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Don't Be an Online Victim: How to Guard Against Internet Thieves and Electronic Scams

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Overview:: This 19 minute video has been produced by the FDIC. The presentation provides information on steps consumers should take to secure their computer and protect themselves from identity theft, as well as actions consumers should take if they become a victim of identity theft.
Type of Material:: Video
Recommended Uses:: The video could be shown or assigned in general business, introductory information system, personal finance, or introductory accounting classes.
Technical Requirements:: Browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:: To learn how to deter on-line identity theft and what to do if upon becomming a victim.
Target Student Population:: High school, College General Ed
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Basic understanding of the use of credit to make purchases

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Strengths:: Thus 19 minute video contains current and relevant material on the subject of identity theft. Content is accurate and informative. The presentation is clear and concise and includes an adequate amount of content to cover the topic. It provides real world examples to which users can relate.
Concerns:: The video purely a resource on identify theft and provides no means of confirming the learning of the material.

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Strengths:: The video covers all of the needed content on the subject of identity theft very, very, well. The presentation builds progressively demonstrating relationships between concepts. It would be easy to design a number of different assignments to re-enforce learning of the concepts involved. Overall, the video is quite effective as a teaching tool.
Concerns:: Doesn’t tie into to any other related concepts such as the nature of credit.

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Strengths:: This professionally executed video is easy to use and extremely visually appealing. Composition is excellent. The display screen can be enlarged for fuller screen viewing through YouTube without must loss of visual clarity. The video can be paused, rewound, and reviewed at will.
Concerns:: No interactivity is involved. Would be greatly enhanced by incorporating a number of activities to confirm / re-enforce learning. No captions or annotations are available.

Other Issues and Comments:: This quality video is a valuable tool provided by the FDIC to enhance consumer protection and personal financial literacy.
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