Internet Safety

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Internet Safety

• Overview/Agenda
• Understand what our children are doing online
• Understand what they are seeing online
• Understand what we can do to be more aware

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Internet Safety

• Djamal Balbed
• Technology Specialist
• balbedd_at_fultonschools.org

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Internet Safety

• Instant Messaging
• Monitoring Software
• Social Networking Sites
• Cyberbullying
• Peer to Peer Sites
• Spyware
• Solutions

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Instant Messaging

• An Internet technology that lets you receive
  messages, files, and other data in real time
• The "instant" in instant messaging is possible
  because the people sending and receiving messages
  remain constantly connected to their IM service

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Instant Messaging

• IM Quiz
• LOL
• BRB
• A/S/L
• POS
• P911
• Online Lingo

Laugh Out Loud
Be Right Back
Age/Sex/Location
Parent Over Shoulder
Parent alert
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Real Life Stories

• Online Videos of real life stories
• http//www.netsmartz.org/resources/reallife.htm

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Online Risks

• Nudity or sexually explicit material
• Adult pornography
• Child pornography
• Sexual exploitation or enticement
• Other illegal activities

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Internet Software

• Internet Monitoring Software
• PC Tattletale (http//www.pctattletale.com/)
• Internet Filtering Software
• NetNanny (http//www.netnanny.com/)
• CyberSitter (http//www.cybersitter.com)
• Google Search Filter
• Go to preferences and set to Safe Search

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Social Networking Sites

• Sites where people can meet, communicate and
  interact with each other
• Extremely popular with middle schoolers
• Blogs
• Chat Rooms
• The Mall

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Social Networking Sites

• Most Popular Sites
• MySpace
• Facebook
• Xanga
• Friendster

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Social Networking Sites

• Number of users on MySpace Anywhere from 40
  to 140 million
• Why is this important?
• Bought by NewsCorp in 2005 for 580 million.
• Has come under fire from child protection groups.

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Cyber Bullying

• The use of the Internet to harass or bully others
• Online Video
• http//www.netsmartz.org/resources/reallife.htm

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Peer to Peer Sites

• Allows users to share files of different types
• iMesh
• Limewire

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Spyware

• Any software that covertly gathers user
  information through the user's Internet
  connection without his or her knowledge, usually
  for advertising purposes.
• Spyware applications are typically bundled as a
  hidden component of freeware or shareware
  programs that can be downloaded from the
  Internet. Once installed, the spyware monitors
  user activity on the Internet and transmits that
  information in the background to someone else.

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Solutions

• Dont just take kids off the Internet
• Educate them
• Ask lots of questions about their online
  activities
• Have them sign an Internet Safety Pledge
• Use safe blogging tips
• Use Internet Software

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Additional Studies

• Escaping or Connecting
• Cyberbullying
• Blog Beware

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Web Resources

• www.netsmartz.org
• www.safekids.com
• FBI Internet Safety Manual
• Chatdanger.com
• Getnetwise.org
• Childnet-int.org