1. Internet Safety Stay Safe While You Surf Shari Galgano Technology Resource Teacher Caesar Rodney School District

2. How Many of You use the Internet?

3. Internet Use • Kids use computers at higher rates than adults. • About 90 percent of kids ages 5 to 17 use computers, and 59 percent of them use the Internet. • One out of every four 5-year olds use the Internet . • 3 in 4 students use the Internet for help with homework. • More than half of students use the Internet for writing e-mail, sending instant messages, and playing games. 10News.com October 29, 2003

4. The Internet is a Fantastic Place • Immediate information about just about everything. • Ability to communicate with people from around the world . • Education • Entertainment. • Music • Games

5. Why Safety Must be a Concern • 1 in 5 children under 17 yrs has received unwanted sexual solicitation. - National Center for Missing and Exploited Children • 1 in 33 kids has received an aggressive solicitation to meet somewhere. - National Center for Missing and Exploited Children • 1 in 4 children ages 10 - 17 has been exposed to unwanted sexual material online. - National Center for Missing and Exploited Children • U.S. Customs estimates more than 100,000 web sites are involved in child pornography. - Protectkids.com www.isafe.org

6. Stay Safe Online

7. Never give out personal information when you are online including: Name Address Telephone Number School Name Name of your sports’ teams, local parks, malls, etc. Where your parents work Friends’ names Pictures Summary

8. Summary • Never agree to meet anyone in person that you meet online. • Tell an adult if anything happens online that makes you feel uncomfortable or frightened.

9. Strategies to Keep Kids Safe • Become familiar with the Internet. • Review Safety Rules with your children. • Know when your kids are online. • Know where your kids go when they are online. • Preview Web sites with your children. • Get to know your child’s online friends as you would get to know their actual friends. • Create and print family Internet rules.

10. Additional Internet Safety Resources • Disney’s Surf Swell Island http://disney.go.com/surfswell/index2.html • Disney’s CyberNetiquette Comix http://disney.go.com/cybersafety/ • CyberSmart http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/home/

11. Additional Internet Safety Resources • Stay Safe Online http://www.msn.staysafeonline.com/default2.htm • I-Safe America http://www.isafe.org/ • NetSmartz http://www.netsmartz.org/

12. Safe Sites for Kids • Caesar Rodney’s Elementary Kids’ Site http://www.k12.de.us/teacher/galgano/elemkids.htm • Search Engines for Kids • Yahooligans: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ • Ask Jeeves for Kids: http://www.ajkids.com/ • Kids’ Click: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

13. Thank YouandSafe Surfing!