{"id":483,"date":"2011-02-07T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/02\/07\/internet-safety-course-is-free-this-week\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T12:17:00","slug":"internet-safety-course-is-free-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/internet-safety-course-is-free-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Safety course is free this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are offering the Internet Safety course for free as part of SQA&#8217;s contribution to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saferinternet.org\/web\/guest\/safer-internet-day\">Safer Internet Day<\/a>, which takes place tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to use social media to give learners a taste of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/controller?p_service=Content.show&amp;p_applic=CCC&amp;pContentID=34586&amp;qualfield=Intermediate+1+%3E+Internet+Safety\">Internet Safety course<\/a>. It&#8217;s completely free and there is no (formal) assessment. All you need to access the course is a smartphone (or a PC).<\/p>\n<p>The week-long course will sample the contents of the Internet Safety award, which includes topics such as on-line fraud, identity theft, grooming, and protecting yourself against viruses. It&#8217;s suitable for all learners, young or old. You can do as much, or little, of the course as time permits.<\/p>\n<p>Signing-up for the course is easy. Simply <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sqaesafety\">follow us on Twitter<\/a> and we will take care of the rest! If you don&#8217;t already use Twitter, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/signup\">sign-up here<\/a>. If you really don&#8217;t want to use Twitter (and we would prefer it if you did) then you can <a href=\"http:\/\/netsafe2011.blogspot.com\/\">access the course blog directly<\/a> (but you will miss out on some of the course interaction).<\/p>\n<p>The course runs from tomorrow (Tuesday) until Friday. <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Caroline<\/a> if you want to know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are offering the Internet Safety course for free as part of SQA&#8217;s contribution to Safer Internet Day, which takes place tomorrow. We plan to use social media to give learners a taste of the Internet Safety course. It&#8217;s completely free and there is no (formal) assessment. All you need to access the course is a smartphone (or a PC). The week-long course will sample the contents of the Internet Safety award, which includes topics such as on-line&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}