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Nov. 15, 2000
Helpful Tools and Resources for Web Safety
SAFETY RESOURCES
America Links Up
This is a public awareness and education campaign sponsored by a broad-based coalition of non-profits, education groups, and corporations concerned with providing children with a safe and rewarding experience online.
American Library Association
Check out their links for teens and for parents.
The Children's Partnership
This non-profit association, which focuses on such issues as the digital divide and the best uses of the Internet by young people, includes at its Web site an online "Parents' Guide to the Information Superhighway" with a fairly extensive section on Internet safety.
CyberAngels
An advocacy group that finds and reports illegal material online, CyberAngels offers a variety of safety and appropriate use tips for students and parents, including a sample Family Internet Agreement.
The Department of Education's Internet Safety Page
This site describes and provides links to a variety of government reports and non-profit initiatives related to Internet safety.
Disney Online Internet Safety Information
Disney provides a variety of safety tips and links for parents, as well as cyber-comics and other entertaining safety-related presentations for kids.
Geocities
Information on using "safe sites" developed by schools, colleges, universities, and other educational entities.
GetNetWise
A coalition of industry leaders developed this online resource for families to help children have safe, educational and entertaining online experiences.
Internet 101
This site, created by an individual in Minnesota, offers basic information about the Net including virus protection and links to safe sites and other safety resources.
Missing Kids
A wealth of resources and safety guidelines for children and parents. Educators and family members are encouraged to report any incidences of child pornography or online stalking to The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's "CyberTipline" through this Web site or by calling 800/843-5678/ The CyberTipline forwards all reports to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Online Privacy
A collaboration between TRUSTe, an organization that offers a "seal of approval" to sites that honor visitors' privacy, and Classroom Connect, this publication-with ideas and information on a variety of resources-can be downloaded for free from the TRUSTe site.
Parent's Guide to the Internet
The Guide suggests how parents can help their children to tap into the wonders of the Internet while safeguarding them from its potential hazards. The Spanish version of this publication, La Guża del Internet para Padres de Familia, is also available.
ParenTech
A unique technology education partnership between the U.S. Department of Education's North Central Regional Education Lab and Ameritech that provides families and educators of middle school kids with free resources including a Technology and Society Parent Guide with safety info.
The PEP site
Created by Anne Bubnick as a resource for parents, educators and publishers, this site offers an extensive list of software products that block, filter or monitor internet use.
Project OPEN
Responsible Netizen
Safe And Smart: Research and Guidelines for Children's Use of the Internet
To help parents and school leaders make better decisions, the National School Boards Foundation carried out an unprecedented national survey of parents, children and the state of Internet regulation today. Highly readable, timely, and a must for anyone concerned about these important issues.
Safe Surfing With Students: A Teachers Handbook
Created by educators in the Urbana School District in Illinois, this guide covers netiquette, guidelines for safe e-mailing, recommendations on what to teach about safety at four different age levels, and more.
SafeKids
Features many relevant articles about Web safety, with lots of articles by Larry Magid, a reporter and child safety advocate. A well designed site with good information and links to other quality sites.
SafetyEd International
An extensive collection of safety-related online classes and advice for parents and older students about everything from avoiding date rape to how to report such problems as online harassment and violation of child privacy.
Surf Safety
Offers a filtered search engine and promotes an Internet safety book, Child Safety-Net, with sample chapters available online.
Wired Kids
TEACHING CYBERETHICS
The Center for Academic Integrity
The Center for Academic Integrity provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students. They list a variety of resources and links.
Center for Applied Ethics
An alphabetical list of links to relevant sites
The Character Education Partnership
CEP is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation's youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society.
The Computer Ethics Institute
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CyberCitizenship
This brand new Web site, created by the Cybercitizen Partnership of the ITAA Association and the Department of Justice, offers resources to educate children and young adults on the dangers and consequences of cyber crime.
Cyber Behavior Research Center
Offers a list of articles, resources and white papers on privacy issues and cyber behavior.
CyberSmart
CyberSmart provides five learning modules for schools to introduce elementary and middle school students and their families to the issues of online safety, cyber-ethics, online advertising and privacy, research skills and the basics of Internet technology.
Ethics in an Electronic World
The Philadelphia Public Schools offer this set of links to ethics-related sites
Internet Do's and Don'ts
Check out this children's game, which focuses on good "Netizenship," the Rules of the Road, and the implications of hacking.
Legal & Moral Issues on the Web
A resource list compiled by Elizabeth Brunner of Cal Poly.
National Conference on Cyberethics
Learn more about the National Conference on Cyberethics hosted in the fall of 2000 by Marymount University in cooperation with the Cybercitizen Partnership, a joint venture of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the United States Department of Justice.
Plagiarism.com
Now it is possible to prevent plagiarism by determining if a term paper has been copied from the Internet or from another class. Log into this site to check a student's work.
AUP RESOURCES
Acceptable Use Policies: A Handbook
This online handbook, from the Virginia Department of Education, Division of Technology, has dozens of examples, templates, FAQs, etc.
The American Library Associations Acceptable Use Policy Links Page
The ALA has gathered together a few essential links to get you on the right track with your understanding of the issues surrounding AUPs.
K-12 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES an Analysis by Nancy Willard
A good site for AUP development, it has ideas and templates to help schools see what other districts are doing and good information about constitutional considerations.
Los Angeles Unified School District Acceptable Use Policy
Here is a preeminent example of an AUP that covers all the bases, both legal and technical.
Southern Regional Education Board
AUP info from the Southern Regional Education Board.
Tenet
The Texas Education Network has a great supply of AUP's.
COPYRIGHT AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES
The Copyright Web Site, Benedict O'Mahoney
Cyber Space Law Center: Intellectual Property: Copyright
Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers
United States Copyright Office
RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING COPPA
The Center for Democracy and Technology
Here you can read the text of the Childrens' Online Privacy and Protection Act.
KidzPrivacy
The Federal Trade Commission Web site that directly deals with the privacy of kids information on the Internet. Many ideas for parents as well as links to resources.
A Parent's Guide to Online Privacy
This guide, by the Center for Media Education which helped advocate for the COPPA legislation, explains COPPA.
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