Best Free Parental Filter OpenDNS is a web-based service that replaces your ISP’s DNS servers. You will usually have no software to install but you will have to register with OpenDNS and change the DNS settings for your router or PC. The online instructions are clear and easy to follow: select the router or PC & operating system, configure the settings, and test the new setup. If you are not confident about this then walk through the instructions without signing up. OpenDNS works very simply. Its main task is to find web pages for you. In order to enable content protection you will need to register for a free account with OpenDNS. OpenDNS Family Shield is the easiest to setup as it is designed to be real simple. There are further benefits from using OpenDNS: – You may notice a speed advantage if your ISP has slower or less reliable DNS servers. OpenDNS is not perfect. At the moment, OpenDNS has no competitors providing free blocking but there is at least one contender lining up.
The Digital Citizenship Survival Kit | Comfortably 2.0 It's a simple little prop I use when teaching Digital Citizenship to our K-8 #aurorahuskies students. I love utilizing props to try to get my point across to students. To me, it helps a student retain the lesson better. Let me introduce you to Mr. Here are the items I have in my "Digital Citizenship Survival Kit" and what each item represents: Padlock The padlock is to remind students to set strong passwords and to set up passcode locks on all of their digital devices. Toothbrush I tell students to think that passwords and toothbrushes are very similar in the fact that you NEVER want to share passwords. Permanent Marker Everything that you put online is permanent....even if you hit the delete button after posting. Toothpaste Imagine the information that you are putting online is like the toothpaste coming out of the tube. The survival kit is very simple. I would love to hear suggestions you might have to make my Digital Citizenship Survival Kit even better.
LEAP Learning Framework – For Personalized Learning 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know We’ve updated this guide with the new privacy settings just launched by Facebook. You can get the new Facebook privacy guide now. Everyday I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a number of other complications related to their privacy on Facebook. Perhaps he was tired of receiving my status updates or perhaps he didn’t want me to view photos from his personal life. 1. I can’t tell you how many people are not aware of their friend lists. There are a few very important things to remember about friend lists: You can add each friend to more than one friend groupFriend groups should be used like “tags” as used elsewhere around the webFriend Lists can have specific privacy policies applied to them I’ll touch on each of the things listed above in more detail later. Using friend lists is also extremely useful for organizing your friends if you have a lot of them. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Nancy Willard: Cyber Savvy: A Web 2.0 Approach to Internet Safety Cyber Savvy: Supporting Safe and Responsible Internet Use Issues related to youth risk online and Internet use management are high on the “radar” in many schools. Following the lead of Virginia, many states also are beginning to require that students be instructed in Internet safety. Student use of Web 2.0 technologies is expanding, along with incredible opportunities for interactive educational activities -- and a host of risk and management concerns. Even the most die-hard techies now recognize that filtering systems are not the solution they were promised to be. In many schools, students regularly bypass the filter -- not to get to porn sites, but to access their favorite social networking sites. We also are seeing signs of an emerging recognition that the Web 1.0 Internet safety approach -- based on simplistic, fear-based rules -- is ineffective. The understanding also is emerging that youth risk online must be viewed from the perspective of adolescent risk.
FOSI GRID Common Sense Media This nonprofit provides rating information for parents and kids on a wide variety of topics including movies, TV shows, book, games, websites and music. The rating system allows parents to make informed choices on the types of media that their children consume. Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee CICAC is a diverse group of public interest, nonprofit and industry groups working to inform policymakers and the public on important Internet-related policy issues and provide a forum for debate on these issues. ConnectSafely This organization, based in California, aims to educate parents and children on how to stay safe online and how to use new technologies in a safe and responsible way. Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) CoSN is a professional association for school district technology leaders. ControlWithCable.org Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC) CTIA Wireless Foundation Cyberbullying Research Center CyberSmart! Darkness to Light Enough is Enough
Agenda 16 September 2009 11-17 rue de l'amiral Hamelin, 75783 Paris Conference Proceedings will be in English only 8.50am Registration & Breakfast See Video 9.25am Welcome - Natasha Jackson, Head of Content Policy, GSMA & Chair, FOSI9.30am Opening Remarks - Marc Fossier, Executive VP & Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, France Telecom9.35am FOSI - An EMEA Perspective - David Miles, European Director, FOSI 9.45am Keynote SpeakerGiuseppe de Martino, SVP, General Counsel & Head of Public Affairs, DailyMotion 10.00am Plenary Panel Discussion - Negotiating a Digital World See Video Moderator – Ambassador David Gross, Partner, WileyReinDorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&TDeborah Taylor Tate, 2009 ITU Laureate for Child Online Protection, Former Federal Communications CommissionerLars Kindervater, Senior Manager of Public Affairs, Deutsche TelekomDr. 11.00am 10-Minute Coffee Break See Video 12.10pm Lunch at the Aeroclub, 6, Rue Galilee, 75116 Paris
Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats (AP) -- Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the developer to gather marketing data from children as young as 7 - and to sell that information. Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send that data back to the company. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids. "This scares me more than anything I have seen using monitoring technology," said Parry Aftab, a child-safety advocate. The software does not record children's names, addresses or other identifiable information, but it knows how old they are because parents customize the programs to be more or less permissive, depending on age. Five other makers of parental-control software contacted by The Associated Press, including McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp., said they do not sell chat data to advertisers.
Coding for Kindergarteners Last year at this time, I was trying not to think about kindergarteners. I was still teaching ninth grade English and had just accepted a job teaching technology to K-5. I was excited about the challenge, and I knew that I'd bitten off more than I could chew. Developing the tech curriculum challenged me to teach programming or at least computational thinking at each elementary grade level. Our school is mid-pivot in technology -- we're in our second year of a middle school 1:2 iPad program, our first year of having a cart of iPads available for elementary, and our last year of two PC labs for the students to use (next year we'll have only one lab). Challenges and Resources I was really excited when I was introduced to the apps Daisy the Dinosaur and Hopscotch. With these apps, I was confident that I had a good entry point for grades 1 and 2. I'm happy to report that, my own surprise, the first challenge has been met. Practical Tips for the Early Grades The Power of Pairs Kodable Pro
Google Buzz poses a major privacy risk for kids, analyst (and pa Should parents worry about Google Buzz? Technology analyst Charlene Li thinks so. She says she has counseled her children on how to stay safe online, including not sharing personal information. But the other day she logged into her Google Buzz account only to discover that her 9-year-old daughter had posted a conversation with friends to Buzz without understanding the post was public. "I saw it because Buzz conveniently made me a follower of hers. The blog post's most frightening line: “Imagine parents (and kids) checking out their Buzz accounts to find that 'iorgyinbathrooms' is following them, which is exactly what happened with my child’s account." Li, founder of Altimeter Group, turned off Google Buzz, alerted the parents of her daughter's friends and went into full analyst mode. “First, I discovered that buried in Google’s terms of service somewhere is that children under the age of 13 are not allowed to have Gmail accounts. “Does your child have a Gmail account? [Updated at 1:50 p.m.
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