Internet Safety

Think Before you Post Online

from Educational Technology Guy by Dave

This is a great image to share with students to help them consider what they are doing online. Think before you post anything on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, a blog, or even email or text message. That information could end up being seen by anyone.

Google Family Safety Center - help promote safety online.

from Educational Technology Guy by Dave

Google Family Safety Center is a resource for parents and educators that has ideas, advice, and tips on how to keep kids safe online, tools to select what the children can see online, and much more. 

With all the issues and concerns about internet safety, Google Family Safety Center offers a free resource for parents and teachers. We need to teach children how to be safe online, both at home and in school.

For tools, Google offers SafeSearch and YouTube Safety mode, as well as video tips, advice from partner organizations, and links to other resources. 

Share this with the parents and teachers you know so that they can help make their children safer online.

Own Your Space - Online Safety Ebook for Teens

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

Own Your Space is a free, sixteen chapter ebook designed to educate tweens and teens about protecting themselves and their stuff online. This ebook isn't a fluffy, general overview book. Each chapter goes into great detail explaining the technical threats that students' computers face online as well as the personal threats to data that students can face online. For example, in the first chapter students learn about different types of malware and the importance of installing security patches to prevent malware infections. The fourteenth chapter explains the differences between secured and unsecured wireless networks, the potential dangers of an unsecured network, and how to lock-down a network. Download the whole book or individual chapters here.

Thanks to Steven Anderson for the link to Own Your Space.

Applications for Education
Own Your Space could be a great resource not only for twees and teenagers, but for their parents as well. Before sending a tween or teen off to school or to a friend's house with their new laptop or mobile device consider going through Own Your Space with him or her to educate both of you about protecting the device and the person online.

Google Family Safety Center - A Resource for Parents

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

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Keeping kids safe online is a top priority for every parent and teacher. To help parents and others learn about strategies and tools for keep kids safe online, today Google launched the Google Family Safety Center.

The Family Safety Center introduces parents to and shows them how to use Google's safety tools including safe search, safe search lock, and YouTube's safety mode. Google has partnered with a number of child safety organizations to develop educational materials for dealing with topics like cyberbullying, strangers online, protecting personal information, and avoiding malware online. Finally, Google's Family Safety Center contains a collection of videos featuring Google employees sharing the strategies they use with their own kids for teaching online behavior and keeping their kids safe online. One of those videos is embedded below.
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Applications for Education
My school is issuing netbooks to every student this week. One of the concerns that some parents have regarding their students bringing the netbook home is that they aren't sure how to make sure their children aren't doing something unsafe online. While not a comprehensive resource yet, Google's Family Safety Center will provide a nice primer that will educate those concerned parents.

Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
Phishing Detection Education
A Thin Line - Digital Safety Education for Teens
Learn Internet Safety with Garfield

Spread the Word About Cyber Bullying & Help Prevent Kids from Becoming a Statistic.

from SimpleK12 Blogs by Elizabeth
We’ve taken the time to collect hundreds and hundreds of internet safety resources to help educate and protect kids. There are numerous resources for cyber bullying as well as other internet safety issues such as protecting kids from online predators, identity thieves, inappropriate sites, and more. If you find these resources valuable, all I ask is that you pass it along to friends, parents, colleagues, etc…and start (or continue) educating others about how we can prevent kids from becoming a statistic.

• View all our Internet Safety Resources
• View our other free additional resources

Free Tutorial: Keep Kids Safe from Cyberbullies and Harassment

from SimpleK12 Blogs by Lisa

Enjoy this free online lesson from SimpleK12′s Protecting Students in the 21st Century Online Library.    As students are heading back to school, it’s important to refresh on proper internet safety measures – not to mention a requirement for E-Rate schools.   There is a wide range of important topics for both teachers and students to remember when learning and living online.  One of the more common and unfortunate problems that many of today’s students face is cyberbullying.   Cyberbullying can occur anytime and anywhere – and with new technologies like Facebook, Twitter, and SmartPhones it’s occurring more and more.
Do you know what signs to look for?
Are you helping prevent, discourage, and stop cyberbullying?
Please enjoy this free lesson from SimpleK12: 
Click here to launch your free lesson. 
If you are interested in learning more about our full content offering, you may click here for individual use or visit our website here for school or district implementation.
PS: Did I mention all of the internet safety content is included in the yearly EdTech UNconference membershipas well as hundreds of other topics?

Think U Know Cyber Cafe is a virtual environment where students can practice their online safety smarts. In the cafe, students will help virtual kids make good choices when using email, texting, instant messaging, web browsing, creating an online personal space, and chatting in a chat room. Students are guided through a variety of scenarios where they must help the virtual kids make the right decisions about using the Internet.
http://www.ilearntechnology.com/

Phineas and Ferb http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/commonsense/ are popular Disney channel characters. They have a new short video to help students learn cyberspace rules and online safety tips. Disney, together with Common Sense Media, created this fun short film to get kids thinking about cyber safety. Tips in the video include: Be careful what you put online, you never know who is going to see it; just because it’s online, doesn’t mean it’s true; not everyone is who they say they are; if you wouldn’t do it in person, you shouldn’t do it online; and get outside and spend time with real friends. These are great tips, but delivered by Phineas and Ferb they will be remembered by your students.

Computer Games
from The Interactive Classroom by Hall Jackson
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/connections/games

Cisco have a whole slew of computer games both flash and downloads that actually teach people about the internet, networks, routers, and network security. Obviously there is Cisco branding but these games look like a lot of fun and mare more arcade style than a simple flashcard memory game.
Cisco games arcade
So if you are teaching higher level networking or you want a fun way to teach primary school students about the internet - Peter Packet is a good one. This would be a fun engaging way to get students into the subject without all the dry explanations and topology diagrams


http://www.ikeepsafe.org/

http://www.brainpopjr.com/health/besafe/internetsafety/

http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/

http://www.wildwebwoods.org/popup.php?lang=en

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/08/02/the-best-sites-for-learning-online-safety/ (great site!)

From the presentation at school in February:
Detective Rich Wistocki:  wistockiR@naperville.il.us
http://www.besureconsulting.com/
Go to the website above for discounts on these products:
http://www.spectorsoft.com/ (Recotrds detail of computer internet activity)
http://www.mymobilewatchdog.com/ (Monitor your child's cell phone)
http://www.thelost.org/ (to report an incident (crimes against children)- cybertipline)

http://www.infinitelearninglab.org/
Internet Safety with Professor Garfield is offering lessons on online safety, cyberbullying, and coming soon: fact or opinion and forms of media. Each lesson is composed of three parts, watch, try, and apply. In the “watch” section, students watch a video starring Garfield and his friends. The video teaches an important Internet safety lesson. In the “try it” section, students are given a chance to play a game that checks for understanding and redirects thinking if students missed a concept. In the “apply it” section, students help a character from the video to make wise Internet safety decisions.

Get your web license - question/answer about internet http://pbskids.org/license/

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/08/02/the-best-sites-for-learning-online-safety/

http://sjbrooks-young.com/id13.html