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Tips for online safety. Links to audio file with advice from McGruff (aimed at parents), printable safety pledge, online comic book safety scenario, "Shrink the Cyber Bully" and "Internet Safety" games.

The internetsafetygame http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=1391 is from the AT and T website. It's a game with a villain and a hero. The player is the hero trying to catch the villain doing bad things online in 8 different ways. It's very child friendly.

An internet safety website obviously intended for elementary age children to learn the basics about internet safety. You follow "Captain Broadband" around to 8 different sites answering questions about internet safety. When you answer all questions correctly, you can print off a certificate that must make elementary children feel good about themselves.

Great site for internet safety for all ages. This site offers a special kids link for an animated web tour on internet safety and other ways they can remain safe. On the main internet safety link it offers a variety of links and documents.

Webwisekids has resources for teaching Internet safety that are appropriate for middle school to high school age children. Online videos and lesson plans help make it easier to plan lessons to teach about Internet safety. The stories used do not sound contrived or artificial at all, and are definitely worth checking out. The ability to order games to reinforce the concepts taught through the lessons is an added bonus that might make this an attractive option for teaching about safety.

The site has a wide array of information from simulations that teachers/parents can conduct with students/children, a list of dangers on the web, true stories of children and child predators, and a list of ways to prevent online child victimization.

This site offers safety tips through videos and games. Real-life scenarios are presented to reinforce the basic tips being taught. The examples given are realistic, and can get otherwise naive students to be more aware of their activities on the internet. The online videos can be easily incorporated into any classroom at the start of the semester. This is a great resource for any child or teen.

Site has listing of lesson plans for internet safety orgainized by topic and grade level. The lessons include standards and downloadable pdf files of any worksheets. These are lessons about internet safety, not online lessons.

This is another safety website that I found. I like the left hand column that allows the user to search by topic. I thought that many of the topics (i.e. Is your child at risk) would be very helpful to parents that may not know a lot about internet safety. Overall, the website is kind of busy and contains a lot of unnecessary information. If I were to recommend this site to parents, I would tell them to read the left column by topic.

Cox has an internet safety area on their website with information on parental controls, tips on talking with your kids about internet safety, videos, and several other links.

Kids Health is a general site that covers many topics about kids, but it does dedicate four pages for parents to read about internet safety. Topics covered: Internet safety laws, online protection tools, getting Involved in kids' online activities, basic rules, chat room caution, and warning signs.

An article on internet safety for kids, parents, and teens. The article discusses online protection tools, rules, and warnings for internet use.

This website is a good resource for kids and parents to learn about online safety tips. This site also provides general tips for teens such as study tips, managing stress and staying healthy. There is also information on parenting teens and approaching difficult issues with kids.

This website not only has tips for internet safety but also many tips of all kinds of safety great source for all your family for all ages

This is a internet safety site that uncovers 6 simple and basic rules for kids to know while using the internet. They reveal these 6 safety rules are revealed through an interactive game. It is geared for primary grades K-3.

This series of cartoons, activities, and games teaches kids about Internet safety, cyberbullying, determining if information is valid, and the different types of media available on the Internet. Professor Garfield is a blast from the past for me, but the content is presented in such a way that kids of any age should appreciate it. It appears that this site is geared more for elementary age kids.

At first, I didn't realize that this was a government website. Users can look just by topics and then look by topics. The main purpose of the website is not just child safety online, but rather overall safety (i.e. avoiding identity theft). When the user looks at the child privacy portion of the site, parents are able to find several helpful and an easy to read site. Overall, I think this would be a great site for the novice internet user.

Article from eSchoolNews telling about Internet safety and ways to teach it effectively to students.

Good site for internet safety. Lots of down loadable presentations to use in the classroom. Also, extra material to put up in the classroom to remind students.

This site offers good resources for teachers, students, and parents about internet safety. I like the situation cards it gives as a resource for middle and high schools.

This site is a resource for teachers and parents on internet safety for younger students. There are many links to additional sites that provide much more detailed information. The advantage of this site is you don't have to search out all the different sites.

This site offers a bullet point list of science safety tips broken down into different areas of technology.

This site offers basic internet safety tips for children and teens. They are a good starting point for conversation between parents and kids on how to stay safe online.

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This is a cached version of page two of the online safety report article from eSchoolNews. Because you are required to have a (free) account to finish reading the article, I thought I would save everyone the step and just share the article. To view the cached version in Diigo, just click on the icon that says 'snapshot'.

Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, this is an interactive website for kids about how to stay safe on the internet.

This website gives parent's and educators tips on keeping kids safe online including topics such as email, browsing, chatting, and how parents can take control.

An online brochure with information about internet safety with internal links to the information in the brochure. The website is old, however, and some of the information is probably outdated as a result.