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The forum for parents, teens, experts and more to discuss safe socializing on the fixed and mobile Web.

Great site about digital citizenship and Internet Safety.

This is a fun song to share with your class. It prompts the students to do these three things: stop, think, and connect. It will help remind them to save safe on the Internet.

Ivy's internet search engine resources for kids. Search multiple child safe search engines from this page. Links to web guides for kids.

Kid Safe Search Engine

Search engine for students with many search options and resources.

I like this site because easy for children to understand the information is not too mature or over their heads.  It also has a section for parents if they want to be able to share with students at home.

Internet Safety resources and links used by @fsinfo on Plurk and Twitter

It requires registration and only allows UK postcodes. What's a US gal to do?

Good grief. Should we also tell them to stay away from the road because of the dangerous cars? Sounds like another way to deny kids an increasingly important 21C literacy.

Apologies - I thought you were advocating for the bulleted section of the article.

Thanks. My general rule of thumb is to only advocate for continual improvement through on-going learning. I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy and was SHOCKED to learn that GPS coordinates get auto-embedded in images. I'd never considered this before and don't consider the extra information (GPS coordinates that can easily be mapped to an exact location) something that "should be" (yet it is) made available to anyone who can view a picture. In other words, let's say, I'm super careful to not include identifying information in my photos (my name, school name, city landmarks, etc) and take a picture of say, my stereo system. I've now included with this image the exact coordinates for where my home (with stereo) is located. Now a potential thief has this information (w/Google Map directions). It's super hard to be intentional about all of our choices and actions (including using GPS data w/cell phone images). That said, the more we all know, the more each of us is able to make decisions that best align with our own views, values and understandings. It's one thing for an adult to make a decision or not make a decision about inclusion of GPS data in their cell phone taken images, it takes another level of consideration when it involves giving that capability to children. THANK YOU for helping me to capture and better articulate my thoughts in this area!

Via @pcwoessner on Twitter. Great development of Digital Citizenship/Internet Safety resources. He has combined NETS-S, Ribble & Bailey's Digital Citizneship in Schools, iKeepSafe C3 Matrix, Microsoft's Digital Citizenship & Creative Content, and SimpleK12's Protecting Students in the 21st Century.

This website gives advice on how to keep ages 6-10 safe online; it gives parent guides, age-specific apps, and why this is important.

"Helping kids be safe, confident explorers of the online world."