tech boot camp 10.3.11
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Safe Searching for Information, Images, and Video; YouTube SafetyTRANSCRIPT
TECHNOLOGY BOOT CAMP
MARSHA HARRISMEGAN HOWARD
(AND SPECIAL GUEST, EMERSON)
Safe Searching and YouTube for Kids
Emerson – Trinity Sixth Grader
Safe Searching and Technology:
A Sixth Grade Student’s Perspective
YouTube: Safety Mode
Gives users the option to choose not to see mature content that they may find offensive
Blocks videos with mature content or that have been age-restricted from appearing in video search, related videos, playlists, shows and films.
Uses community flagging to hide objectionable comments and porn-image detection to identify and hide inappropriate content.
Does not remove content from the site but keeps it off the page for users who opt in to Safety Mode
YouTube: Why Safety Mode
Auto Fill (or) Auto Complete in YouTube
Multiple Browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Etc)
Collapsed Comments (words and links)
From “Barbie” to “Barbies” to “Barbies Today”
Safe Searching at Trinity
School-wide: Barracuda Web Filter – hardware Instruction in Tech Lab and Classrooms
Sixth Grade Tablet PC: Webroot – school-installed software which
filters content from the cloud/internet to their personal computer. It follows them EVERYWHERE.
Instruction in Classrooms and Media Classes
Monitoring/Filtering/Blocking Software
Blocks specific sites per your requestTracks sites visitedFilters specific words/phrases
YouTube and Video Alert! It’s very difficult to filter VIDEO content without specific tags and/or comments attached to it.
Filtering, Blocking and Monitoring
They don’t catch everythingThey catch too muchKids can defeat themKids resent themThey give you a false sense of securityThey’re a form of censorship There’s always a friend’s (or brother or
sister’s) computer
Proximity and Time
Ultimately YOU are in control of what your children are doing online!
Family Computer Location?How long are they online? Some monitoring
software can control this.
Browsers and Search Engines for Kids
BrowsersKidZuiPicLukKido’z
Search Engines
Talk to Your Kids
Help kids find positive and safe sites Kidzui (kid friendly search engine)
Don’t let your young children search alone YOU are the best filter
Find the right filter Net Nanny, CYBERsitter, and CyberPatrol all have
good reviewsSet the content filters on your browser
Safari, Explorer, Firefox, ChromeSet the content filters on your search engine
Google, Bing, Yahoo
Google Safe Search
How to Enable Google SafeSearch Filter1. Go to Google Search Preferences page.2. In the SafeSearch Filtering section, choose the SafeSearch level you’d like to use:
Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only – default behavior)
Do not filter my search results3. Click “Save Preferences” at the bottom of the page.
Virtual Trinity
Subscription Websites that require a username and password can be found on the Virtual Trinity section of Trinity’s website (www.trinityatl.org)
Visit Virtual Trinity on the web to utilize this great resource.
Google Suggestions
http://www.google.com/familysafety/
QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? IDEAS?
MARSHA HARRIS ([email protected])
MEGAN HOWARD([email protected])
Now It’s Your Turn!