Parent Internet Awareness Night

Internet Internet AwarenessAwareness

A Parent Information PresentationBy Graham Wegner

ICT Coordinator,Lockleys North Primary School

30th May, 2007

The WebThe Web

•Email•WebPages•P2P networks•Newsgroups & Forums•Downloads•Search Engines

What is Web 2.0?What is Web 2.0?

• second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services

• enables collaboration and sharing between users

• Read Only becomes Read/Write• consumers become producers of

content

What are kids doing on the Web?• Blogging• Sharing music• Social networking• Gaming• Messaging• Commenting on others’ sites• Personalising their own

pages

Games•Connected worldwide with thousands of other players at once.

•Detailed virtual worlds with sophisticated, potentially addictive gameplay.

Music

Peer 2 Peer file sharingApple iTunesMp3 download sites

Social NetworkingSocial Networking • Friend of

a friend concept

• Profiles• MySpace

, Bebo, Facebook, Piczo

Self Publishing / Sharing BloggingWikisStartPagesYouTubeFlickr

What are the issues? • Keeping tabs

on where your kids go

• Privacy• Inappropriate

content• Bullying and

predators

Learn more…Learn more…• Statistics• Top Ten Hints• News Articles – Principal Sues,

- CyberCop , - Some Perspective, Safer cyber-playrooms

• Parent Awareness Sites – Stop Cyberbullying, StaySafe.org, Internet 101, NetAlert

What can we do?What can we do? • Public spaces for

computers• Open dialogue• Negotiate use and

purpose• Monitor behaviour• Set limits• Password

protection

ReferencesWebsites.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_wide_web

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/topten.aspx

Images.'Naar Hopla kijken' www.flickr.com/photos/64014075@N00/406228870

'Google on Sony PSP' www.flickr.com/photos/56783767@N00/67433282

'Tools ... there are 10 more look-alikes for each one on the screen. ;-)‘

www.flickr.com/photos/61237118@N00/460275127

'Transfering songs and videos to my iPod www.flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/56560783

'untitled‘www.flickr.com/photos/35468148654@N01/291537716

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Tom_profile.jpg

‘imakestuffup‘www.flickr.com/photos/35468141938@N01/10404265 stillness'www.flickr.com/photos/30008272@N00/85220007

Strangers @ The Park'www.flickr.com/photos/21526856@N00/339635845