1. Emily Snyder, William Darras, Stephanie Berger

2.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erY2mtfY 40Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erY2mtfY 40Y

3.  Cyber Bullying www.cyberbullying.org

4.  Exposure to inadequate material  Sexual Material  Racial Material  Wikipedia wikipedia.com

5. Posting Personal Information Online  Identity theft  Social networking  Facebook  Myspace  Dating sites

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

7. Issues Continued  Chat rooms and Blogging  May lead to unwanted predators  Over half of 11-12 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.  S.1047- Safe Internet Act: promotes internet safety education and cybercrime prevention initiatives and for other purposes

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

10.  Do not give out internet password to anyone

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

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

13.  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 e-mail 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