internet safety; a guide for parents & teachers

Unlimited Educational Resources Learning about other places and cultures Stay in touch with family and friends

Web Pages, Chat Rooms, Email, Video Conferencing & Sharing, Photo Sharing (Flickr, Picasa, etc.), Blogging

Make new friends Chat Rooms, Video Sharing (YouTube, etc.), Photo Sharing,

Blogs Work from home More can be accomplished in less time

Business Transactions Researching Communication Purchasing Monitoring Bank Accounts & Stocks

Text Messaging (SMS – Short

Messaging Service) Web Pages E-mail Instant Messaging –

AOL IM, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Messenger, ICQ, etc.

Blogging – MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, yFly, Twitter, etc.

Podcasting – iTunes, Podcast Directory.com, etc.

Video Sharing – YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, etc.

Wikis – Wikipedia, PB Wiki, etc.

Gaming Communities – Runescape, etc.

Also known as Short Message Service (SMS), a service available on most digital mobile phones and other mobile devices that permits the sending of short text messages.

“Ooh look, his first text message.”

www.wikipedia.com

Also known as IM, a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.

www.wikipedia.com

AOL Instant Messenger

ICQ MSN

Messenger Windows

Messenger Yahoo IM Google Talk Skype

You’re a model? Cool! I’m a Chippendale’s Dancer. I also race

speed boats. What’s your sign?

A user-generated website where entries are made in journal style. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news.

www.wikipedia.com

MySpace Xanga Friendster Facebook Tagged yFly Bebo YouTube

(video sharing) Flickr (photo

sharing)

A media file that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds (RSS), for playback on portable media players and personal computers.

www.wikipedia.com

iTunes Podcasts Podcast Net The Podcast

Network Podcast

Directory Podcast Alley Podcast Pickle iPodder.org Yahoo Podcasts Podcasting

News

A website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Wikipedia PBwiki TWiki Yu-Gi-Oh!

Wikia FlexWiki Wikia WikiBios

Attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Typically carried out using email or an instant message, and often directs users to a website.

A hacker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another (bogus) website.

Pharming has become of major concern to businesses hosting ecommerce and online banking websites

Spam refers to junk e-mail or unsolicited e-mail.

Similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, mobile phone messaging spam, etc.

Bullying and harassment by use of electronic devices though means of e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, blogs, mobile phones, pagers, and websites.

Cyberbullying: Feathers in the Wind

Peer-to-peer or file-sharing programs allow you to share you files with others on the Internet – and vice versa. Be wary about downloading files just as you would

an e-mail attachment from a stranger File-sharing networks create a risk for computer

viruses or harmful code to be shared Movies, songs, video games and other items on the

Web are protected by copyright laws If misconfigured, some file-sharing programs may

expose your entire hard drive to all other users of the file-sharing software.

LimeWire Morpheus Kazaa

Make sure your computer is located in a high-traffic area in the house. This includes laptops and other wireless devices

Communicate with your children about what pornography is and why it is inappropriate for them.

Teach your child “Internal Filtering Mechanisms” and how to avoid pornography on the Web.

Check your home computer for signs that these types of sites have visited

Your computer has a powerful search function which can indicate if someone has visited pornographic Web sites. In Windows, click on the Start button in the lower left hand of your monitor, and slide up to search, and slide over to "files and folders."

Select “All files and folders” from the window that appears.

You can inspect the folder where cookies are to look for any lewdly-named or suspicious cookies. Type in the word cookie in the search field and hit "search now." Make sure the "Look in" setting is set to look in your primary hard drive, usually "C," although you may want to repeat the search in any additional hard drives.

Most Web images are in a format that ends with either .jpg or .gif, such as "bicycle.jpg" or "vase.gif". When you view a Web site, these images are stored in various places on your hard drive. To find all such images in your hard drive, put an asterisk followed by a period in front of the name of the image format in the search window.

Open your web browser (Internet Explorer) and select “Tools” and “InternetOptions”

Select “Settings” from the “Browsing history” section.

Select “View files” and a list of cookies and picture files will appear and show the web sites where the files originated.

*Note: if there are very few of them, someone is most likely deleting them from the Temporary Internet Files folder.

Explain that there is explicit material on the Internet, but it is not appropriate for the child to view or seek it out

Search engine results, even for innocent topics, may occasionally include links to inappropriate Web sites

Teach your child to recognize lewd wording and other clues to avoid actually viewing the sites

Teach them to recognize and avoid opening sexually-explicit spam email

Bookmark child-safe Web sites – Yahooligans, Ask Kids, Kids Click, etc.

Teach children to never open e-mail from someone they don't know.

If you or your child receives a message that is harassing, of a sexual nature, or threatening, forward a copy of the message to your ISP, and ask for assistance.

Develop household rules for use of the computer: How much time is allowed on the Web Acceptable vs. unacceptable activities What information should not be given out What the child should do if something makes him

or her uncomfortable Be a good role model; technology savvy children

may be able to tell if a parent has visited sexually-explicit sites

Create an environment where the child can confide in you without fear of being punished

Your Web browser software (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.) contains very little or NO history.

There are several Web browsers installed on your computer.

Temporary files are deleted from the temporary folder

Web Browser search bar history is deleted

Software filters work by blocking access to Web sites with unacceptable content or language. They are imperfect and depend to some extent on the Web sites' honesty in classifying themselves as x-rated.

Examples:•Net Nanny•Cyber Patrol•Surf Patrol

“The Government’s Launched a free Online filter to protect

children from Internet Nasties…Um…Could you show me how to

download it…?”

Keystroke tracking programs are spy software that monitor every word typed, every program launched and every Web site visited. They do not censor the content, but rather send a report to the parent or person who installed the spy program.

Examples:•Investigator•Spector Pro•Key Ghost

“I just can’t communicate with my child anymore. It’s like she speaks another language.”

Learn the Lingo – Learn text Messaging (SMS)

Take Interest & Be Approachable

Be Willing to Try New Things Create Your Own Blog

or Web site Post to Groups & Wikis Subscribe to Podcasts

Ask Your Children to Teach You

Keep Communication Lines Open

“Amy’s Choice”

“Julie’s Journey”

“Friends 24 Hours a Day” “Addicted to Facebook”

MySpace Parent Sitehttp://www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/Pages/SafetyTips.aspx#

Facebook Parent Sitehttp://www.facebook.com/help.php?tab=safety

Go to www. myspace. com

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Select “Safety Tips”

There are two tabs located on the page that appears.

One of the tabs is labeled “Safety Tips.” There are several links to other websites that will help.

The other tab is labeled “Tips for Parents.” Select this tab.

Read through the tips for parents and the several links to websites for parents.

There is also a link to remove your child’s profile from this site.

http://markwhite85.googlepages.com/internetsafety