Sunshine Coast School District

Internet Safety

These links are used at workshops for students, staff, and parents.

As these references are updated, this page will update accordingly.

Internet Safety Resources for Parents, Teachers, and Students

• 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
  Some good tips for facebook users to protect themselves and their accounts
• Be Web Aware - Home
  For Parents ... a great deal of good information from a Canadian organization
• Be Web Aware - Home
  Information and resources for parents and teachers with a Canadian perspective.
• BlogSafety Community: Predators & cyberbullies: Reality ...
  A comment on the Dateline series, Predators. This is one entry on a blog devoted to internet safety.
• Connect Safely |A Parents' Guide to Facebook | Safety Advice Articles
  Guide for parents who want to work with their children on digital citizenship using Facebook
• Connect Safely |Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth | Commentaries - Staff
  Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing
• Cyberbullies - Google Scholar
  Wired Safety.org Teen Angels and other experts offer guidance for teachers and schools struggling with cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying - digizen.org
  Wonderfully done video set to an audio background.
• Flip.com: View cyberbullying hurts! | Upload, Create & Share on Flip
  Good resource for teens, parents, and teachers
• George Couros' Page with Cyberbullying Resources and Notes by gcouros
  Interesting use of Wallwisher to get resources regarding cyberbullying
• GetNetWise | Risks By Technology: Social networking sites
  Make Your Social Networking More Private
• Internet 101 - Internet Safety Tools - Police and Partners | Internet 101 - Outils pour la sécurité sur Internet - Police et Partenaires
  Canadian site for resources
• Internet Safety 101
  Police and partners . . . working together to web-proof our communities
• Internet Safety for Parents
  An initiative to educate Wyoming Middle School parents about the dangers their kids face online and offer tips to help protect them.
• Internet Safety Game for young students
  It can be difficult for children to understand the dangers of the Internet, but information presented in a fun, inviting format sometimes makes it easier to learn.
• Internet safety ideas
  Some new videos are located at this site
• InternetSafety.com Blog » Vicki Courtney’s Top Ten Facebook Don’ts For Parents
  Vicki Courtney has written extensively on raising girls and seeks to provide tweens, teens, and their parents with the tools
• Job candidates get tripped up by Facebook - School Inc. - MSNBC.com
  How the use of facebook might create difficulties for a user seeking a job
• Kids in the Know - What's New?
  Kids in the Know is an interactive safety education program for increasing the personal safety of children and reducing their risk of sexual exploitation
• LearnNowBC - Be The Change
  A cybersafe video produced by some students.
• Mark Wagner's Friday Links for March 16, 2007 - Internet Safety
  A collection of internet safety resources from Mark Wagner. Some are duplicates of my own tagged list, but there are enough new ones to make this a good overall resource.
• Mr. Sherman's Blog : Be Careful Out There
  A school principal talks about the need for students to learn to be careful on the internet
• Nancy Willard: Cyber Savvy: Why Teens Make Unsafe Choices
• National Cyber Security Awareness Month | STAYSAFEONLINE.org
  Ideas for parents and teachers around the concept of internet safety.
• New Study Analyzes Parental Practices Regarding Children's Internet Use
  Comment on the above study
• On-line personal information could cost you a job | WWAY NewsChannel 3 | Wilmington NC News
  Could be used with secondary students as part of CAPP or Internet studies.
• Parental Control and Internet Filtering Software
  Internet filtering solutions for parents, schools, businesses and libraries
• Printable Resources for Parents and Kids from Web Wise Kids
  Web Wise Kids is a nonprofit organization located in Southern California.
• Privacy tutorial for facebook
  follow this tutorial for good suggestions as to how to best protect yourself online with your facebook account.
• Protect Every Child :: Home
  Find out what you can do to protect your child BEFORE letting them operate on the Internet highway.
• PROTECTING CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
  From the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
• SafeKids
  Safety advice and tools
• SOLOS : Safe Online Outreach Society
  I attended a session where Merlyn was the presenter. Her website has a number of useful resources for youth, parents, educators, and community resources people.
• Stop Cyberbullying
  Wiki to have an ongoing discussion (with resources) about cyberbullying.
• STOP cyberbullying: Cyberbullying - what it is, how it works and how to understand and deal with cyberbullies
  Information for multiple age groups. Suitable for parents and students for discussion
• Teen Safety on the Information Highway
  A resource for teens to help them use the internet for fun
• That's Not CoolInteresting approach to taking a look at internet social network issues for teens.
• The Facebook EffectA good slideshare going over privileges on Facebook
• Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Control your Facebook privacy
  Control your Facebook privacy
• WiredSafety: the world's largest Internet safety, help and education resource.
  Information for teachers and parents with regard to cyberbullying
• Young Canadians in a Wired World - Phase II | Key Findings
  Canadian statistics on the use of the internet by school aged children in Canada
• Youth and Teens Today With Vanessa Van Petten: A Guide For Parenting Teenagers
• YouTube - eBullying - Every 7 Seconds
  Student produced cyberbullying video
• YouTube - Should Kids Be Driving Alone?
  Relates to use of the computer without adequate instruction
• » Changing my Tune - Internet Safety for Students Multi-faceted Refractions
  A "positive" approach to Internet Safety

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