Two Great Slices of Online Safety Education and Awareness
An uplifting post today: two great little presentations for online safety.
This video below comes from Protecting Kids Online (PKO), an awareness program (based in PA) designed to educate parents, caregivers, teachers and children about Internet safety. They have created a 22-minute Internet safety video on topics from understanding the serious repercussion of cyber-bullying to learning how to safeguard children from online predators. Click the link above to visit the site. Download this .pdf and watch the video below!
Then, check out this PowerPoint presentation from the Columbia High School Library Blog (New Jersey) put together by Elissa Malespina.
Both items are great. My final parting advice is, as always, to monitor your child’s Internet and overall computer usage and activity. You must know what they are doing, who they are talking to, where they are going, what they are saying about others and themselves, etc. The web (especially social networking) gives kids a forum/newspaper/megaphone to showcase themselves and others and have dialogues with anyone in the world. There is no reason for parents to not be aware of this representation and activity on the worldwide stage. Use PC Pandora monitoring software to know exactly what your kids are doing. Knowledge is power. Imagine what a powerful parents you could be with 100% accurate knowledge. Think about how clueless you might be without it!
May 27th, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Great work finding these out. I for one did gain a lot of insight to the dangers that social sites and needless online chatter can possess for my kids.