Top 7 Websites to Teach Kids About Internet Safety The ease with which anyone can use the Internet and can do so in such an anonymous way creates an environment that's especially dangerous for young and naive kids. While the Internet offers children with a wonderful opportunities to play educational online games or connect with pen pals from across the world, it also presents an open doorway into your home where numerous dangers can find a way to a child. The following websites are some of the best resources that parents and teachers can use to introduce kids to some of the things they need to be careful about when they're spending time on the Internet. NetSmartzKids The National Center for Missing and Exploited children volunteered an entire free website for children to learn all about safely using the Internet. Playing Online Games that Teach Safety Woogi World Complete 4 Missions to Enable Features Completely Missions to Unlock Features Webonauts Making the Right Choice Cyber Cafe Safe Email Use Wired Kids Schools or Parents Can Sign Up
Webonauts Internet Academy Come play again later! Come play again tomorrow! Texas Attorney General The proliferation of child predators using the Internet to target young victims has become a national crisis. A study shows one in seven children will be solicited for sex online in the next year. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is urging all parents and teachers to realize the risks our children face online, and take steps to help ensure their children’s safety. iKeepSafe Internet Safety Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today joined with the Texas Cable Association and the Internet Keep Safe Coalition to launch a new video that teaches children and parents about online safety. The video runs 16 minutes. Watch a Cyber Safety Town Hall Meeting Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and top investigators from his Cyber Crimes Unit are spreading the message of online safety to children and parents through a series of Cyber Safety Town Hall meetings. The video runs 1 hour and 23 minutes. View video as Windows Media (right-click to download). Internet Safety Video for Parents (Approx. 16 minutes)
Internet Safety As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation
Gameroom The Gameroom is your gateway to games and fun stuff related to computer and Internet safety. Carnegie Cyber Academy The Carnegie Cyber Academy is the Internet home of the Carnegie Cadets. On this very special site, children and teens can play some excellent mini games, read stories and visit the blogs of members of the Carnegie Cadets and cadets-in-training. As they get all the nail-biting, breathtaking details about the heroes and villains of cyberspace, they'll look forward to meeting up with the characters of the game, which is available as a free download from the site. You and your kids are invited to join the cadets at the Carnegie Cyber Academy . Carnegie Cadets: The MySecureCyberspace® Game Do your children know how to spot spam? BeSeen: A Free Mobile App This online safety mobile application is a single-player game that simulates a social networking website. In BeSeen , the ultimate quest is to make friends. Download now from the App Store (Coming in December 2011 for Android) Alice
About the MySecureCyberspace Game - The Carnegie Cyber Academy - An Online Safety site and Games for Kids Carnegie Cadets: The MySecureCyberspace Game is an interactive game designed for fourth and fifth graders that teaches Internet safety and computer security in a safe, fun setting. It is a Flash-based game compatible with Windows 2000/XP and Mac OSX (10.5). Created by Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute and Carnegie Mellon CyLab in 2007, the game is provided as a free download from this website. Carnegie Mellon created the MySecureCyberspace initiative as a response to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which calls for every American to help create a safe Internet by securing his or her own corner of cyberspace. The MySecureCyberspace website and game give everyday citizens the tools and knowledge they need to do this. Players join the Cyber Defense training program at the Carnegie Cyber Academy, where training missions teach different Internet topics. Click the Play button to watch the 30-second video. Download the Media Kit. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
A Cybercop's guide to Internet Child Safety 5 Ways to Keep Your Information Secure in the Cloud" Passwords are designed to keep our information safe from prying eyes. They're like locks. A hacker may force the door and break your lock, but most of the time a strong lock keeps people out. But let's be honest: Passwords are annoying. Remembering them is a pain, so we often take the easy way out and use simple passwords that we won't forget. But if they're easy to remember, they're also easy to guess. When the site RockYou.com was hacked in 2009, a security firm examined the 32 million compromised passwords and found that thousands upon thousands of users relied on the same basic phrases. The best passwords combine letters, numbers and symbols into an unusual configuration.