Discuss and share best practices for managing social media account settings
About This Module
This curriculum module is based on takeaways from series two of NYC Digital Safety training videos. You may use this module by:
- Including it in your pre-existing public workshops
- Combining it with other NYC Digital Safety modules to make a longer data-privacy focused workshop
- Sharing the handout with library users at various service points
Downloadable presentation slides, a facilitation guide, and a handout can be found below. The handout from this module has been translated into Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Russian, and Spanish.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, learners will be able to:
- Describe social media account settings
- Determine the benefits of managing and monitoring social media accounts
- Use best practices to manage social media accounts
Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is also included in the downloadable facilitation guide below. You are welcome to use any and all of this, or adapt it as you see fit.
This module will take approximately 65 to 70 minutes to complete.
Introduction and welcome
Greet learners and review the plan for this module
Defining social media account settings
Provide an overview of social media account settings and see if anyone has anything to add to this definition
Discussion: Which social media accounts do you use?
If you did a pre-test, you can use the results to get the conversation going. Hold a conversation with learners and ask what social media accounts they use and how they like to use them
Social media account settings
Review what sort of information is shared on social media, and what information may be revealed about social media users
Discussion: Your personal information, online
Hold a conversation with learners about what they’ve seen posted online that they feel might make the person who posted it vulnerable to privacy and security issues
Best practices for managing social media accounts
Review best practices for protecting personal information on social media. Briefly pause after each slide to see if anyone has anything else to add or any questions
Activity: Managing your social media account settings
Make sure learners have their guided handouts. Break them into small groups. Have them work through the handout to identify their social media accounts and make a plant for strengthening their social media account security
Wrap up, final tips, and final questions
Review the closing thoughts and share the suggested resources. See if anyone has any final questions
Next Steps
Download the materials below for use in your workshop or at service points throughout your library.
If you plan to create a longer privacy-focused workshop using these materials, here is a link to Google slides. Feel free to make a copy if you’d like to add these slides to any other deck.
And please let us know how it went! Use this form to share your feedback on this module. We’d love to hear from you.