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Online Safety
- Raising Your Digital Natives Responsibly
- View this Youtube video exploring internet safety.
- Author Rosalind Wiseman discusses common challenges parents face when raising children in the Internet age.
- Recorded June 18, 2013 as a Verizon Internet Safety Month webinar.
- A Platform for Good
- Excellent website that helps families with online safety tips and issues.
- Netsmartz.org
- NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline.
- The program is designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement.
- With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations, NetSmartz entertains while it educates.
- Warning on taking pictures from your cell phone and posting them!
- Report by Kansas City station KSHB-TV on Nov 9, 2010
- Learn how photos can be traced back to the sender’s location.
- Please watch this video and take the recommended precautions.
- Learn how to change the settings on your phone as well as your children’s in order to ensure your family’s safety and privacy.
- Visit Google’s Safety Center to learn what you can do to protect yourself and your family online.
- Visit YouTube’s Policies, safety, and reporting page
