Webwise Families – Engage, Connect, Play!
Have fun together online and while learning new skills and having fun, begin the conversation, engage with your child, connect!
Webwise offers excellent advice for parents on Internet Safety. There are 4 main areas in the parents section – Advice, Explainers, How to and Publications.
Resources:
SelfieCop: https://www.selfiecop.com. Selfie Cop is a new app which can teach children safer camera behaviour. SelfieCop reminds kids to Stop-&-Think everytime they take or share a photo.
Here are some useful posters and information about the new app.
SelfieCop – Learning
SelfieCop App – FAQs
SelfieCop App – poster 1
SelfieCop App – poster 2
Zeeko – Internet Safety Guide – http://zeeko.ie.
Download it here – Zeeko – Internet Safety Guide. Zeeko provide resources for parents, teachers and schools to empower their children with the tools to protect themselves online. The Zeeko Internet Safety Guide will help parents and teachers navigate the internet and teach their children how to use the internet responsibly. They will find out how to protect their children online and get peace of mind.
Discover how to:- Set safety settings
- Protect your child’s digital footprint
- Talk your kid’s language
- Protect against cyberbullying and stranger danger
- Defend against excessive internet use
- Safeguard against inappropriate content
- http://www.kidrex.org/
– KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search™ and use Google SafeSearch™ technology. A good idea would be to set your homepage to Kidrex site. Click here for instructions on how to do this. You can read more about Kidrex on http://www.kidrex.org/parents/.
Kiddle – http://www.kiddle.co/ is another safe search engine for kids and uses Google search technology. - http://www.webwise.ie/ offers good ideas and resources for internet safety. These are the learning lessons for internet safety. As part of our SPHE curriculum we look at some webwise lessons over the year.
- 10 Internet Safety Tips for Parents can be downloaded here 10 Tips for Parents.
- Stop Cyberbullying
http://vimeo.com/119144265
- An activity Book called Play and Learn: Being Online (suitable for children 4-8 years) is available to download in your chosen language.
http://www.saferinternet.org/activity-book;jsessionid=EFAE3E534CC8FB575F7D77B26DAE0F71
- An eSafety Family Kit is available here. It is suitable for the whole family especially children from 6-12 years.
http://www.esafetykit.net/index2.html
- The Digital Universe of your Children: Online tips for Parents – 3 minute animation which tackles parents concern of “Who are your Kids talking to online”. At the end of the animation eight informative tip sheets give information on problems children may experience online e.g. privacy on social networks, online gaming, blocking, risks online, meeting strangers, personal information and online reputation.
http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/digitaluniverse - Get with it Guides for Parents – Get with IT: A Parents’ Guide to Cyberbulling, Get with IT: A Parents’ Guide to Social Networking, Get with IT: A Parents’ Guide to to New Media Technologies, Get with IT: A Parents’ Guide to Internet Filtering. Click here to view the guides.
- Internet Safety For Parents Blog – A blog developed by a Primary School teacher in Mayo with useful tips and videos – http://internetsafetystpats.blogspot.ie/.
