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Amanda Stone and the teachers in Hoover City use this to teach internet safety. They have to pass certain courses. The teachers set up the student accounts and the teachers manage their own classroom -- controlling their buddy lists and everything. The teachers connect w/ their students on the weekends and off times w/ their kids. Great entry to a virtual world!!! It bans them if they do innappropriate things -- so their goal for 5th grade is to get zero bans for the year. The teacher can control it. Each student have their own woogie -- eg. Davisteacher would be me -- my students would be davis1 davis2, etc. Pretty cool.

Great place to teach digital citizenship, highly recommended by Amanda Stone, instructional technology coach in Hoover City, AL.

This is fantastic!

Description: Information resources, workshop handouts, and games on these topics: identity safety, cyberbullying, cyber predators, piracy & plagiarism, social networks, and more from California Technology Assistance Project. Good for classroom use or parent/school board awareness programs. Subscribe to their listserv for the latest updates on events and program materials.

The Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use provides research and outreach services to address issues of the safe and responsible use of the Internet. We provide guidance to parents, educators, librarians, policy-makers, and others regarding effective strategies to assist young people in gaining the knowledge, skills, motivation, and self-control to use the Internet and other information technologies in a safe and responsible manner.

Safety website for parents

Still free as of February 2010

Still free as of February 2010

So next time you log on to Facebook, stop and think about the friends you're connected to. Can you really trust all of them to do the right thing on the internet all of the time? That's what you have to ask yourself when you're about to click that 'Accept Friend Request' button.

Garfield the Cat and his friends educate kids on Internet safety.

"Swimming pools can be dangerous for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences, and deploy pool alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one's children is to teach them to swim." - Youth Pornography and the Internet

online safety training and videos

Fascinating discussion about privacy and ethical allowance of students using full names at the college level has emerged on friendfeed. Read, learn, and jump in.

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.

reviews ratings, advice and all sorts of stuff like that. Great resource for parents, educators and students

Common Sense Media Education Program

Kevin Jarrett pointed out to me that Common Sense media now has movie reviews for kids to help you determine what is appropriate for your children. Again, you have to take everything under advisement ad make decisions for yourselves but as long as we go to whatever Hollywood dishes out, they'll keep doing it. (After all, they did research and found that a "G" rating was a "death sentence" for a movie. That is crazy.)