"Keep It Private Keep It Safe"

A trip into safety online.

    St. Paul Interparochial School's Computer Club has partnered together with a school from Lithuania and entered the Safer Internet Day Blogathon Competition.  We chose the title "Keep It Private Keep It Safe" because we are focusing on e-safety and e-privacy issues. This topic was chosen because kids our age are experiencing the internet generation. We think kids should be more aware of what can happen if you start to give out personal information. We have received a fifth grade class in Lithuania as our partner for this contest.  There will be 4 winners, each winning $1950.60 USD worth of equipment for that school.  We are hoping we will win to improve our already great computer lab.  The contest begins on February 6th, 2007.  The computer club meets once a week to help work on this project.  We are working our hardest to win this contest, and we might just do so!!

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, two members of the computer club, Thomas S. and Thomas P.,  and a guest member, Nick, enjoyed speaking to two Lithuanian children who attend the "Kaunas Zibury's Secondary School" and are partnered with us in this competition. With the help of their teachers, Nijole and Daiva, the children questioned each other on the happenings in each others school.  We found out that the children are in the "Fifth Form" or 5th grade and 11 years old. Their favorite game to play at recess is handball. They all walk to school and are in school for five hours. In the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade their school day is extended to six and a half hours.  Lithuania is a catholic country, but the students can chose their religion lessons.  The students require interpreters because they are not very fluent in their English.  Below is a list of Computer club members and the different projects they worked on for the competition.

 

PowerPoint Slideshow Movie Posters Web Page
Madeline Peter Marie T.J.P.
Carolyn T.J.S. Charlotte Dan
Bartosz Ryan Jeff Bartosz
Tim Ann Marie Nick  
Matt Andy    
  Matthew    

Crossing Borders - A School Partnership Project for Safer Internet Day
February 1-6th,  2007

 
What is the Safer Internet Day Blogathon Competition?
It is an annual event that begins on Safer Internet Day. It will start on February 6th, 2007. Postings on the blog start on February 1st and carry on until February 6th, when the blogathon goes live. For the following week, until February 13th, the blog is open for comments.

Who can enter?
Students aged up to 18. You will need to work with a teacher and a partner school from any of the 28 following Insafe countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America.

What is the task?
The task for participating students is to prepare awareness materials focusing on the chosen theme. During the project, you will reflect on e-privacy, netiquette or images, and look at how they work in public virtual spaces (social-networking sites). Students should be supervised and coordinated by at least one teacher per group. One school in the partnership, the "leader" school will register the team for the competition and be responsible for posting the project outcome in the blogathon. Upon registration, you will receive instructions for uploading your work to the blogathon.

How can i-SAFE help?
As your students work with their partner school keep in mind that i-SAFE already has numerous student activities/lessons ready to use. We have student activity lessons for posters, brochures, public service announcements, etc. that can all be adapted for this competition.
i-SAFE's service learning lessons, K-12 curriculum and certified mentor training lessons are great places to start!

Prizes
4 teams will receive prizes. There is one prize per theme and one prize for the most innovative entry. Prizes will be tailor-made to the needs of your school: hardware, software, broadband access...

Registration
Pairs of schools that wish to participate to the competition have to register until November 30th 2006, by filling in the entry form available on www.saferinternet.org
Remember:</ B> ALL teams participating in the contest must be registered with Insafe by their "leader" school.

Deadline
Your team must register by 30th November. You can work on the project until the beginning of February 2007. You must post your project outcome on the Safer Internet Day (SID) 2007 blogathon between February 1st and 6th. The blogathon will go live on February 6th at 11.00 CET (Central European Time).

Contacts & Support
Please contact the Insafe team at: info-insafe@eun.org for further information about the competition.


 
For more information on the Safer Internet Day 2007 competition:
http:// www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/events/sidfaqs.htm