Cyber Safety Project - Creating an eBook using Publisher

Caught in the Web video (14 minutes)

Watch 'Caught in the Web'

What is it trying to tell you?

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Cyber Safety eBook Task

You are to going to Research, Design and Create an eBook about Cyber Safety. The audience for the book will be Year 4 and 5 students. The book needs to teach them an important message about Cyber Safety. It needs to be between 5 and 8 pages long, colourful, fun and easy to understand. You are going to make it using Microsoft Publisher and output it as a PDF.

To help you create your eBook you need to complete the Activities below. Some of them are Class activites, others you will do on your own.

Class Activity 2 - Example eBook

Your Teacher is going to show you an example eBook called DigiDucks Big Decision.

Carefully look at the images and words that are used.

How was it designed to appeal to younger students?

What is the message the book is trying to get across?

Class Activity 3 - Research

Your Teacher is going to show you an interactive Website called Know it All.

You are going to find out what the SMART Rules are for using the Internet safely.

In groups of two or three you are to discuss the SMART Rules. See if you can remember what each one was.

Open up a Word file and summarise what each of the SMART letters stand for.

Activity 1 - Video Tutorial

Using headphones, watch this video on Using Publisher to create an eBook (15 minutes)

Activity 2 - Planning & Research

You now need to design your eBook. Using the same Word file that you used previously, you need to come up with two different ideas for a story. These only need to be a few sentences each but they need to explain the 'message' you are trying to get across to the year 4 student and who the characters will be in your story. You will then need to decide which one of the two you are going to choose to make your eBook. If you want to, you can discuss your two ideas with your teacher.

Below are some more web sites that might be help you decide upon an idea for your story.

Student Well Being Hub

BBC eSafety Resources (from UK)