ELGG+Basics

=ELGG Basics=

media type="custom" key="11529760" In this module, you will learn the basic skills and ground rules for using ELGG.

As part of Video Broadcast Technology, we will be focusing on all forms of digital communication. We spent a couple of class days specifically talking about the dangers and safety measures necessary when using social networking sites. The students explored the district Digital Citizenship website, and read an article entitled "Do You Google Well?" We will continue to weave the concepts of digital citizenship throughout the class in hopes of developing safe online habits. My purpose with this modules is to provide students with a safe “playground” on our Dublin social networking site, ELGG. Students will be explicitly taught how to set their privacy settings, and what behaviors are expected.


 * Here are the guidelines:**
 * Students will keep their profile information private (privacy settings).
 * Students are not to post personal information such as age, gender, address, phone, email address, or personal photographs.
 * Students are not to use “texting” language or excessive punctuation (!!!!!! or ????).
 * Students are to remain respectful at all times.
 * Students will practice participating in a class blog.
 * Students will join the class group.

Go to your ELGG Profile, and set the following:
 * Edit profile icon: something that represents an interest, or an avatar
 * Interests: separate interests by commas
 * About me: leave out anything too personally revealing
 * **Interests** and **About me** should be set to **Friends**
 * Set everything else to **Private.**
 * Skills and Location will reset back to Logged in users, but just keep it blank.
 * **DO NOT** put in your location, contact email, telephone, or mobile phone.

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