Connect with your Kids
www.connectwithyourkids.org

In the fall of 2007, New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte announced a website and Internet Safety Guide for kids. The website, Connect with your Kids, provides tips and information about internet safety. The Internet Safety Guide helps kids and their parents to become more aware of ways to keep safe while using the Internet.

CyberSmart
www.cybersmart.org

CyberSmart addresses safety and security issues within the broader objective of helping educators and students acquire 21st Century Skills. They offer:

A curriculum, free to educators, designed to empower K-8 students to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively. Originally co-published with Macmillian/McGraw-Hill, it contains original standards-based lesson plans and student activity sheets offered in a non-sequential format for flexible implementation.

A set of five online professional development workshops to help educators become familiar with the new literacies associated with Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

A free browser toolbar specially designed for educators.

NetSmartz
www.netsmartz.org

On February 18, 2004, New Hampshire's Attorney General's office, working with the Department of Education and the Governor's office, announced a cooperative effort to bring the 'NetSmartz Workshop' to New Hampshire’s children. The program, provided at no cost to New Hampshire, uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children (ages 5 thru 17) how to stay safer on the Internet. The goal of the ‘NetSmartz Workshop’ is to extend the safety awareness of children to prevent victimization and increase self-confidence whenever they go online.

i-SAFE America
www.isafe.org

In 2002, the U.S. Congress designated and funded i-SAFE America to bring Internet safety education and awareness to our nation's youth. The organization provides students with the critical-thinking and decision-making skills they need to recognize and avoid dangerous, destructive, or unlawful online behavior, and to respond appropriately. i-SAFE works with elected officials at all levels from around the country to educate communities about Internet safety. As part of its mission, i-SAFE develops curriculum appropriate for K-12 and conducts Internet safety education programs in all 50 states.

SafeTeens and SafeKids
www.safeteens.com and www.safekids.com

SafeTeens.Com. SafeKids.Com and The Online Safety Project are operated by Lawrence J. Magid, a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of several articles about online safety. The websites provide a variety of tips and tools to keep kids safe online. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for providing support for the booklets Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway, accessible from the home page.

Ongoing financial support for Online Safety Project comes from America Online, Network Solutions and Disney.Com. Other organizations which have made contributions include SIPR, MCI, Paradesa Media and the Polly Klaas Foundation. The Online Safety Project is not affiliated with the National Safe Kids Campaign.

GetNetWise
www.getnetwise.org

GetNetWise has an extensive list of online sites, parental monitoring tools, great suggestions, and more. GetNetWise is sponsored by a wide range of Internet industry corporations and public interest organizations. The GetNetWise coalition wants Internet users to be only "one click away" from the resources they need to make informed decisions about their family's use of the Internet.

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