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some safety reminders to remember?
1, Encourage parents and carers involvement. ir
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learning from home. ee nit
+ Provide contact times and classroom schedules.
+ Provide procedures to follow and consequence if they failed.
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+ Share information about protection from cyberbullying and image abuse.
2. Make lesson plans as interactive as possible to keep attention of students. Be flexible
with class length and topics.
+ Make assignments as guided as possible. Teachers may need to source research sites,
to ensure on-line safety.
+ Provide students with resources. Share with your students websites and videos so
as not to take them to inappropriate materials such as ads from You Tube and other
sites.
3. Encourage public chatting. Avoid texting students one-on-one, instead send @ group
text, or group chat. When using technology like zoom, google.meet, MOOCS allow .
public chatting or group instead of chatting'privately so that you can be part of their
conversation.
4. Use of password, log in and log out.
+All students should have individual password. This should not be disclosed.
+ No one should log in as another person. é
+ All users should log off when they have finished working.
‘There are more reminders to follow in the use of the digital platform for virtual or on-line
learning environment but for the meantime let us have a few.. As technology advances, so do
policies and guidelines.
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