TED8570Spring2013

Common Sense Media provides a extremely useful guideline for teachers to use Internet-appropriate materials online. It provides lesson plans for grade (K-12) that detail how students and teachers can successfully navigate the dangers of the Internet while provide quality content to the classroom. It also provides reviews of movies, magazines, and television shows that can be used in the classroom. These reviews are based on the age they are most appropriate. It allows teachers to filter the results by age, subject and learning objective.

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.

I Keep Safe is a website designed for parents, educators, communities, and youth. It has a variety of topics to help children stay safe when using technology. It has information for parents on how to ensure their children are using facebook in a safe way as well as other online sites. This site is easy to navigate and is a good resource for internet safety.

Duolingo is a fantastic new website for learning languages. It offers courses in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. Each course allows the learner to progress along various logical steps towards greater fluency. Additionally, it has a cooperative, social-media aspect in that it allows users to exchange information how to best translate materials. Overall, the site is an excellent tool for students to learn a language at their own pace and in an entertaining manner.

I love this website! I am using it to brush up on my German from high school before hitting Europe again next summer!

This website gives parents helpful tips about cyberbullying, privacy matter, Facebook must knows, say yes to technology, how-tos, software solutions, yoursphere.com and ask Mary Kay. There are lots of interesting tips about the different subject matters regarding electronic devices, social networks, and hoaxes.

This is a product that one can pay to have complete parental control for your child's computer. You can see everything they do online, Parental control of what they do, Easy to use and inexpensive, and Remote Monitoring. The McGruff Safeguard is part of the www.ncpc.org - National Crime Prevention Council.

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.

I-safe is a website that offers help in curriculum, lesson planning, technology support, and even professional support. There are videos, powerpoints, and tons of information and suggestions that are offered and they are all appropriate and approved for teacher use. There are many options that align with standards as well. There is a teacher section, an education section, a store scetion, and a student section that teachers can have students use for extra support.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

This website offers many links to valuable websites while giving you the basics on topics such as identity theft, general internet safety, internet privacy, and cyberbullying

Teaches you how to train your children to use the internet safely and avoid identity thieves, viruses, and how to create complex passwords that are easy for you to remember and difficult for others to crack.

I liked this site. It's geared toward parents but makes suggestions of where to put the computer in your home to prevent teens from accessing inappropriate sites. It also gives you conversation starter tips on what to say to your children to keep them safe online. There are also videos you can watch about internet safety and the importance of keeping personal information private.

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.

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.