SELF-STUDY: Internet Safety in a Connected World (5 clock hours)
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| Five Stars | |
“This is a must have course for anyone who has children or works with children who access the Internet.”
Issues that the students of today, parents, teachers and those who are part of their world face online is the essence of this content. Participants discover areas of the Internet used by students, what kinds of threats exist on the Internet and how everyone can protect their loved ones, family members, students and those under their care or responsibility. A special focus of the course includes ways in which adults can protect themselves online.
- Social networks
- Instant messaging & texting
- Chat rooms
- Gaming & virtual worlds
- Vulnerabilities of Children Online
- Cyberbullying
- Online predators
- Tips & tools for protecting children online
- And more…
See inside this course…
Thanks for creating this course! So important since we live in a technology world and we need to educate students and parents about how its helpful and hurtful. Thanks!
Lots of information for a TECH-SAVVY world. I learned a lot!
Crucial class for all teachers and parents alike.
Thank you for the convenience of these courses.
An excellent course!
Great, informative course!
Great course.
I truly enjoyed this course and learned a great deal. I plan to incorporate this information in my future classes.
Thanks.
The videos and booklets are a nice addition.
I have never had an internet safety course & found this to be very helpful & informative. Good information to have as well as share with others!
I am pleasantly surprised by how much I am enjoying my classes. I love learning, and the two courses I have completed were fun and informative.
This class was full of helpful information. Thanks for sharing!
Good information on online situations and keeping kids safe with technology. Just enough to be useful, not daunting. Thanks.
Thanks for the useful information about how to protect young people (and ourselves) from cyber dangers!
Felt the class was well organized and had information that would be helpful to anyone regardless of their profession.
"I learned so many new sites in this class. I had know idea how many different social networking sites were out there."
Great course with a lot of ""real world"" resources for protecting children & reporting online criminals.
I enjoyed learning about the Exif data on pictures, did not know about that. I also plan on going back through to visit the websites that were recommended. Thank you for the information to make me more aware as a parent and teacher.