Irving Middle School


Internet Safety Tips for Parents and Students


General Information
BlogSafety.com
Welcome to BlogSafety.com , where teens, parents, teachers and adult bloggers can learn about blogging & social networking.  
www.safekids.com
Welcome to SafeKids.com.
Your family's guide to making the Internet and Technology
fun, safe and productive.

www.wiredsafety.org
WiredSafety provides help, information and education to Internet and mobile device users of all ages. We handle cases of cyberabuse ranging from identity and credential theft, online fraud and cyberstalking, to hacking and malicious code attacks.
www.cybertipline.com
Cybertipline handles leads from individuals reporting the sexual exploitation of children as well as provides many resoursces for parents and teens.
Blogging

What Parents Need to Know About Blogging
by Anne Collier

Editor, NetFamilyNews.org

Blogs are new to a lot of parents, but they're nothing new to kids. Fifty-two percent of all blogs belong to 13-to-19-year-olds, according to a recent study at Georgetown University, the number of blogs has been put at anywhere between 10 million and 32 million, and a new blog is created about every 5.8 seconds. That's why we'll keep coming back to this moving target of a subject, and we recommend that you check the News often, because we report on teen blogs a lot. But here are some basics for parents . . .
Safe Blogging Tips for Teens

Simple guidelines for teens to follow when online.

Teens on the Menu: MySpace makes life too easy for predators

by Larry Magid
January 24, 2006

Predators looking for teenage girls or boys have a tool that makes it very easy for them to find and groom their victims and millions of teens are playing right into their hands. . .