Moodle Chat
What is Moodle chat?With online chat you can ‘talk’ to other students and instructors while you are online.
You have the option of ‘chatting’ in a general area, or there are 4 separate rooms where the ‘conversation’ is logged. This is to allow the private rooms to be used for assessment (i.e. group work or […]
Sharing Personal Information in Online Community Member Profiles - Kimberly R. Swinth, Shelly D. Farnham, John P. Davis
ABSTRACTWe describe the results of a study that examined the amount of personal information people will share in an online community member profile. The type of online community and participants’ expectancies about the probability that they might meet […]
Online Safety Tips
• Keep your personal information secret when chatting online. Don’t disclose your name, address, telephone number, cell phone number, private email address, school name or location, or pictures of yourself online. Be careful when filling out "profiles" in clubs of communities. Think about what visible information you have, for example in your Profile […]
SAFETY NET; Internet SafetyPresented by Officer Michaele SageCanon City Police Department
Goals of presentation:Heighten awareness about dangers of the Internet
–Chat rooms–Online harassment & cyberstalking–Computer viruses–Identity theft
Chat Rooms:
•People aren’t always truthful•NEVERgive out any personal information. This includes personal profiles•Predators are very persuasive and use certain tactics to “groom”their victims•Predators will usually want to have a “private chat”so […]
Being a good cybercitizenFor the Internet to be the fun, enlightening, and safe place we all want it to be, everyone, adults and children alike, must be good cybercitizens.Essentially, that means bringing the same ethical, considerate, and careful behavior to the online world that you practice offline. Several important aspects to being a good cybercitizen […]
ABSTRACTBased upon a study of 22 forensic interviews with suspected sex offenders whose criminal conduct originated from Internet use, this paper examines the role of cyberspace in the development of virtual sex offending cases. A framework that differentiates patterns of online behavior of virtual sex offenders from classic pedophilia is presented, which delineates “situational” from […]
Abstract.
In this paper we investigate the application of data mining methods to provide learners with real-time adaptive feedback on the nature and patterns of their on-line communication while learning collaboratively.We derived two models for classifying chat messages using data mining techniques and tested these on an actual data set [16]. The reliability of the […]
Introduction
As technologically- and computer-meditated-communication become increasingly common forms of communication, and the historic underrepresentation of women’s participation with technology, it is important to study the gendered dynamics of internet based conversations within this locus of power. In both sexually based and non-sexually themed arenas, sex talk and discussions about sex are one of the most […]
My name is nym…
Many people protect their privacy online by using a “nym” or alternate identity. Pseudonymity allows you to maintain a sense of control over which parts of your identity are expressed to the public, while at the same time, allowing you to “tryon” new identities.
If you use your full name in an email […]
What kinds of harassment can happen online?What should you do if you are getting harassed or cyberstalked?How can you minimize the risk of being electronically harassed or cyberstalked?
Cyberspace is not naturally a "warm" environment. It is an emotionless electronic communication system. All the warmth and emotion that is created online has to be created by […]