Internet Safety

M White on April 21st, 2011

I recently came across a great PDF publication titled, A Parent’s Guide to Facebook found on this site-http://www.connectsafely.org/Safety-Advice-Articles/facebook-for-parents.html It goes over all those things I wish I could tell parents and much more! A great resource to add to your own website, share with your Home & School group or post to your school’s Facebook [...]

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Jill Elfering on March 16th, 2011

I just had a chance to test out the new “restrict email delivery” setting in Google Apps for my student domain.  We haven’t had the email service enabled for students prior to this because I couldn’t get Postini to work the way I wanted last year to allow mail only from within our student domain [...]

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Wendy Mitchell on March 9th, 2011

What are schools using as resources for Internet safety? fbi-sos.org Common Sense Media- http://www.commonsensemedia.org/ Carnegie Cadets – http://www.carnegiecyberacademy.com/ Netsmartz

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M White on November 4th, 2009

Guidelines for what is required of teachers / parents / website owners in the age of COPPA. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec10.pdf

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Research Study We need to have a better awareness on how to educate on cyberbullying.  Graduate students in counseling and education came together in this project.  Cyberbullying “refers to bullying via electronic communications tools.” Seven Types Flaming Harassment Denigration Cyberstalking Impersonation or Masquerading Outing or Trickery Exclusion Trends Age: increases in elementary years, peaks in [...]

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