Safe Surfing Products for Parents

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IMD Connection: To help parents find an effective solution, GCPS prepared a resource guide that includes some industry recommended software, websites with more detailed protection information, and links to reports summarizing various content tailoring solutions. The guide is available in the Technology Tips tab.

Regardless of which approach to content management that parents prefer, parents may also want to make use of a "media guidelines"contract. To better formalize such guidelines in the home, parents might want to ask their children to sign the "Family Netiquette Plan" and the "Internet Respect Plan," documents that the National Institute on Media and the Family (http:www.mediafamily.org/network_guides_1.shtml) produces. These one-page "contracts" contain listed guidelines and require both parents and children to sign a formal household agreement pledging to abide by those rules.

Products you can purchase:
Cyber Sitter 
 Cyber Patrol
 Net Nanny
 Surf Watch

Center for online child safety.  Get Net Wise offers tips for parents and educators, reviews of filtering software, and many other online child safety resources.

CHILD SAFETY
Whether your kids go online to browse, research school projects, play games, or chat with friends, you can help to keep them safer while they explore online with the following articles and tips.
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/online/chatsafety.mspx

Other Sites to Explore:
Cyberangels
http://www.cyberangels.org
Cyberangels.org is an Internet safety organization that seeks to address the concerns of parents, the needs of children, on-line abuse and cyber crime.

The NetSmartz Workshop - teaching children what to watch out for ...
... Online resource with interactive
activities and games teaching children, teens,
parents & educators safety on the Internet. Fun safe Internet links for ...
www.netsmartz.org

i - SAFE America
http://www.isafe.org
i - SAFE teacher kids and teens how to be safe on the Internet.

 Cybersmart Kids
Designed to help children and whole families find out how to be cybersmart and use the Internet safely.
http://www.cybersmartkids.com.au

KidsCom Jr.
Games and tips for Internet safety and good manners.
http://www.kidscomjr.com/games/safety/safety.html

Disney's Surf Swell Island
Help Mickey and the gang with their adventures in Internet safety.
http://disney.go.com/surfswell/index.html
 
 


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