1. Privacy and Safety
What is it and why is it important
for internet usage?

2. Privacy
• The state or condition
of being free from
being observed or
disturbed by others.

3. Safety
• Freedom from injury,
danger, or loss.

4. Traffic Light
• Green: Safe Sites
- chat rooms
- kidscom
- search engines
- yahooligans
- ask jeeves for kids
- kids click
- DIG

5. Traffic Light cont.
• Yellow: Proceed with caution
- “wear you cyber thinking cap”
- netiquette
• Red: Avoid
- child pornography, child
molesters, cyber stalking, harassers
- topics on family to family basis
(hate, violence, drugs, guns, alcohol,
tobacco gambling, bomb
building, cults, satanic materials)

6. Educational Ramifications/Tips /Ways to Protect
• Best protection is to avoid which is unrealistic.
• Set up rules for students to follow (Acceptable Use Policy)
• Never give out personal info or send pics.
• Encourage a student to tell a parent, teacher, or another adult if you feel
uncomfortable.
• Never plan to meet someone you don’t know that you met online.
• Filter sites and use filtering software: Software to Monitor (CyberSmart, Cyber Patrol,
Surf Watch, and Creepsquash)
• Have an Acceptable Use Policy set up
Online Safety Quiz

7. Educational Ramifications/Tips/Ways to
Protect
• Teach responsibility and how to search
safely (key words)
• Book marking sites for students will
allow them access to correct sites.
• Students also need to be taught not all
information is accurate.

8. Warning Signs
• Find porn/ inappropriate materials
on a computer.
• Receive private calls, packages,
letters, messages.
• Switches the monitor when you
enter or get near the computer
• Becomes withdrawn.
• Uses online account of another

9. How can parents help?
• Educators and parents need to help
educate students about proper online
etiquette.
• Parents and teachers should work together
to help the students.
• Look for warning signs or changes in
behavior.
• Keep an eye on what each student/child is
doing online.
• Look at search history/install tracking
software.
• Constant remind students of rules 7 traffic
light rules (netiquette).

10. How will it develop in
the future?

11. Helpful Websites and Resources
• http://www.safekids.com
• http://
www.netsmartz.org/RevealingTooMuch
• http://www.familyguidebook.com/
• http://www.fbi.gov/fun-games/kids/kids-safety
• http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/privacy/kidprivacy.html
• http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293245-1