Safer Internet Day

E-safety

Tuesday 5th February is Safer Internet Day - a day which focuses on being safe online. This year the Safer Internet Centre's theme is "together for a better internet". The idea behind this year's theme is that we can all choose to make a difference when we use the internet and communicate on the web just as we can as we interact with people in our physical environment.

The Centre offers 5 tips for how we can choose to behave and make the internet a better place:

• Choose to ask for consent
• Choose to be supportive and positive
• Choose to be in control
• Choose to find out more
• Choose to talk about it

To find out more about what these mean follow the 5 tips link above. You'll also find lots more relevant information about e-safety and this year's campaign.

SID TV 2019 has also launched a YouTube video presented by young people about Consent Online.

The video is also available with subtitles and British Sign Language here.

Diversity Day & Geospatial mapping

Diversity Day

It's that time of year again and the LRC were manning a stand at the College's Diversity Day event last week.

We asked students to mark on a map where they come from.

Diversity Day map on LRC stand
Photo: Peterborough Regional College

One of our LRC assistants created a Tagxedo image of the places students mentioned.

Tagxedo showing where students come from

Geospatial Mapping Resource

If you want to find out some of the areas of the UK where students were born, remember that you have access to digital maps of different kinds through the  Geospatial Data resource. You can add symbols and labels to the maps, plot routes, add layers and print off A4 maps. Access is available from the LRC electronic resources page on Moodle. There are also video demonstrations linked within the resource.