INTERNET SAFETY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND BLOGGING

Introduction to

Best advise!

Internet and

computer use

Internet safety and

security

Social media

Blogging

What do you already know? What do you want to know?

THE INTERNETSection 1

The difference between the Internet and the Web

What is the Internet?

The Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected computer networks.

What is the Web aka World Wide Web or WWW or W3?

The Web is the user part of the Internet.

The Internet and the Web work together but are not the same thing. The Internet provides the structure that the Web uses to offer content like websites, documents, media, email, etc.

The internet is like a super highway with lots of (web)

traffic moving really quickly.

Technologies are the practical application of scientific knowledge.

These are all examples of technologies. Some are transportation technologies, some are communication technology. They are all thinks people have invented that can be used to do do “stuff”.

TechnologyRoadways Internet

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BEING SAFE ONLINESection 1

Buckle up, wear a helmet, stay in your own lane, shoulder check, know the rules,

watch out for the other guy!

Basic Online Safety and Security

• Use a strong password on all your online accounts.• Keep you passwords safe and don’t reuse them on

multiple accounts.• Be aware of how much personal information you

include in the profile section of your online accounts. Less is better for children and youth.

• Treat the online world as if it was a big mall.• Don’t do anything online that you wouldn’t do in

public or that your mom wouldn't approve of.

Safety

Digital identit

y

Everything you do on the Internet leaves a digital

footprint that becomes part of your digital identity.

No idea?!

I have a digital identity that I have chosen and that I control.

Google yourself, your friends or family members and see what shows up.

Balancing Identity and Safety

Digital Identity

Employers are checking online

Professionals are expected to have an online presence

Online Safety

It’s easier than ever to find people online

If people know where you are online it’s easier to find you offline

Age and Digital Identity• If you are an adult it’s up to you to manage and control your digital

identity.• You should own your name if you can. • Register your name as a domain even if you don’t want a website.• Google yourself and see what shows up.• Bing yourself and see what shows up there.• If you find pictures or posts that don’t represent who you are now

- you have some work to do.• Great how to article on how to bury embarrassing search results -

http://lifehacker.com/5850288/how-to-fix-internet-embarrassments-and-improve-your-online-reputation

Age and Digital Identity

• If you are a teenager you can also manage and control you online identity.

• Use the privacy setting that are available for most social networks so that only trusted people can access and re-share your posts and pictures.

• Consider having two identities - 1 for your life as a teen and 1 to prepare you for being an adult.

• Keep your real name sacred because some day - soon - it will matter.

• Try to own your real name where ever you can, even if you don’t use it. Ex: Get your real name in Gmail if it’s available.

Age and Digital Identity

• If you are a child your caregivers should be helping you manage your digital identity in ways that keep you safe.

• The Internet is like a busy highway and you shouldn’t be playing there alone.

• Parent can set up safe areas for children to use the internet.• On home computers each person can have their own desktop

and user account and in each of those safety settings including parental controls can and should be managed by an adult.

• On public and school computers children should be monitored and safe practices taught and reinforced.

How to set up safe places for kids• http://lifehacker.com/5946947/how-can-i-kid+proof-my-pc-and-gadgets

• http://idiotsguides.com/static/quickguides/computertechnology/how-to-set-up-accounts-and-passwords-on-windows-8.html

• http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-a-separate-mac-account-for-each-chil.html

• http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/apple/3422580/how-set-up-ipad-or-ipod-touch-for-kids/

http://www.safesearchkids.com/

Privacy settings

https://www.facebook.com/help/

http://pinterest.com/pin/67342956901239395/

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/11/a-must-have-classroom-poster-about.html

http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/kids-enfants/safety-internet-securite/privacy-confidentialite-eng.php

Safety and SecurityInternet Safety

Internet safety is about keeping yourself and your family safe online. Issues like online privacy, bullying, vicarious trauma and cyber stalking are topics that relate to Internet Safety.

Internet Security

Internet security is about keeping your computer (or computer network) safe from viruses, phishing, spyware and malware as well as keeping your personal data like your login or banking passwords safe.

The next slide has some great websites with information about all of these.

Resources:

http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/net_safety.html

http://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/index-eng.aspx

http://www.protectyourdata.ca/

Internet safety games for children:

http://pbskids.org/webonauts/

http://www.att.com/Common/images/safety/game.html

http://www.kidscomjr.com/games/safety/safety.html Has audio so is better for younger children who struggle with lots of reading.

http://www.netsmartzkids.org/AdventureGames/TheInternetSafetyGame

Internet safety and security videos, games and resources for all ages:

http://www.onguardonline.gov/media

https://sites.google.com/site/cybersafetygames/

http://kids.usa.gov/teens-home/play-games/online-safety/index.shtml

SOCIAL NETWORKSAbout

Neural Networks in your brain.

Social Network on LinkedIn.

We are all Connected

The following 18 slides are from Connected - The Surprising Power of How Our

Social Networks Shape our Liveshttp://connectedthebook.com/

You don’t have to know this but it helps!

Dyads agglomerate to form

large interconnected webs

The simplest network is a dyad or pair

Node = a person

Line = a relationship between two people

“embedded”: the degree to which a person is connected within a network

more embedded = central

less embedded = periphery

Linear

Mutual ties (flow in both directions)

The Bucket Brigade

Photo from FEMA

Information is directional (inbound and outbound ties)

The Telephone Tree

Creates cascade effect

Reduces number of steps

Squad is more intra-connected

than inter-connected with other squads

The Military SquadTightly interconnected groups

Two-way tie between all members of squad

TermsA Social Network: consists of all the connections and ties within a group or collection of groups

A group is a collection of individuals defined by a common attribute (it need not contain information about

connections)

TermsThe Shape of a network = its “structure” or “topology”

Terms• Contagion: what flows across ties (germs, money, violence, fashions, organs, happiness, obesity, etc.)• Connection:

who is connected to whom (ties to family, friends, co-workers, etc.)• Homophily:

the tendency to associate with people who resemble ourselves

(“love of being alike”)

We shape our network1. We determine structure of our network:

how many people we are connected to

The average American has 4 close social contacts known as their

“core discussion network”

The same number of people can be arranged and connected in different ways, and have different topologies

We shape our network

2. We influence the density of interconnections between friends and family

we introduce friends from separate groups to one another

We shape our network

3. We control how “central” we are within the social network

Are you the life of the party?

Or the wall flower?

TransitivityTransitivity: a relationship is transitive when all those involved know each other (form a triangle)

Those with high transitivity (e.g. person A) are deeply embedded within a single group

Those with low transitivity (e.g., person B) act as a bridge between different groups, connected with people

who do not know one another

InfluenceContagion: what flows across ties (germs, money, violence, fashions, organs, happiness, obesity)

Dyadic Spread: the tendency of effects to spread from one person to their direct social ties

Hyperdyadic spread: the tendency of effects to spread from person to person to person (outside a person’s

direct social ties)

What Are You Looking At?Stanley Milgram’s sidewalk experiment exploring the importance of reinforcement from multiple people

• Planted actors or “stimulus crowds” of different size to stare up at a window across the

street

• Passersby are filmed to record reactions--stop and stare/glance up

• Crowd of 1: 4% of pedestrians stopped

• Crowd of 15: 40% stopped, 86% glanced up

• Crowd of 5 induced almost the same effect as 15+!

Passersby were influenced in deciding to copy a behavior by the size of the crowd exhibiting it

Photo by David Sim

Six Degrees of Separation

Photo by Dan Coulter

• A citizen in Nebraska was instructed to mail a letter to someone who they

thought would know a particular business man in Boston

•The goal was to measure the number of steps for the letter to reach the

business man

• On average, required six steps

• Replicated on global scale with same results!

It’s a small world after all

Stanley Milgram experiment showing that people are all connected by an average of six steps

Three Degrees of Influence

The influence of actions ripples through networks 3 degrees

(to and from your friends’ friends’ friends)

You are affected by people you don’t even know!

Influence dissipates after 3 degrees because:

-Intrinsic decay: corruption of information

(like the game telephone)

-Network Instability: social ties become unstable at 4+ degrees of

separation

-Evolutionary Purpose: we evolved in small groups where everyone was

connected by 3 degrees or less

Photo by Taro Taylor

Three Degrees of Influence

If we are connected to everyone by 6 degrees and

influence those up to 3 degrees, then we can reach

halfway to the whole world!

Photo by Wonderworks, Flikr

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SOCIAL MEDIAAbout

Photo Credit Mazier Media - http://maziermedia.com/

What is Social Media

We can use Social Media to Connect with and Grow our Social Networks.

Social Media in CanadaIn 2011, Canada had the most social media users in the world on a per capita basis, according to research firm eMarketer.

About 47.4 per cent of Canadians were using social media at least once a month in 2011, compared to 47.2 per cent of Americans, 42.4 per cent of South Koreans and 40.2 per cent of Australians.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/02/29/social-media-rankings-canada_n_1311093.html

http://www.thecord.ca/social-media-use-climbs-in-canada/

Warning!

• If you are new to all this what you are about to see may shock you.

• Following is a very small sampling of the many, many, many, social media options available.

• You do not have to involve yourself in all of them.

• Pick one or two to start and work up from there.

Facebook

• Yes, Facebook is huge.• Just over half of the Canadian population over 13 has

a Facebook account.• That means almost half don’t.• Check your privacy settings and be aware that the

setting rules can change. Check often.• You can have an account and/or Pages.• Pages are a great way for for businesses and

organizations to connect with customers and supporters.

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This can take a while. You will immediately get an email confirming your request and the actual email with the download will come later.

Your pages display here.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/5-things-about-facebook-you-probably-didn-t-know-1.1380271

Mine took all of 5 minutes to arrive.

When I selected “download archive” I got a 8.3 MB zip file and I am not a heavy Facebook user.

Don’t do this on your phone!

After I unzipped it, this is what I found.

Not too scary, and good to know that - every poke, every message, every photo, everything was being so thoroughlykept by Facebook.

Facebook, and all social media, are tools that you can use to share, connect and learn.

Like all tools you ought to now how they work so that you can can keep yourself and your loved ones safe.

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/facebook101

Great tutorial on how to use Facebook

Twitter• Twitter is a social networking and

microblogging platform.• It’s not as popular as Facebook but hose who

use it seem to prefer it.• Because Tweets - what updates are called on

Twitter - are limited to 140 characters you can read through lots of updates in a very short time.

http://socialmediatoday.com/daniel-zeevi/1371811/twitter-101-what-twitter-really-about

Great tutorial on how to set up and use Twitter

Google Plus• Google + is a social networking and microblogging platform.• I think of it as a Facebook for adults.• Google Plus works seamlessly with almost all of Google’s

other services.• Google Hang Outs work really well. I use it a lot, for team

meetings and video chatting.• You can control who see’s your posts and Google

Communities offer a great private social networking space.• Google Plus also has Pages, like Facebook’s, but different.

https://support.google.com/plus/?hl=en#topic=3049661

Great tutorial on how to use Google Plus

LinkedIn

• LinkedIn is a social networking service for professionals.

• People go to LinkedIn to connect with other professionals in their field, connect with prospective customers, to look for employees.

• It’s like an online business club.• LinkedIn Groups are a great source of information and

a way to connect with people outside of your own network.

Excellent set of video tutorials for LinkedIn

http://byzblog.com/linkedin-tutorial/

Tumblr• Tumblr is a super easy to use microblogging platform.

https://www.tumblr.com/ • Privacy is easier to control in Tumblr than in Facebook.• Photos, videos, music and gifs are very popular posts

types.• Gifs are short looping videos that load really quickly of

mobile devices.

Great Tumblr tutorial

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/how-to-use-tumblr/

YouTube

• YouTube is part of Google’s suite of products.• It’s a social media platform or service and a

search engine.• It’s the second most popular search engine in

the world.• If you have a Gmail address you already have a

YouTube Channel, you just have to set it up.Easy to follow video tutorial on how to set up a YouTube Channel

http://youtu.be/bDKSKCSWjIY

Pinterest

• Pinterest is a social media platform that lets you collect and share pictures and graphics of things you love.

• It’s like an online corkboard where you can collect pictures of things you find online.

• It’s a great media space for food, fashion and other things that look good.

Tutorial on how to get started with Pinterest

http://about.pinterest.com/basics/

More• Vine - https://vine.co/ - Twitter for video. Mobile app to capture

and share short videos for sharing.• Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/ - Online photo management and

sharing• Instagram - http://instagram.com/ - Mobile app to capture and

share pictures and videos with cool editing features.• Foursquare - https://foursquare.com/ - Mobile social check-in

app to share where you are and what’s cool about that place.• Yelp - http://www.yelp.com/ - Social recommendation app to find

and share information about businesses.• Diigo - https://www.diigo.com/ - Social bookmarking and research

application.

Other ToolsTools to collect and

share content

• Paper.i - http://paper.li/ • Scoop.it -

http://www.scoop.it/ • Learnist -

http://learni.st/category/featured

• Storify - https://storify.com/ • Hundreds of others

Tools to help organize your social media

• Hootsuite - https://hootsuite.com/

• Buffer - http://bufferapp.com/

• Tweetdeck - http://tweetdeck.com/

• IFTTT - https://ifttt.com/ • Hundreds of others

How to use allllll these tools

• Each social media platform has it’s own tutorials and how to sections.

• GCF LearnFree has great video tutorials http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ • YouTube is filled with more than just cute cats -

search for videos that demonstrate how to use specific social media sites.

• Cheat sheet for header sizes - http://louisem.com/2852/social-media-cheat-sheet-sizes

Most important!

• You do not own your profile or page on any social media platform.

• You are a guest on Facebook, Twitter and all other social media.

• Your profile can be shut down at any time.• That is the price of free.• That is why we will talk about blogging next.

BLOGS AND BLOGGINGAbout

The section following will focus on Wordpress. Other options are available but not covered in this presentation.

This is a beginners guide to setting up a hosted blog on Wordpress.com but will include some other basic information about blogging in general and using hosted options.

What is a blog?

• Blog is short for Web log - a way to log or document something online.

• Early blogs were like online journals.• Blogs have grown in popularity and in recent

years many businesses have discovered the power of blogging as a way to inform, connect and to build an online community or following.

• A blog is a type of website although the distinction between is blurring quickly.

Blog options

1. Build it (code it) yourself from scratch.

2. Pay for hosting but use a free Theme.

3. Pay for hosting and buy a Theme.

4. Use a hosted option like Blogger or Wordpress.com

Building it from scratch

Building any kind of website, including a blog, is kind of like building a house. You need to know what you are doing and it will take a long time.The upside is that you can build it the way you want it.

Building it from scratch

• I’m not doing to say too much about this other than - If you want to learn to code check out:

http://www.codecademy.com/and

http://www.w3schools.com/html/

You can also hire someone to build you site - like a contractor to build a house. There are lots of great website designers that charge under 1000.00 to design a custom site. Get several references if you are going to go this route!!!

Self hosted blogsSelf hosting means that you register your domain or URL - the address your site will “live” at, and then purchase hosting from the same provider or a different one.

Hosting is want gets your site online.

A self hosted Wordpress blog is like buying a house in a subdivision. You have a lot of freedom and control but still have to conform to the basic design and building plans.

4 Steps to a self hosted blog1. Register a domain - your name or business name(s).

2. Sign up for a hosting plan with a reputable company - often you can purchase your domain and get hosting through the same company. I suggest splitting them up.

3. Install Wordpress on your new domain.

4. Choose a free theme (or purchase one) and start decorating your site with your own style and content.

You can do this all for under 30 bucks to get startedbut it takes some time and know how.

Registering a domain

• Registering a domain is like leasing an address. • As long as you keep payments up the address -

URL - is yours.• I have several domains that I have paid for over

the years just because they are my business names I don’t want anyone else to use them.

• I use my http://jamiebillingham.com domain mostly.

What is a domain?

Really simple explanation of the Anatomy of a Domain Name and URLhttp://www.slideshare.net/andymatic/anatomy-of-a-domain-name-and-url

http://www.yourdomain.com/blogpost1

There are parts to a URL that include the domain name. It’s kind of confusing until you break it down.

http:// - Stand for hyper text transfer protocol - it just mean this is the computer language being used. You may also see https:// which means it’s a secure site. YoMake sure that you see the “s” on any site where you are entering private information - like your banking info!

www. - is the subdomain. Other subdomains include mail. and even blog. Not all URLs use the www… I know, it’s confusing!

yourdomain - is what you register along with the top level domain like the .com or .ca or .org.

Where to register a domainThere are many places to register your domain. In no particular order here are places I have used and what I like about them at this writing. This could all change tomorrow

Canspace Solutions - https://www.canspace.ca/ Cheapest place to register a .ca aka at Canada domain and get Canadian hosting.

NameCheap - http://www.namecheap.com/ They are cheap and have been around for a long time.

GoDaddy - http://ca.godaddy.com/ Possible the largest domain registration and hosting service.

BillyHost - https://billyhost.com/ Small, local to me and personalized service for domain registration and hosting and may be cheaper than name cheap. Not Canadian hosting however.

Canadian registration and hosting

• Canada has different laws around privacy.• .ca domains are protected by CIRA

http://www.cira.ca/whois/faq/what-is-cira-2/ and CIRA has a list of places to register.

• If you are a nonprofit organization you may want your data stored in Canada so that the American Patriot Act does not apply to you.

• .ca domain registration and Canadian hosting used to be really expensive, not so any more.

How to register a domain and set up hosting

• There are hundreds of great videos on how to do this.• Most recommend their own favorite registration and hosting company.• Despite that the tutorials linked below are very detailed and a great

way to learn about domain registration, hosting and adding a theme and content to you blog for self hosted and Wordpress.com hosted sites.

• Grab a cup of tea and a notepad before you start though - both are long with lots of details. Really, these are movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKDZoIaVg60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zexszNgbE

Hosted blogsA hosted blog is kind of like buying into a townhouse complex. You can change the inside but design outside is limited to what options the host provides.

The upside is that you can move right in, the free versions still offer lots of choices, is safer from hackers and there is a social network built in.

Step 1Go to http://en.wordpress.com/ and click Get Started

Step 2Fill out the form.

Step 2 con’tYou can change the username and blog address.

Pick a strong password that you can remember or that you can store safely somewhere.

Step 2 con’tRead through the Term of Service and then click Create Blog

Step 3

Check your email and click

Activate Blog

Step 4Change the default blog title to something more descriptive. Spaces and Capitalization will display for both the Blog Title and the Tagline.

You can change your Blog Title and Tagline later so don’t sweat over it at this point

Click Next Step

Step 5There are lots of free themes to choose from and you can change your theme as often as you like. For now just pick

Twenty Thirteen to follow along with this demo.

Step 6Click Customize It!

Step 7Click in the right corner to open a menu

Step 8

This is where you can change your Site Title and Tagline

Step 9

This is where you can chose either a static page or your blog page as as your Home Page.

Step 10You can also change the colour of your Site Title and Tagline.

You can do a bit more here but it’s easier to do it in the dashboard.

For now click save and then Get started here.

Step 11

Your Dashboard is where you can get creative and add posts, pages, media and other awesome stuff.

The section from Posts to Settingsis really important. Spend some timelooking through these.

Next steps

http://learn.wordpress.com/

We are now at slide 100! To move forward go to the link above and work through the tutorials.

http://jamiebillingham.com @jamiebillingham