Keeping Your Child Safe on the Internet

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Keeping Your Child Safe on the Internet
Online Safety Video
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Children Love the Internet

• Great way to have lots of different kinds of fun
• Children are growing up with the internet as a
  normal part of life
• The internet has become a vital tool

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What We Want to Learn

• Give you general information about the internet,
  including some of the things your child can do
  online
• Explain action you can take as a parent or care
  giver to keep your family safe online
• Highlight safety tips you can talk over with your
  child

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What If I Dont Know Much About the Internet?

• Use your parenting skills to keep your child safe
• Research to gain a better understanding of the
  opportunities and challenges of the internet
• Keep talking to your child. Your continued
  involvement is the best way to keep your child
  safe

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How Can My Child Get on The Internet?

• Mobile phones
• Friends mobile phones
• Computers at home
• Computers at School
• Gaming consoles
• Handheld games

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Mobile Phones

• Can be used to visit websites including chat
  rooms
• Can access internet instantly
• Can take pictures and video and let you send
  these via email
• Children need to think carefully before sending
  images of themselves or friends

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Kids and the Internet

• In 1997 there were already 10 million children
  accessing the Internet.
• The Internet can be a source of terrific
  educational possibilities, and very scary
  situations.
• Your child can be a pen pal to a 10 year old boy
  in India, or a pen pal to a 48 year old man
  posing as an 11 year old girl.

These are children UNDER 12 years of age.
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What Can I Do to Keep My Child Safe?

• Talk with your children about their internet use
• Nothing in life is 100 safe all the time, and
  the internet is no different
• Parental control is really
• a MUST.

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How can you see where they have been?

• Set up the Internet History
• Open the Internet
• Go to Tools/Internet Options
• Make sure the Days to keep pages in history
  setting is fairly high

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• If you suspect your child has accessed
  inappropriate areas, check the history
• Click on the History Icon (this may look
  different on other systems)
• Check the sites listed-make sure they are
  familiar and appropriate

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Checking History in Firefox

• Click on History on top menu
• Click on Show all history to see last few days
  and weeks.

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Safety Settings on Mac

• Click on Parental Controls in System Preferences

• Create an account for your child

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Mac settings (cont)

• Open Parental Controls and adjust your settings
  as desired

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What Can My Child Do on the Internet?

• Find out information
• Get in touch with others
• Play online games
• Buy online

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What Are the Risks?

• Internet Contacts
• Internet Content
• Viruses and Hackers

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What Do I Need to Know About Online Friends?

• How do children make friends online?
• Other ways of making contact over the internet
• One to one conversations
• What if my child wants to meet
• someone they met in a chat room?

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Social Networking

• Some well-known Social Networking sites
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter
• Diigo
• Friendster

• Dos and Donts
• Dont friend people that you dont know.
• Dont let everyone see what you post.
• Do be careful about what you post
• Do remember that everything stays online

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Social Networking
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Privacy Settings
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Online Gaming

• Online gaming can be done on variety of devices,
  not just computers.
• Mobile phones, Nintendo DS, Xbox, Playstation
  Portable, WII, etc.

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Children connect with others, they all load the
same game and playagainst each other.
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Chat Rooms

• What if they hear something unpleasant in a chat
  room?
• Are some chat rooms more suitable than others?
• What about supervised chat rooms?
• What if someone sends my child information?
• If I see something illegal or suspicious, should
  I report it?

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What is Cyber Bullying?
"Cyberbullying" is when a child is tormented,
threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or
otherwise targeted by another child using the
Internet, interactive and digital technologies or
mobile phones.
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What Can You Do About Cyber Bullying?

• Do not respond to rude or harassing emails.
• Keep copies of all emails for proof and contact
  your local law inforcement or ISP if necessary.
• Use web sites that translate the lingo your
  children are sending and receiving.
• Block harassing emails
• Delete their current account and open a new one.
  The new address should only be given to a few
  trusted people.

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Web Playgrounds for the Very Young.
http//www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/31virtu
al.html
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Web Playgrounds of the Very Young

• Sites
• Webkinz
• Neopets
• Club Penquin
• Nicktropolis
• Disney
• Safety tips handouts

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Disney and NictropolisSocial Sites for the Very
Young
http//www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-26-nicke
lodeon-disney-social-sites_x.htm
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Your Action Checklist

• Make sure your child knows the most important
  safety messages of all

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NEVER go alone to meet someone youve met online
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NEVER reveal any personal contact details
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The Checklist

• There is no substitute for supervision
• Talk to your child
• Pass along the safety advice
• Be positive!
• Let your child know they can come to you
• Try not to overreact
• Computer location
• This all applies to going online with a mobile
  phone
• If you decide to use software to filter or
  monitor information, talk it over with your child
  and set ground rules that are mutually agreed
  upon.

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Filtering and Monitoring

• Firewall Zonelabs www.zonelabs.com
• Protection Software www.getnetwise.org
• Filtering www.alafilter.com

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Can Unsuitable Material Be Blocked?

• What software is available
• Top 10 Filters
• Well Researched Reviews
• What can this software do?

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For Children

• SafeKids.com Internet safety tips www.safekids.
  com
• Cybertipline Report suspected sexual abuse or
  pedophiles online www.childtipline.com

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Safety Advice

• National Center for Missing and Exploited
  Children www.missingkids.com
• Childnet Useful online resources and leaflets
  for young people and adults. www.childnet-int.or
  g www.chatdanger.com

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Report Child Abuse Online

• Contact your local Police
• www.cybertipline.com
• National Center for Missing and Exploited
  Children- 800.843.5678

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Translation Websites

• http//www.urbandictionary.com/
• Urban Dictionary
• http//transl8it.com/cgi-win/index.pl
• Translate It. com

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