1. Emily Snyder, William Darras, Stephanie Berger
Internet Safety
Emily Snyder, William Darras, Stephanie Berger

2. Video

3. Internet Safety Issues
Cyber Bullying

4. Issues Continued Exposure to inadequate material Sexual Material
Racial Material
Wikipedia
wikipedia.com

5. Posting Personal Information Online
Issues Continued
Posting Personal Information Online
Identity theft
Social networking
Facebook
Myspace
Dating sites

6. Issues Continued Exposure to spam and viruses E-mails
Clicking on advertisements and other websites
Illegally downloading music
Using unknown cleaners
Downloading animations

7. Chat rooms and Blogging
Issues Continued
Chat rooms and Blogging
May lead to unwanted predators
Over half of year olds visit chat rooms and one third of those kids visit private or adult chat areas
15% of youth have met an internet friend in person and most of them went alone

8. Laws in Assuring Safe Internet Use
S Safe Internet Act: promotes internet safety education and cybercrime prevention initiatives and for other purposes

9. Laws Continued
COPPA- Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act: websites that are prohibited from collecting information from persons under 18 without parental consent

10. Rules for Online Safety
Do not give out internet password to anyone

11. Rules Continued
Do not give out personal information such as address, telephone number, name, location of school, etc.

12. Rule Continued
Do not respond to any messages that are mean in any way and make you feel uncomfortable

13. Our suggestions to schools and parents
Become computer literate and learn how to block objectionable material
Keep the computer in a common area where you can monitor the user
Share an account with your child
Block certain websites on school computers

14. Traits of Good Digital Citizenship
Preventing Plagiarism
Using Copyrights: giving credit where it is needed
Respect
Honesty
Responsibility
Self-worth