Digital Safety and Awareness
Wednesday morning we had a Parent Association meeting held in TechConnect, discussing Digital Safety and Awareness for parents and students.
Thank you to Kate Olsen for her wonderful resource list on Parent Workshop Resources Wiki
MySpace
- MySpace
- MySpace Parent Page - also see additional links in the sidebar of the MySpace Parent Page
- MySpace Safety Videos
Other Popular Sites
Parent Resources
- CyberSafe Kids, CyberSavvy Teens
- Parents - Safe Surf
- SafeTeens
- CyberSmart!
- Growing Up Online - PBS Frontline
- WiredSafety Parent Page
- Easy Way to Monitor Your Child on MySpace - CoolCatTeacher Blog
- IKeepSafe.org Parent Resource Center
- Understanding a Child's Virtual World (includes videos) - Incredible Internet/Qwest
- Is Your Child Using YouTube? - Vanessa Van Petten
- NetSmartz411:Internet Safety Help (answers to common questions)
- I-Safe Parent-to-Parent
- WebWiseKids Parents Site
- Stop Cyberbullying - Parent's Role
- NetSmartz Real Life Stories - includes videos and news stories
- Safe Kids
- Wired Kids
In the News
- "Digital Kids Ditch Homework for Networking" The Guardian, March 3, 2008
- "How Dangerous is the Internet for Children?" New York Times, February 28, 2008
- "Six-year-olds 'Addicted to Technology'" Herald Sun, February 29, 2008
- "Social Networking Sites Offer New Ways to Connect" Onalaska Life, February 28, 2008
- "Harvard Scholars to Explore Net Safety" New York Times, February 28, 2008
- "Social Networking Sites, A Parent Trap?" WDTV5, Bridgeport/Clarksburg, WV, February 25, 2008
- "What's the draw of MySpace?" The Daily Aztec, February 26, 2008
- "Study Rejects Internet Sex Predator Stereotype" MSNBC, February 18, 2008
- "Drunken College Immortalize their Nights on Facebook" ABC News, February 19, 2008
- "Students Stage Fights to be King of YouTube Ring" Wichita Falls Online, February 18, 2008
- "Some Give up MySpace and Facebook for Lent" The Virginian-Pilot, February 17, 2008
- "Facing up to the future" Herald Sun, February 17, 2008
- "Is MySpace Good For Society? A Freakonomics Quorum" New York Times, February 16, 2008
- "Social Networking Sites Safer than IM or Chat Rooms" - Washington Post, February 1, 2008
- "Generation MySpace Getting Fed Up" - Business Week, February 7, 2008
- "MySpace Bug Leaks "Private" Teen Photos to Voyeurs" - Wired, January 17, 2008
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