, but it is nice to read about others' experiences

Oriane Vetter

2017-12-20 16:53:06 UTC

I once organised a "vote" on tricider and had to deal with students who posted ridiculous comments. Nothing mean but just totally inapporpriate. When I had to do the same activity with the next group, I first had my students take a "netiquette" test on proper behaviour (no capitals, no racist comments, no !!!) and only then did they receive the access to the tricider link. Things ran much smoother the second time.

Gergana Petrova, Bulgaria

2017-12-20 20:52:44 UTC

In my work, I seek to use content with verified content and direct my students to work in protected virtual environments. Too much inappropriate information spreads over the global network. Often, I and my students have had to block contacts in social networks.

Ionela Lazea, Romania

kameeliah16bis — 2017-12-20 21:10:39 UTC

I am a kindergarten teacher, so in my line of work I don't see this kind of behaviour in the class. On line, because of their age, my pupils are not involved in communities which could put them at harms way. I can only speak from my personal experience. I can say that I have received quite a lot of spam mail, like everybody else, or targeted advertising in the websites that I enter, but you can learn to avoid that by adding filters or blocking some addresses in the mail. However, this year I received a friend request on Facebook by a person that had stolen my identity. The profile had a few of my pictures and my name written in different order. I reported it to Facebook ad in a day they erased that account.

Ümit YEL,Turkey

umityel — 2017-12-21 00:13:31 UTC

I haven't had experienced about bullying or online spamming.But I have seen many inappropriate contents on facebook and reported them.

Ofeliya Gafarova

ofeliyagafarova1 — 2017-12-22 19:17:16 UTC

I never encountered bullying or harassment on the Internet. If something happens in the future, I will respect the rule of consequence and I will take appropriate action. Our pupils are often informed of intimidation or harassment as they enter the internet. Together we should learn about the safe use of the internet.

LIA DI MENCO,Italy

lia_dimenco — 2017-12-22 20:33:20 UTC

I have never had any bad experience using the net for teaching purposes, because I have always looked for e-safety. Nonetheless, I have seen some attached files from Google that contained SPAM information. When you pick a free image from Google, maybe someone may use it to carry inappropriate material or to infect the images with viruses. Actually viruses travel through the net just together with attached images or links to websites.
I think that we should get good protection from viruses and reinforce the firewall of our computers. We have to keep our computers clean and make them free from SPAM mail

Olgica Bajaldzieva

pparsov — 2017-12-23 10:02:04 UTC

I haven't had experienced about bullying or online spamming.
I know a few experiences from my students, because they have emails, so sometimes they got inappropriate material. But we often talk about bullying, so they know that all issues they can say their parents or their teachers.

Padlet

kathrinzdarsky — 2017-12-25 07:48:21 UTC

Padlet is the best tool using with elementary school chhildren. it is an very easy to use application. With the help of QR-Code it is possible to get access to the rigtht padlet.
I already used it for collection of information to certain topics in geography or history. It is useful for every lesson in my opinion.
I also used it for presentations to teacher colleagues. Since there is the possibility to print out all pins or save them as pdf- audience has a kind of handout. If audience has an own account to padlet there is the possibility to copy the own padlet and edit it for your own.
I love this tool!

Concerning involving spamming, bullying or harassment I have to say, that I have not made any bad experiences, wheter by myself nor with children in school. We try to hardly work with "safer internet" to protect children as good as possible, but parents have to be informed as well. I think there has to be done a lot of protection too. Mainly they are autodidactics in using ICT and they don't know which dangers and possibilities are given by using smartphones, computers or other device.
We invided a professionist concerning safer internet and had a meeting with parents. But there have been too less parents being interested in this topic, but I think everyone has to be interested in it!

Ester Campodonico

ester_campodonico — 2017-12-25 21:24:05 UTC

I’m not on social network as Facebook, Twitter and so on, so I’ve never had problems with bullying or others. In case I had I would report immediately. But I have problems with spamming and fishing on my private @. And once I had a problem in the classroom. I looked for some video about the English alphabet for children and I found a link on a school website. But when I clicked to see the video a very unpleasant porno video appeared. I felt really bad and I could realize how tricky is Internet... Couple of times I assisted to conferences held by the Postal/mail police where they said how easy and often young people do/see whatever they like on Internet and parents have no idea about that. For them everything is easy and normal. It’s hard to cope with all that.

Maria Antoinette Magro (Malta

mantmagro — 2017-12-26 15:37:35 UTC

I have never experienced bullying but I know people who have been victims. If this ever happens to me, I will surely take action or ask for help to solve this matter especially if children are involved. We have often talked about this at school and we are teaching children to be aware of this hazard and talk to a family member or school staff if they experience bullying, harassment or receive inappropriate material.

Marcel Prievozník

prievoznik — 2017-12-26 19:06:24 UTC

Luckily, I've never been attacked or involved in any online incident. Howerver our webpage was hacked by some hackers. I am the webmaster, so I had to fix out all the problems. Fortunatelly, the hackers were very friendly and alerted us to protect our login page more carefully.

The netiquette is very important nowadays. Thanks the eTwinning program I have known better the rules and first time I have thougth about them siriously. I can understand more the meaning of it much better. I have never been involved in any problem with social media or bullying. If it happens, I know what should I do or who should I tell about the situation. I can change password, inform the police, or other people who can help with eSafety. I saw pages with contact in my country where I can receive any help if I need. I enriched my knowledge about the sources of eSafety topic during SID 2017 - last February and now in the module D of that course for eTwinning ambassadors I could make my knowledge deeper. I read the posts on this padlet from expirienced teachers who were involved in difficult situations and now I know that talking about that topic is very essencial activity with young students from the early years. Thanks a lot for all participants!

awujcik — 2017-12-27 15:14:12 UTC

Carmine Iannicelli

2017-12-28 00:52:20 UTC

I have never had strong negative experiences by using the net for educational purposes, because I have always taken care of e-safety. It is a good idea to have good virus protection and to reinforce our computers' firewalls. But I had a hacker attack a few months ago through phishing: I lost some of the data that I keep encrypted, but unusable. Attention is never enough.

Maria O Donovan

mariaodonovan84 — 2017-12-28 11:30:19 UTC

Nequitte is very important these days . Personally I have never encountered any incident on social media but I have definitely been subjected to spamming and physhing through email. In the school setting we have encountered a number of bullying incidents through Snapchat and Facebook. We held a day of workshops for all pupils highlighting the importance of being responsible online, how what is perceived through social media online is not always the reality, how their digital footprints are created and how to respond to any incidents of bullying. The workshop was a great success and an eye-opener for all students.

Katarzyna Stępczynska

stepczynska — 2017-12-28 21:50:15 UTC

I have never had negative incident in internet, but one of my student had. It was 2 years ago and she was 13. She and her friends had a party with alkohol. She got drunk and one boy took her photo. She wore only a bra and jeans. The boy put the photo on FaceBook and send information about it to another friends. Information about it accessed to teachers. We had special meetings with parents and students. She was talking witch school psychologist. Since then we have had regular lessons about savety in internet, for example in our after school club we use www.sieciaki.pl platform every week. On this platform children can see films, cartoons and do some exercises about safety in internet.

Marija Varsamis Simonovska

marija_varsamis — 2017-12-28 23:41:37 UTC

The netiquette is something that everyone should be familiar with:"All conventions of decorum in use on the Internet". That's why we should respect the rules of right use of Internet, not just in our classroom, but also in our private lives.We believe in freedom of expression and open dialogue, but that means little as an underlying philosophy if voices are silenced because people are afraid to speak up. In order to ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs, we prohibit behavior that crosses the line into abuse, including behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user’s voice.

Context matters when evaluating for abusive behavior and determining appropriate enforcement actions.Luckily, I haven't got such an unpleasant experience till now.

Jolanta Gradowska

jola_gradowska — 2017-12-30 20:32:40 UTC

I was - by accident - involved in one quite negative incident, where my students were chatting online with each other in a very impolite way. I contacted parents, guidance counselor and the headteacher. Together we solved the problem . The class had extra lessons with the counselor and with me. The students directly involved in that situation had special meetings with me, parents and counselor. All of us tried to learn from this bad situation and tried to find some extra tools and ways to prevent such situations in the future.

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