Top Educational Websites For Children That Are Fun There’s something about the phrase “top educational websites for children” that makes my stomach feel ill. It may be because I imagine parents plopping their children in front of a PC and only allowing them to play games that involve solving math problems or answering science questions. The torture! However, I was from a generation where even though I was an “A” student, when I returned home I’d immediately race to the computer and fire up the game Ultima for an evening of medieval adventure. With that said, I do feel that today parents have a far greater selection of fun games or sites that are also educational and won’t bore your poor kid to death. A Brief List of The Top Educational Websites For Children In order to produce a quality list, I started at KidSites, which is sort of the “Google” of children’s websites. #1: The Best Kids Art Website – Metro Museum of Art #2: Top Science Website – NASA #3: Top Website About Nature and Animals #4: Top Website for Early Childhood Development
Best Educational Sites How to Set Up Safety Mode on YouTube | Yoursphere for Parents Like Google SafeSearch, which you can learn to enable here, YouTube’s Safety Mode does a great job of filtering out videos that some parents may consider inappropriate for their children. Thankfully, YouTube already does a fairly good job of removing any inappropriate content on the site. But with the millions of videos being uploaded and viewed every day, it can be difficult to cover all their grounds when it comes to safety. Below is a video guide that you can follow to set it up. 1. 2. Please note: This should be YOUR Gmail account, not one that you share with your child. Also, if your username and password automatically fill into the username and password fields (autofill), you’ll want to disable that by following this quick and easy guide. 3. 4. Another thing to keep in mind: Safety Mode only stays locked on one web browser on that particular computer user account. Setting up YouTube Safety Mode on Your Child’s Smartphone -
Mobicip.com - Online Safety 2.0 Moms Material Home NetFamilyNews Tips for Online Safety Set a filter to keep inappropriate content out If you’d prefer not to see mature or age-restricted content as you browse YouTube, scroll to the bottom of any YouTube page and enable Safety Mode. Safety Mode helps filter out potentially objectionable content from search, related videos, playlists, shows and films. Learn more Scroll to the bottom of any YouTube page and click the drop-down menu in the “Safety” section. Select the On or Off option to enable or disable Safety Mode. To lock this setting, sign in to your Google Account. Once you've signed in, you will have the option to lock this setting.
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.
Veritate et Virtute: Online Safety: Let us be safe, at home, onl This is a continuation of the expansion on the daily tweets I shared via my Twitter account, @BurgessCT, during National CyberSecurity Awareness Month (#NCSAM - October 2009). If you’re reading this blog, you and your family are connected to the internet; your entrée to the internet is via a laptop, desktop PC, smart-phone, or other such devices and you have one, two maybe three separate service providers. Your connected devices allow you and your family the opportunity to literally bring the world to your doorstep. Fortunately, if your online experiences are like mine, the people and services you encounter are with great folks and honest companies or as I like to say, “They are Ivory Snow 99 44/100th percent pure of heart; honest and without hidden agendas.” So let’s begin to close those virtual doors and keep out the uninvited. Computer Security: Anti-virus and anti-spyware software – enable automatic updates and scan, every day for viruses, malware, crimeware and spyware.
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
Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy | Electronic Frontier Fo By Peter Eckersley, Seth Schoen, Kevin Bankston, and Derek Slater. Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm. Would you want strangers to see searches that reference your online reading habits, medical history, finances, sexual orientation, or political affiliation? Recent events highlight the danger that search logs pose. Disclosures like AOL's are not the only threats to your privacy. Search companies should limit data retention and make their logging practices more transparent to the public,4 while Congress ought to clarify and strengthen privacy protections for search data. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed the following search privacy tips. 1. Don't search for your name, address, credit card number, social security number, or other personal information. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Conclusion September 2006
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.
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.