Be Web Smart! Web Smart Workshop, Sanborn PTO February 13, 2013 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Be Web Smart!

Web Smart Workshop, Sanborn PTO February 13, 2013 Jean Dumais www.bewebsmart.com www.facebook.com/bewebsmart

Topics

• Intro
• Parental Controls at home
• Parental Controls on mobile: iPods, iPads, etc.
• Safe Searching on web and mobile with Google,

Yahoo and Bing

• Facebook
• Social Media
• General Tips

Why is this important?

Today’s devices are connected to the Internet 24/7. Children have access to the world right in their pockets.

• 62% of children worldwide have had a negative online

experience.

• Of the top 100 kid’s search terms in 2009, “sex” and

“porn” were in the top 5 (along with Google, YouTube and Facebook).

• Half of all 2-4 year olds have used a computer along

with 90% of 5-8 year olds.

• 23% of teenagers report they have a smartphone

(March 2012)

• As parents, most of these statistics are probably not

surprising

How Be Web Smart started

• Daughter’s curiosity resulted in her viewing some

images online I would have preferred her not to see without my knowledge!

• After that added parental controls to my laptop.
• Once she got an iPod, realized that restrictions had

to be added there also.

• I wanted to share my many hours of research on this

topic with those who don’t have the time to do it!

• Not all parents are in front of a computer 24/7.

Those of us “of a certain age” are not digital natives

Parental Controls: Router

• Parental Controls directly on your wireless router.
• Most wireless routers have parental control options,

from filtering content categories to time limits

• OpenDNS - settings take effect across everything
• n your home network. In addition to computers,

this includes your kids' Xbox, Playstation, Wii, DS, iPad, and even their iPhone. Free and paid options.

Parental Controls: Computer

• Windows 7 – basic, and advanced with Windows

Live Safety. Easy to set up from Control Panel.

• Windows 8 – adds daily time limits.
• Vista - basic, plus Web filtering
• XP – a bit more limited (time for an upgrade!)
• Mac – great features, built-in, including time limits,

web content

• Purchased products – many to choose from (such

as NetNanny, AVG Family, McGruff Safeguard, Norton Family)

Windows Live Safety

Windows Live Safety

Windows Live Safety

Windows Live Safety

Parental Controls: iPod, other Apple gadgets

• Can Restrict applications like YouTube, Safari,

FaceTime, iTunes. Restrict installing or deleting apps.

• Choose restriction code you will remember

___ ___ ___ ___

• Allowed ratings for music, movies, apps (*not

necessarily content they find in the Safari browser!)

• Restrict In-App purchases
• Prevent them from adding an e-mail account or

making changes to location settings (who really needs to know where they are other than YOU?)

iPod settings

Safe Searching on web

• Google, Yahoo and Bing each offer safe search.

Default is moderate.

• You will want to change that to Strict in all web

browsers you use.

• Bing – good at blocking but you cannot LOCK the

setting, meaning kids could figure out how to change it.

• Using Live Safety or other parental control software?

Then you don’t have to worry about this.

Safe Searching on mobile

• Yahoo just has OFF or ON. Bing and Google offer

OFF, MODERATE or STRICT.

• Default is moderate so change to STRICT.
• Can decide which to use as the default search

engine, General Settings for Safari.

• None of these can be locked.
• You can view the browser history to see what’s

been seen by the kiddos!

• Best bet is a kid-safe mobile web browser. AVG, K9,

McGruff, Mobicip, MobSafety for iDevices

• Maxthon, Mobicip for Android; Kids Place, Kid

Mode, and Cloudacl WebFilter for Kindle Fire

Before and After

Facebook

• Can’t join until 13. (Reports that 38% of kids online

are younger)

• Even if you’re not on FB now, your kids will likely be

in the future so helpful to have some understanding

• Settings differ for teens, they cannot share with
• Public. They can share with “Friends of friends” but

should change that to FRIENDS only.

• Default sharing (friends only) and then can target

each thing you share

• FB is constantly changing. Review your privacy

settings often!

Internet Trolls

• “…someone who posts controversial, inflammatory,

irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking

• ther users into an emotional response or to

generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.”

* Source= Urban Dictionary

Handling FB trolls and bullies

• Block – will unfriend and

prevent them from starting conversations with you or seeing what you post.

• People will not be notified

when you block them.

• People you block can still see

and comment on stuff you share in groups, apps, and

• ther shared places. This

includes a FB “page” (i.e. a company, band, organization)

Look for the Globe

If you comment on a public post, anyone on FB can potentially see that comment. Look for the globe – that tells you that a post is public, and your comment/like could be seen by others on Facebook, not just your friends. This post was shared 423 times, with over 61,000 likes and over 4,000 comments!

Other ways to report

Suggested Privacy Settings

• Who can see my stuff? Friends (not friends of friends
• r Everyone).
• Limit The Audience for Old Posts – if you shared with

“everyone” in the past, changes all to “friends”

• Timeline and Tagging: Review tags people add to

your own posts before the tags appear on Facebook? Enable. When you're tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience if they aren't already in it? Only me, or friends.

• Profile (Timeline): Edit profile so only friends can see

your school, hometown, friends list, interests.

FB Tools/info for parents

Facebook Help page for Parents: https://www.facebook.com/help/441374602560317/ Social media monitoring tools

• UKnowKids
• Social Firefly
• Reppler (reputation management)

Other Social Media

• Teens will flock to the newest trending social networking

sites – even now leaving FB to get away from parents

• Instagram – mobile photo sharing, teens use as social
• network. Now profiles are on web instagram.com/profile
• Pinterest – online pinboard, share and organize images

(more moms are flocking than teens. Great for sharing recipes!)

• Twitter – microblogging in 140 characters or less
• Tumblr - short form blogging and sharing of photos,

videos, quotes, links.

• All of these are 13+
• What’s Next? Even MySpace is gearing up for a

comeback!

General Tips

• Have the “online safety talk” with your kids early and often

(just like the “other” talk – start earlier than you think you should, and provide info on a need-to-know basis over time).

• Screen time limits
• No computers in bedrooms or phones/devices in room
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• Think before you post – would you be okay with your mom,

grandmother, college admissions officer or future boss to see this?

• What goes on the internet stays on the internet.
• Family media agreement
• Random spot checks
• Relax rules as they get older and prove they can be

responsible.

Resources

• www.bewebsmart.com – Links and Resources

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Questions?