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An Internet Safety Resource Guide

21 of the Best Places to Keep You Informed

Published: February, 2006

The information on available on keeping safe on the Internet varies in terms of how often it’s updated and also varies because of the creator’s orientation but these sites all arm you with plenty of information.

Best Up-to-Date Sites To Keep Kids Safe Online

http://wiredkids.org/
One of the most comprehensive sites Internet Safety for parents, kids and educators. Parry Aftab, a cyber lawyer who runs this site has created an organization called TeenAngels. She trains teens to train other teens about how to avoid trouble on the Net. In addition to wirekids she maintains these other sites:

http://www.safekids.com
Written by Larry Magid, a syndicated columnist, from this site you’ll also find teen specific advice at a site called http://www.safeteens.org
and a new site called http://www.blogsafety.com that deals with social networking. There’s a good podcast FamilyTechTalk.com, which delivers a series of programs covering family technology as well.

www.isafe.org
Funded by the Department of Justice, I-Safe America creates classroom curriculum and community outreach programs and programs for schools, parents and kids. c Great monthly newsletter and lots of video available from the website.

Kids Safety and Education

www.netsmartz.org
NetSmartz was created by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and has partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA). It is one of the oldest and most comprehensive guides to Internet Safety. The site has a huge library of articles about different facets of the safety question.

http://www.Getnetwise.org
A look at the various technology tools to help protect families. Getnetwise represents the collective work of a number of government and private groups working to protect kids.

http://www.netsafe.theoutfitgroup.co.nz/offenders/what_is_grooming.aspx
A good discussion on grooming and how adults prey on youth on the Internet.

http://internetsuperheroes.org/
Internet Super Heroes teaches kids how to behave in cyberspace including how to deal with cyberbullying through Spiderman and friends. This program can be brought into schools and communities.

Understanding Piracy

http://staysafeonline.info/
Stay Safe Online. National Cyber Security Alliance works to help protect personal and private information and has sections of parents and kids

http://www.bsa.org/usa/events/test-your-software-piracy-iq-quiz.cfm
Created by the Business Software Alliance with lots of information on fighting piracy including a Test Your Software Piracy IQ Quiz.

http://www.respectcopyright.org
A site created by the Motion Picture Association of America which has tool parents can use to scan their children’s’ disks for multimedia files.

For School Curriculum

http://www.CyberSmart.org
An in-school curriculum created for students grades K-12 dealing with all aspects of responsible internet use. Chapters are available as .PDF files.

To Be a More Informed Consumer

http://www.edtechoutreach.umd.edu/cyberawareness.html
Educational Technology Outreach - College of Education - University of Maryland, College Park. Helps take research being done at the universities and publicize it.

http://www.consumerwebwatch.org
Consumer Reports’ foundation that explores and reports on current internet attitudes and problems.

http://responsiblenetizen.org/onlinedocs/index.html
CSRIU Online Documents to inform you of dangers and responsibilities

http://www.eff.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation covers issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation and consumer righs in a digital world.

To Keep Up to Date on Virus and Securtiy Issues

http://www.sans.org/newsletters/
SANS Institute - Computer Security issues reviewed.

To Prevent Computer Crimes

www.cybertipline.com
 A site run by the National Association for Missing and Exploiting Children offering basic information at its sister site, Netsmartz.org but also offering a place to report serious acts involving missing children and predatory acts.

http://www.cybercrime.gov/
Information about computer crimes and how to avoid them.

The Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission offers a place to learn about computer fraud, identity theft, privacy and also to report instances and problems.

Family Friendly Websites

http://www.Family-source.com
2.3 million family safe sites

http://www.kaboose.com
a Canadian clearinghouse of safesites

http://www.yahooligans.com
Yahoo’s kid’s site directory

http://www.ajkids.com
Ask Jeeve’s kid friendly search

For General Parenting Advice

www.Talkwithkids.org
Some encouraging words about how to talk to kids about a variety of difficult subjects.