1. Keller Police Department Keller ISD Technology
Cyber Home
Keller Police Department
Keller ISD Technology
Good Evening. We are glad that you are joining us this evening.
Lisa Ham
Detective Tom Barnett of the Keller Police Department

2. Cyber Safety @ Home Topics
Parent-Child Technology Gap
Cyber Activities
Cyber Risks
Warning Signs
Parent Tips
Cyber Predators
What to do if you are a victim
These are the topics that we will be talking about tonight.

3. Parent-Child Generation Gap
Parents’ Beliefs
87% say they have established rules for their kids Internet use
54% feel they are limited to monitor and shelter their kids from inappropriate material
69% feel they know a lot about what their kids do on the Internet
31% have disciplined their child because of their Internet use
i-SAFE survey of 4,500
Lisa

4. Parent-Child Generation Gap
Students’ Reality
36% say parents/guardians have NOT made rules
41% do NOT share what they do and where they go
29% say their parent/guardian would disapprove of internet activities
36% have NOT discussed how to be safe on the Internet with their parent/guardian
22% say the computer they use most often is in their room
73% say there is a need for kids and teens to learn about Internet safety
i-SAFE survey of 55,000 students
Lisa

5. Cyber Activities Text Messaging Email
Blogging – MySpace, Xanga, Facebook
Instant Messaging
Chat Rooms
FTP- File Sharing – Limewire
Online Game Consoles – Wii, PS3
Lisa
Text Messaging – Cell phone
Blogging – Web Log – Common weblog pages are MySpace, Xanga, Facebook - Social networking website.
Tom will talk about these later.
Instant Messaging – IM- MSN, Yahoo, AOL– text messages that are delivered in real time.
Chat Rooms - online forum where people can chat online in real time.
FTP – File Sharing – security risk for your computer.

6. Know the Language Acronyms – BRB Initialisms – L8R
Emoticons - :) <3
Netlingo –
Leetspeak –
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|-|4/\/\
Lisa
Acronyms- many of these are in your program
Initialisms – they are initials but they are pronounced
Emoticons – use symbols to create pictures
Leetspeak - user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically. Many times numbers and symbols replace the letters they resemble.

7. Cyber Risks Privacy & Identity - Cookies Email Attachments - Viruses
Sharing of Personal Info - Teresa
Identity Theft/Fraud– common scams
Copyright Violation
Bullying and Harassment
Cyber Predators
Inappropriate content
Tom
Privacy - Most common offenses occur when people and organizations get information about you, sometimes without you realizing that it has happened.
Cookies - A cookie is a small file of information that web sites send to and from your browser to help the web site know where you’ve been and what you’ve done.
Often these cookies are useful to you. They keep track of whether or not you’ve signed into a service on the web, or the stage you are in when making a purchase online.
These cookies can also be used to track your movement on the web, and provide information to others that you may not want to share, like what sites you’ve browsed, what you have bought, or to whom you have given your credit card information.
- send unwanted pictures and information, viruses and scams – Open unsolicited
Sharing of Personal Information – Be careful what types of things that you post about yourself and others. Never post a picture of your self online.
Identity Theft- a person gets information about you and poses as you.
Internet Fraud – Tom will talk about this later
Copyright & Intellectual Property violation – music, copying and pasting text and photos for a report.
Cyber Predators

8. Warning Signs Child spends large amount of time online
You find pornography on the computer
Your child is receiving phone calls, gifts or mail from people you don’t know
Your child turns off the monitor when you come in the room
Your child is withdrawn from the family
Amy’s Choice
Lisa
Watch for these signs.

9. Tips for Parents Computer in the family room Observe online behavior
Set guidelines – No personal information
Understand services used by your child
Investigate blocking services and monitoring software
Spend time online with your child
Model appropriate netiquette
Learn about who your child meets online
Know their passwords
Lisa
Internet experience is not Life experience.
Parents need to know what their children are doing online. This will protect the children and your computer.
Tips from the Police – know their username and password.
Set guidelines
amount of time spent online
types of sites they can visit
giving out personal information
posting pictures
who they talk to online

10. Why is the Internet so attractive to criminals?
There are many reasons:
Access to the internet is relatively unrestricted
Online activities are unregulated
Criminals can maintain anonymity
Large number of targets
Difficult to investigate or prosecute
Multi-million dollar industry
There are many reasons why the internet is so attractive to criminals. Amy’s Choice is a video about a lonely young girl who gets involved in an online relationship.
Internet Porn is a $2.84 Billion business
There are no laws to prosecute against ebay fraud. yet

11. What to do if you are a victim. . .
Take Action
Call the Police Department
Keep the evidence
Cancelled checks, money order stubs, credit card receipts, telephone bills, mailing envelopes, brochures, faxes, mailing receipts
Paper receipts, printouts of electronic receipts, printouts of chat rooms, printouts of
When requested to provide evidence, send only copies and retain originals
The Internet Fraud Complaint Center
Tom

12. Cyber Predators Befriend children Determine their likes and dislikes
Break down their inhibitions
Entice the child into having sex
Send money/tickets to the child

13. Where does the solicitation take place?
Computer Location
70% at home
22% someone else’s house
4% school
3% library
Internet
65% Chat rooms
24% Instant Messaging

14. What to do if you are approached online?
Contact an adult – parent, counselor, school resource officer
Do not erase conversations
Know address and user name
Do not initiate another conversation
Tom

15. Keller ISD N2H2 Internet Filtering Professional Development
Presentations to teachers and counselors
Student Training
Developing Elementary Curriculum
Computer Literacy courses
Internet Safety Week -May 8-12
Parent Training
Brochures available
PTA Meetings
Lisa

16. Other Resources Internet Safety Resources
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Netsmartz
I Safe
Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Lisa
There are many online resources available on the topic. These are just a few

17. Who to Call Keller Police Department Keller ISD Detective Tom Barnett
Keller ISD
Joe Griffin, Executive Director of Technology
Lisa Ham, Director of Instructional Technology
Lisa
This is our contact information if you have questions or concerns.