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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.

Full Option Science System. Website for science teachers with online resources and online activities for students. Free with a teacher user/pass. Good smartboard and interactive activities students can participate in. Contains links or other info related to the topics for inquiry.

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.

This is an AWESOME website for parents, teachers and students to use in order to remain safe online. I really like how many tips are provided for parents. The website breaks down tips for how much independence and use online children should be provided. While exploring the site, I thought that it was very helpful and user friendly. Overall, if I were a parent this website would be very helpful.

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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'.

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.

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.

This is a huge collection of online tools that both you and your students can use. It categorizes the tools for you so you can search easier. All in all, a great tool for classroom use!

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

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.

Empressr is a web-based application similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. This application is free and allows its users to create and upload slideshows online. Empressr allows users to incorporate media (e.g. video, images, and audio) into their presentations. One special feature of Empressr is the use of Flash to stream videos to make slideshows more dynamic by expanding its media limitations

Schoology is a free service that allows you to create a social network-type environment for online instruction. Think of it as a combination of Moodle and Facebook and you've got a pretty good idea of what it is like.

To get more into the service, you need to create an account. If you don't want to (or can't for some reason) create an account, but are interested in the service, let me know and I will get you access.

A site with a list of links to other sources about the human body, including activities, online textbooks, interactive sites, picture sites, etc.

online tool used to create photographic slideshows. Allows the use of background music, captions, and comments to go along with the photos. Easy to use; upload photos or images, put them in order, add music & captions, all through an easy use interface. Allows users to upload their slideshows to blogs, websites, email, facebook, etc. Teachers can use to present information in a different way; students can use to create slideshows about what they know or what they've learned.

This is a great interactive website for kids, parents and teachers. It offers videos and games to help kids stay safe while online and in many other ways also.

Lot of topic to keep kids safe online. Applies more to parent to keep kids safe using the internet.

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 site can be used for teachers and students to introduce internet safety. Teachers can purchase these videos and online games for students to use to play games that show the dangers of the internet.

This site has online math tools for several different types of calculators and converters.

Teens do use Web MD so it makes sence to have advice to protect teens from online predators. Is built for the secondary level reader. Information is in bullet form with links at the end for reporting strange or inappropriate online contact.