Parent Presentation

K-12 Resources

NetSmartz - collection of resources about Internet Safety

• Activity Cards
• Videos for elementary students
• Real Life Stories
• Safety Pledge
• Safety Tips
• For Educators

iKeepSafe - geared toward younger students, ages 4-10.

• D.A.R.E activity lessons
• Internet Safety P.S.A's
• Parent Resources
• Teaching Tools

Student Activities

Internet Safety and Cyberbullying Brochure

Private vs. Personal Information

Internet Safety PSA

CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three Cyber Pigs

Internet Safety, Cyberbullying, and Digital Citizenship Posters

Parent and Teacher Resources

Resource Websites for Parents and Families - excellent resources for you and your parents to read and talk about.

Internet Safety by Joel Adkins, Westlake High School

Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents by Wesley Fryer

Frontline - Growing up online - PBS documentary every parent should see. Available to view online.

Online Bullying presentation - from 21st Century Learning

Outline for Parent Talk

• What are your concerns and fears about your children using the Internet?

• Think before you post video - from YouTube

• Stats of social networking use worldwide - Facebook, MySpace

• Explain private vs. personal information

• IM, Social Networks, Blogs - do you know if your children have accounts? If so, do you have access to their accounts? Discuss what kinds of information should and shouldn't be shared.

• What to do if you are a parent?

  • Talk to your kids about what they are doing online. Keep open line of communication.

  • Show interest and validate their need to be social creatures and digital natives.

  • Sign up with the services they use and become a "friend" to your child.

• Blocking and restricting access

  • Parental controls in Vista/XP/OS X

  • OpenDNS.org - filter all computers in your house at the router level. Totally free and works great.

  • Acceptable use policies with your children.

• Security software

  • AVG Free

  • Windows Defender