Online Safety of Self, Identity, Finances
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– General Information –
Description: Information article on Cyberbullying from Scholastic.com
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
Author: Willard, Nancy
Description: Web site with information on effective strategies to assist young people in acquiring knowledge, decision-making skills, motivation, and self-control to behave in a safe, responsible and legal manner when using the Internet and other information technologies.
Child Safety on the Information Highway
Description: This Web site provides information to families about using the Internet safely. It offers guidelines for parents, safety rules for kids, a family contract for online safety, and an e-mail newsletter. Test your online safety knowledge with their interactive quiz.
Author: Nordby, Ann (24 more by this author)
Description: This technology trend focuses on services such as Google Apps and Microsoft Office Live that provide online software and storage for users. What is important is that no matter where you are, you can access your documents because they aren't located on that laptop at home or office, but 'in the clouds'. They facilitate collaboration and save money, but users should consider a few caveats before availing of them.
Description: Web site from Canada with information on Cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying - Mobilizing educators, parents, students, and others
Description: Embrace Civility in the Digital Age (a program of Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use) promotes approaches that will best ensure all young people become “Cyber Savvy” and address youth risk in a positive and restorative manner, including issues of Cyberbullying. Provides information for educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social cruelty.
Cyberbullying: What Parents and Educators Can Do 
Description: Both parents and educators who work with young people are concerned about the dangers of cyberbullying. In response to the national focus on these issues, CYFERnet continues to focus on cyberbullying and sexting—what parents and educators need to know and what they can do to help young people in their families, schools and communities.
GetNetWise:Online Safety Guide
Description: Includes:
Online Safety Tips for Parents
Safety Tips for Kids
Internet basics
Tools that promote safe, rewarding online experiences
Information to help you find good quality web sites for your kids
Navigating in Their Space: Get Connected and Improve Your Effectiveness with Teens
Author: Light, Mark ; Brian Raison, Nadine Fogt and Annie Davis
Description: This lab will help youth workers gain a deeper understanding of how teens approach the internet, post profiles and information, and respond to potential criticism and/or "outside" involvement in "their" space. Participants will learn basic steps necessary to tune in, log on, and understand what they can and cannot control. We will also show you how to build a social networking site for your organization and profile that will help with your cyber-space debut.
Responsible Social Networking for Teens
Description: Social networking websites allow teens to express themselves freely on a global medium. Along with the opportunities for learning that social networking brings, youth and their parents should learn the "rules of the road" for responsible behavior online.
Restoring Privacy, Cleaning Your Computer's Cookies and Beacons
Author: Kimsey, Ray
Description: This computer lab will introduce attendees to the ways they are tracked on the Internet by marketing companies. Recent studies by the Wall Street Journal indicate the nation's 50 most visited websites installed, on average, 64 pieces of tracking technology onto visitors' computers without their knowledge. The computer lab will include methods to remove the cookies, beacons, and block some advertising.
Description: Information on online safety for teens; safe surfing, cyberbullying, privacy protection
Description: works to ensure that all children -- especially those at risk of being left behind -- have the resources and the opportunities they need to grow up healthy and lead productive lives. Addresses issues of youth technology access and use.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Description: These guidelines (or drafts) explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and for developers of authoring tools. The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility. However, following them will also make Web content more available to all users, whatever user agent they are using (e.g., desktop browser, voice browser, mobile phone, automobile-based personal computer, etc.) or constraints they may be operating under (e.g., noisy surroundings, under- or over-illuminated rooms, in a hands-free environment, etc.). Following these guidelines will also help people find information on the Web more quickly. These guidelines do not discourage content developers from using images, video, etc., but rather explain how to make multimedia content more accessible to a wide audience.
Description: The increase in youth technology use in recent years can be viewed both positively and negatively. Youth can put themselves at risk using the internet and cell phones. However, these technologies also provide unique and effective ways for programs to reach youth. The following CYFERnet resources provide a variety of information and resources about youth and technology.
– Professional Development –
Author: Daniels, Eve (1 more by this author)
Description: This technology trend takes advantage of October as Cyber Security Awareness month. Use this to promote for yourself and others getting familiar with online safety and security procedures..
– Programming Resource –
Cyberbullying - Mobilizing educators, parents, students, and others
Description: Embrace Civility in the Digital Age (a program of Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use) promotes approaches that will best ensure all young people become “Cyber Savvy” and address youth risk in a positive and restorative manner, including issues of Cyberbullying. Provides information for educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social cruelty.
GetNetWise:Online Safety Guide
Description: Includes:
Online Safety Tips for Parents
Safety Tips for Kids
Internet basics
Tools that promote safe, rewarding online experiences
Information to help you find good quality web sites for your kids
Teen Talk: A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers
Author: Gengler, Colleen (7 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet for parents about teens and internet use.
Description: works to ensure that all children -- especially those at risk of being left behind -- have the resources and the opportunities they need to grow up healthy and lead productive lives. Addresses issues of youth technology access and use.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Description: These guidelines (or drafts) explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and for developers of authoring tools. The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility. However, following them will also make Web content more available to all users, whatever user agent they are using (e.g., desktop browser, voice browser, mobile phone, automobile-based personal computer, etc.) or constraints they may be operating under (e.g., noisy surroundings, under- or over-illuminated rooms, in a hands-free environment, etc.). Following these guidelines will also help people find information on the Web more quickly. These guidelines do not discourage content developers from using images, video, etc., but rather explain how to make multimedia content more accessible to a wide audience.
– Research –
Afterschool: A Strategy for Addressing and Preventing Middle School Bullying (2011)
Description: This brief from MetLife Foundation Afterschool Alliance exames critical issues facing middle school youth and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues. The brief concludes that afterschool programs can provide a link to community partners who bring new voices to help children to stand up to those who bully.
Author: Dunham, Trudy (31 more by this author)
Description: We worry about sexting by minors. What it says about their sexual and relationship health. The short and long term effects sexually explicit photographs distributed by cell phone or posted online can have on their lives. While we should continue to worry and do what we can to prevent such behavior, a new national study suggests that the behavior is significantly less prevalent than was previously estimated. This brief reviews the new research findings and recommends actions by parents and youth workers to further prevent this behavior.