Internet Safety Wendy Varner. Internet Safety –The goal is to educate students on how to avoid dangerous, inappropriate, or unlawful online behavior.

Internet Safety

Wendy Varner

Internet Safety– The goal is to educate

students on how to avoid dangerous, inappropriate, or unlawful online behavior.

– There are many websites that are set up to inform students, parents and educators.

• Other Net activities -- like child pornography or the attempted luring of a child to a face-to-face meeting -- are illegal in many, but not all, countries.

Internet Safety TipsKids

• Go with your gut• Keep your shields up• Keep identifying

information to yourself• Keep your password

secret• Don’t trust anyone• Chat Smart

• Guard your image• Be Aware• Never give your real

name, age, address• Tell parents,

teachers, law enforcement if something isn’t right

Internet SafetyParents

Talk with you teens

Be open-

With expectations

Learn all you can about the net

Check out blocking and filtering

Look at ratings

Teach your young children

Pay attention to online photos

Supervise computer use

Online Tools

• Internet service providers (ISPs) provide parent-control options to block certain material from coming in to your child's computer.

• Software can help block your child's access to certain sites based on a "bad site" list that your ISP creates.

• There are programs to monitor and track your child's online activity.

Internet SafetySources

• http://www.isafe.org/) (i-safe)• http://factsforlearning.2facts.com/m-topic-display.asp?pin

=wrch2- 2003830&param=%22internet%22+%22safety%22

(Facts for Learning)• http://www.safeteens.com/guidelines_parents.htm

(safeteens)• http://www.enough.org/ (Enough is Enough)• http://kids.getnetwise.org/safetyguide/danger/• http://www.awarenesstech.com/ (Get Net Wise)• http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/positive/

family/net_safety.html (Kids Health)