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Internet Safety 101 is a widely-renowned resource and teaching series that paints a comprehensive picture of the dangers children encounter online. Through the Internet Safety 101 program, EnoughIsEnough strives to educate and empower parents, educators and other caring adults with the information they need to effectively protect children from Internet dangers.

This internet safety website is geared more towards parents and educators than students, There is information regarding how to identify scams, predators and bullying and then also how to combat these threats. I liked the blog-like forum, but the recent news articles and press/media links made the website feel paranoid. Overall, interesting resources!

The site provides lots of tips, advice, and suggestions to help parents keep their kids safe and away from the risks online. For example, it provides advice on how to prevent exposure to inappropriate material, physical molestation, harassment and bullying. It even has important information on keeping computer viruses and hacking in check, parental control of family computer, and online dating. The site also provides tools to promote the safety of the kids. For example, The Safe Kids Song serves as a great tool for teaching kids skills on Internet safety; The Online Safety Quiz helps a pre-teen how to be a safe Internet surfer. Overall, this is a very useful website for concerning parents to manage their kids' online activities and to educate their kids on Internet and computer safety.

This is a website put out by the Nebraska Attorney General. The website has quite a bit of information, including a tab just for Internet Safety information. It talks about quite a few things that are seemingly "no brainers" when it comes to internet safety, but at the same time, if it isn't said to kids, they may not know it. It discusses a few safety tips for parents to give to their kids along with discussing the importance of parental involvement when it comes to internet safety.

Free Internet Safety for Kids Tutorial - Practicing safety is a must with anyone who goes online, but with kids it is especially important. This tutorial will discuss the threats your kids may encounter while online and show you how protect them and talk to them about being safe and responsible. There are lessons, tutorials, and many interactive ideas for internet safety and children.

This website contains of a wealth of information on Internet safety tips for kids, preventing identity theft, and fire safety. There is also information about first aid, crime prevention, and personal safety. Each page contains several suggestions along with other helpful links. For kids on the Internet, they suggest to never give out personal information, avoid strangers, and immediately leaving inappropriate sites.

Internet Safety 101 has extensive information about how the internet works. It also shows age-based guidlines for safety and what parents/teachers can do to keep kids safe.

Articles about online safety from Christian perspective to parents. Has good tips and links. The site has other articles as well related to internet safety.

This site advocates for children's internet safety education including bullying prevention and other pertinent topics to k-12 students, along with links for instructors of the program, parents, and how to get involved. Very comprehensive site and easy to navigate.

This site was created to assist with parenting in a world of technology. Many of our children are wired and connected to an entire world we're unfamiliar with. This site especially helps people if they didn't grow up with the same technologies. These resources can help with any given sub topic regarding internet and children.

This website is about internet safety for young kids and for teens. It talks about the dangers of using the internet without caution and how to avoid danger that can come from using it. There are links that talk about law enforcement and the internet, educators, parents, etc. Some of the issues that children can click on to read about are blogging, cell phones, games, chatting, email, sexting, social networking, predators, identity theft, cyber bullying, file sharing, webcams, revealing too much, and more. This website talks about several problems that are encountered and how kids can avoid them or repond to them if they run into them.

This site has nice links for parents and teachers on how to recognize and prevent bullying.

Common Sense Media Education Programs is a very clean, user friendly and extremely informative website on the internet safety. They provide numerous ways to educate students, parents and other educators on how to stay safe on the web. Its even divided into appropriate grade level sections. There is a blog/forum to promote further discussion and education. There is also a section for related 'toolkits' that help develop awareness of internet and media safety.

These rules are aimed mostly at pre-teens. It is now very common, and generally safe, for teens and even older pre-teens to upload pictures and information about themselves on social networking sites, however caution is still necessary to make sure that posts, images and videos are appropriate.

This internet safety sight is from Disney. It is an interactive sight for young children to learn about internet safety. There is an island that children navigate through by answering questions about what information is safe to use on the internet. It is fun and easy for children to use.

This website offers detailed information regarding internet safety for kids. There is a list broken down by age group explaining the mindset of the child and how to work with it. This site could be a valuable resource for both teachers and parents.

Cyberbee is a site geared towards children and internet safety. It has been providing Internet resources, lessons, and projects to educators for over a decade. Lessons are created around national standards and tested by teachers. Everything is free. It is currently run by two teachers in Columbus, Ohio. It has a section about web evaluation and copyright laws as well as dozens and of child safe lessons and links for teachers to use.

This blog hosts 16 sites for internet safety & children for parents, teachers, and school administration to browse to educate themselves and others about this topic.

This is a good and through guide for parents as introduction into internet safety. However, it is clearly dated and needs an update. I thought it had good information just was not up to date enough.

Webonauts is created by PBSKids.org to educate kids about important skills they need to know when they spend time online. Through the Webonauts Internet Academy adventure, kids pick their suit and helmet to explore different places and make choices that reflect what they will likely encounter while surfing the Internet in real life. Webonauts Internet Academy provides important rules or lessons a kid needs to understand about safety on the Internet with various missions. Each mission offers the child subtle clues on making the right decisions about their online activities. For example, it advises kids to show respect to others and only go to sites where the kid supposed to go. It also embed the idea that one should never giving out his/her passwords, family address, credit card information, or any other personal information to other people on line.

I believe this is a great resource of information when dealing with the major issue of internet safety. It has a few tabs of how the information is sorted, including: general information, for teachers, for students and for parents. I really like how the information is sorted, but at the same time, all available at once on this site.

Cybersmart is a free online collaborative workshop designed to prepare students, parents and teachers to the dangers of the Internet. This site provides hands-on opportunities for teachers to learn internet-safe methods they will be encouraging in their classrooms. The curriculum is based on the categories of S.M.A.R.T: "safety and security online, manners, bullying, and ethics, authentic learning and creativity, research and information fluency, and twenty-first century challenges. It also provides Internet solutions to some of the world's most impoverished regions. CyberSmart! Africa, for example, finds solutions for schools in Africa so they can be engaged in 21st century technology.