Archived and Cached
The Internet Archive and its Way Back Machine give you a historical snapshot of a site within seconds. Google gives you cached pages displaying pages that may have been deleted.
Scroll down to Your Parent Community and you can create a custom parent tip sheet program based on needs and grade level. You can also go to links to online training for their various programs and tutorials.
Digital Tattoo Project
This site has resources to encourage adults and teens to think about their presence online, navigate the issues involved in forming and re-forming their digital identity and learn about their rights and responsibilities as digital citizens.
Discovery: Your Digital Footprint
This scenario shows you how much information from your daily life gets recorded by big business and big brother. Play the scenario and then try to reduce your digital footprint.
Google Alerts
These are updates that can be set up to be sent to your email of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. You can query your name, other names, news topics and so on.
Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online (English and Spanish!)
This FREE guide for parents from the FTC contains advice for parents of kids at different ages (tweens and teens) on social networking, cell phones, sexting, cyberbullying, and file sharing. It's a great resource to hand out on a parent night. Printed booklets can be ordered in bulk for FREE here.
NetFamilyNews
This blog from Anne Collier provides timely articles for parents and educators on the latest in technology. Search for topics of concern. Sign up for her weekly rss feed to your email to keep up with the latest with kids and technology.
QR Code generators
These free sites, like Kaywa, generate a QR code or bar code like image that can point smart phone users to a website, video, text, text message or email. Users must first download a QR code reader app.
Read/Write/Web
Here's an article from Read/Write/Web with 8 Tools to Track your Footprint on the Web.
BrainPop, a provider of animated instructional videos, provides a FREE video lesson on netiquette and online reputation with accompanying activities and resources. It includes a quiz that can be emailed to the teacher. (grades 4-8)
BrainPop, a provider of animated instructional videos, provides a FREE video lesson on online safety and digital identity with accompanying activities and resources. They also have a video on online etiquette. They include quizzes that can be emailed to the teacher. (grades 4-8) For grades 1-3 see this one on online safety.
FREE curriculum that uses case studies to emphasize critical thinking and decision making. Lessons are divided into three major topical strands: 1. Safety and Security, 2. Digital Citizenship and 3. Research and Information Literacy. It's FREE, but you must register as an educator to access the units. The unit, Privacy and Digital Footprints (Grades 4-8), connects to the concept of digital tattoos. See two lessons: Choose a Host (Grades 6-8) Follow the Digital Trail (grades 2-3).
Now part of Common Sense Media's resources, these FREE comprehensive, standards-based lesson plans cover Social Networking and Safety and Security including online identity and personal information. (grades K-12)
Once you register your class for this FREE program, each month students compete in their grade to win the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge and a trophy on a different topic. Students do an online scavenge hunt and complete a quiz. The program starts over with a new topic each month (September-May), so you can join at any time. Topics range from protecting personal Information, to cyberbullying to copyright. (grades 3-8)
Heads Up: Stop. Think. Click.
This FREE guide for kids from the FTC has tips on sharing information with care, interacting with tact, and cyberbullying. It is the companion piece to the parents' guide, Net Cetera (see below). It is a great discussion tool for teachers. Printed booklets can be ordered in bulk for FREE here. (grades 6-12)
Privacy and Reputation Online: A video produced by ikeepsafe.org where two teens relay their experiences with positive and negative consequences of online reputations.
NetSmartz Workshop (English and Spanish!)
This FREE interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is designed to help teach children ages 5-17 to be safer off and online. The site provides an Online Safety Education Kit (grades K-6), video lessons (grades 4-12), and downloadable presentations for parents, tweens, and teens. See the video lessons on Revealing Too Much here. (grades K-12)
NSTeens (English and Spanish!)
NSTeens FREE resources empower tweens (children ages 8 - 12) to make safer online choices through lessons taught in a series of animated videos about the Internet-related adventures of a group of teenagers. Educators may reinforce the videos’ safety lessons through the use of accompanying activity cards. The topic, Revealing Too Much, contains 3 videos and lessons about the consequences of not managing your digital tattoo. (grades 3-7)
The site also houses NetSmartz’s Real-Life Stories videos---a series of narratives from teens about real experiences of online victimization. Each of the videos is accompanied by an activity card to facilitate student discussion and understanding. The video, Tracking Teresa, ties to your digital tattoo. (grades 8-12)
This is a bimonthly e-newsletter offering parents and teachers tools to help kids, ages 9 -14, stay safer online. Primary focal areas include: social networking, wireless devices, gaming, cyberbullying and privacy. The site is also translated into Spanish.
Provides reviews and ratings on movies, games, apps and books to help parents and educators make sense of the media. In addition, your site can register to use their FREE Parent Media Education Program. Topics covered include cyberbullying, social networking, sexting, video games, and more.
Family Media Agreements
Use these Internet Safety Pledges from Netsmartz and Common Sense Media to promote safety discussions and create safer boundaries for computer use at home.
This site is a public service from Internet corporations and contains a repository of instructional how-to video tutorials for parents. Videos range from setting your myspace or facebook profile to private, to teaching your kids to be privacy-wise, to activating your computer's security settings.
Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online (English and Spanish!)
This FREE guide for parents from the FTC contains advice for parents of kids at different ages (tweens and teens) on social networking, cell phones, sexting, cyberbullying, and file sharing. Printed booklets can be ordered in bulk for FREE here. Also see Heads Up: Stop. Think. Click. above.
This blog from Anne Collier provides timely articles for parents and educators on the latest in technology. Search for topics of concern.
This FREE interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is designed to help teach children ages 5-17 to be safer off and online. The site provides tips and discussion starters for parents on social networking and revealing too much as well as videos about talking to your children about protecting personal information. Their Tip Sheets can also be a big help for parents.
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