Password+Safety

=Password Safet y = Password safety is very important. Students often feel a sense of loyalty to share their passwords with friends thinking, "oh, it will be fine." However, it's easy for private information to become public fast when someone else has access to your passwords. Remember, the friend with whom you share information probably has another friend that they can trust and may share your information with them. After all, we're all friends... It may seem harmless, but texts, ims, videos, etc. viewed out of context can be misinterpreted. What seems funny to you may be hurtful to others. Your deepest darkest secrets that you have protected behind passwords, might be too good for someone else not to think that they should go public. Don't share your passwords!

**Student Created Video - Password Safety (2:03)**
media type="custom" key="951009" http://www.schooltube.com/fullsize.aspx#STITwoThirdsTop 1. Could this happen to you? 2. Do friends pressure you to give them your password? 3. How can you say no and still be their friend? 4. What password rules did you learn in the video?
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Lauren’s Ordeal
Lauren goes to school one day and everything has changed. Her friends won’t talk to her, people laugh and point when she walks past and someone has sent her disturbing text messages. She keeps receiving vicious emails from people she doesn’t even know, people have posted lies and rumours about her on the internet and when she logs into Messenger, she has been blocked by all her friends. Lauren is being bullied in cyberspace. This clip is Lauren’s story—what happened and how she dealt with it. http://www.wiseuptoit.com.au/videoclips.htm

1. When Lauren confronts Susan she says, "It was just a bit of fun! I didn't mean for it to be so serious." Explore the extent to which Susan is responsible for Lauren's ordeal. 2. Lauren says: "What I never realized is that the internet is actually just another public place." What does Lauren mean by this? What insight does it give you into how people should behave on the internet or the types of precautions you need to take? 3. People who didn't know Lauren became involved in bullying her. Why do you think that happened?
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"Broken Friendship"
A friendship is broken when a teen gives her best friend's password to some other girls at school. Find and watch [|"Broken Friendship"] from this NetSmartz link. 1. Why do you think the girl in the story gave her password to her best friend? Was it a good reason? 2. What types of things can happen to her now that her password is out? **Follow up Activities**: 1. Students brainstorm other ideas for creating a password safety video. What was missing? What should be added? How else could you present a video to capture students attention to this topic?
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2. Use the information from Activity 1 to actually create a video and present it to a school official and students.

3. Make a list of categories that people use for passwords (don't show anyone!). Now share your list with the group. Do you find similar categories? Would it be hard for someone to figure out your passwords considering that most people use generally the same types of info for passwords?