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Get Game Smart
Microsoft is proud to have led the effort to create and build in safety measures that enable parents to choose the right games, content and online access settings for their families.
The Get Game Smart Campaign is a new approach to helping parents and their children get on the same page about making smart media choices.
Using new methods and messengers, the Campaign inspires families to take simple, but important steps that can help ensure that their kids' media experiences are safer, healthy and balanced.
The Get Game Smart Family Challenge offers incentives for parents and kids to work together on fun activities that will improve their knowledge about gaming and online safety, and help them create household agreements for media use ...along with easy ways to enforce them!
The Campaign Web site provides tips and information from the nation's leading experts and organizations. This site gives parents the information and resources they need to manage media in their homes.
Find out what your teen is doing online - MSNBC
In this excerpt from “What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs to Know,” Debra W. Haffner addresses what parents can do to help their teens navigate the Internet, specifically, social networking.
Answers to Your Sexting Questions - ABC News
Internet safety expert Parry Aftab answers your questions about teens and sexting. (Featuring the mother of suicide victim Jesse Logan. This is a very insightful discussion by parents and kids about sexting.) From an April 15, 2009 broadcast.
YouTube - Cybersafety/Cyberbullying Playlist
This is a playlist that I have compiled of videos dealing with Cybersafety, Cyberbullying, Internet Safety, Bullying, Social Networks.
Digital Citizenship - CA School Library Association's wiki of resources
The purpose of this site is to provide a central staging area for weblinks and documents to assist in the teaching students to become responsible DIGITAL CITIZENS.We invite your collaboration and additions to the pages.
Working to Halt Online Abuse Kid/Teen Division
WHOA Kids/Teen Division is the offshoot of WHOA, a volunteer organization founded in 1997, to fight online bullying, harassment and stalking of Kids and Teens. We do this through the education of parents, teachers, the general public, law enforcement, and others, as well as letting victims know they are not alone. We've formulated voluntary policies which we encourage schools and online communities to adopt in order to create a safe and welcoming environment for all.
Sex and Tech: Results from a survey of teens and young adults, by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
In an effort to better understand the intersection
between sex and cyberspace with respect to attitudes
and behavior, The National Campaign to
Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com
commissioned a survey of teens and young adults to explore
electronic activity. This is the first public study of its kind to
quantify the proportion of teens and young adults that are
sending or posting sexually suggestive text and images.
McGruff's Resources for Parents
The National Crime Prevention Council's site for parent resources. Check the sidebar for links to more on Bullying, Internet Safety, Social Networking, and Technology tips for families.
Protect Our Kids on the Web
The “Protect Our Kids on the Web” campaign, sponsored by Panda Security, aims to build awareness about the evolving online behaviors of children and their families, and keep them safe through a combination of research, best practices and community advocacy. Links are provided for parents and teachers.
iKeepSafe Internet Safety Coalition
The Internet Keep Safe Coalition is a broad partnership of governors and/or first spouses, attorneys general, public health and educational professionals, law enforcement, and industry leaders working together for the health and safety of youth online. iKeepSafe® uses these unique partnerships to disseminate safety resources to families worldwide.
Mission
To give parents, educators, and policymakers the information and tools which empower them to teach children the safe and healthy use of technology and the Internet.
Vision
To see generations of the world’s children grow up safely using technology and the Internet.
iKeepSafe educational resources teach children of all ages in a fun, age-appropriate way, the basic rules of Internet safety, ethics, and the healthy use of connected technologies.
NetSmartz411
NetSmartz411 is parents' and guardians' premier, online resource for answering questions about Internet safety, computers, and the Web.
Search our knowledge base for answers to all of your questions about the online world! If you can't find what you're looking for, use the "Ask the Experts" tab to send us a new question.
NetSmartz.org
This site holds a multitude on resoures, games, animations, and lessons appropriate for children, teens, parents, educators, and law enforcement.
i-SAFE Inc.
i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. i-SAFE incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place.
FRONTLINE: Growing Up Online | PBS
Just how radically is the Internet transforming the experience of childhood? This one-hour video program is broken into seven chapters, including ones dealing with identity, social networking, classrooms, living online, predators, and cyberbullying. This is a "must-watch!"
FBI-SOS: Safe Online Surfing
The FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) Internet Challenge is a program designed to help teach students and parents about internet safety. The goal of this program is to ensure that participants (students) can recognize and avoid potential dangers associated with the internet while using services such as discussion boards, instant messaging, social networking sites and chat rooms.
The program addresses and defines topics serious in nature such as seduction, child pornography, solicitation, exploitation, obscenity and online predators.
Digital Citizenship - from Common Sense Media
Deep list of resources: tips on video and in print, for parents and educators.
Cyber Safety for Children
Cyber Safety for Children is a partnership between the California Office of Privacy Protection and the California Coalition on Children’s Internet Safety. The members of the Coalition bring a pool of knowledge and experience, as they are among the leading experts in their fields. With the help of the Coalition, the Office of Privacy Protection provides this Web site of resources for parents, educators, and community leaders. We also offer a series of educational programs for parents and educators.
CTAP4 Cybersafety - Recommended Reading for Parents & Teachers
Great resources. You can print this list out and distribute it at your next PTA meeting - or provide a link for parents from your school or district web site.
Cyber-bullying - Bullying - from U.S. Dept. of HHS
Many teens today, especially girls, use technology to bully others. In fact, one study found that twice as many girls as boys had bullied someone online. This site is part of girlshealth.gov.
ConnectSafely
This site hosts a forum where parents, teens, experts, and you can discuss safe socializing on the Web and mobile devices. Be sure to watch their short, silly videos.
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