The Internet Is it safe

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The Internet Is it safe?

• Internet Safety
• March 22nd 2006
• Schaumburg High School

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Welcome - Introductions

• Dr. Sharon Cross Principal
• Scott Weidig Tech Coordinator
• Det. Pete Dudek SPD / ICAC Officer

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• Outline
• Introductions
• Opening comments about the internet (Mirror to
  society)
• Comments about companionship - poll the audience
  about interests i.e. who here is interested in
  gardening? model aircraft? music? etc. there are
  groups out there for everyone, The internet
  provides an easy access to finding others with
  similar interests.
• Mini-Safety Quiz (Verbal with raised hands?) How
  many have PC's? More than one? PC's in kids
  bedrooms? Your children's passwords? etc.
• PPT presentation - Internet Safety
• Video - Dateline NBC 5 min (in presentation)
• Video - Tracking Teresa 5 in (in presentation)
• MySpace demonstration
• AOL Chat demonstration
• Questions?

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Is the Internet Good or Bad?

• Online Banking
• Quick / Instant Communication (Email / IM /
  Forums)
• Research and Information
• Ideas Exchange
• eCommerce
• Visit Distant Lands
• Real-time World Views
• Political Action

• Phishing / Fraud
• Spam / Viruses
• Online Predators
• Faulty / Incomplete / Fraudulent Information
• Cyber-bullying / stalking
• Pornography
• Sites promoting destructive behavior
• Political Action ?

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GIWIST
Students are natives to cyberspace, where the
rest of us are immigrants Douglas Ruskoff

• Why has the Internet caught on?
• Easy and fun (communication, research, gaming,
  social)
• Available 24 hours a day
• Can communicate with anyone anywhere easily and
  instantaneously
• Does not require a tremendous amount of knowledge
  to use

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Dateline News Report

You may never have heard of MySpace.com, but it's
a safe bet, your kids have. It's a social
networking site sort of a cyber combination of
a yearbook, personal diary and social club. The
biggest of them is MySpace.com. With more than 50
million members, its one of the fastest growing
Web sites in the country.
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Challenges Facing Teens
Everyone else has it..
Fear
Uncertainty
Parents
Drugs
College
How do I fit in?
Love
Are others like me?
Grades
Friends
Money
Alcohol
Sex
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FYI
a short list of social networking websites

• www.myspace.com 52 million users
• www.xanga.com 45 million users
• www.sms.ac 40 million users (cell phone based
  service)
• www.friendster.com 24 million users
• www.orkut.com 12 million users (associated with
  google)
• www.livejournal.com 9 million users
• www.facebook.com 6 million users
• www.360.yahoo.com 2 million users
• www.tagged.com 1 million users

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JTLYK
there are risks associated with the internet

• Social networking dangers
• Unwanted people trying to meet children
• on-line
• Access to inappropriate material
• Releasing private information
• Participation in illegal activities
• Cyber-bullying
• Exposure to pornographic or sexually
• explicit material

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Other Internet Dangers

• Some Other Internet dangers
• Tobacco and alcohol advertisements,
• Bomb-building sites,
• Sites that endorse participating in eating
  disorders,
• Sites that advocate taking drugs,
• That contain violence and gore,
• Misinformation, and hate literature.
• Sites that sell guns, drugs, poisons, or alcohol,
  
• That let your kids gamble online or are portals
  for viruses or hackers

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FYI signs of inappropriate internet use

• According to the FBI, some signs that your child
  might be at risk on-line include
• Your child
• Spends large amounts or increasing larger amounts
  of time on-line - particularly at night.
• Quickly changes screens or turns off the monitor
  when you enter the room
• becomes withdrawn from the family
• is sharing an on-line account with an unknown
  user
• or resists sharing passwords or information
  related to their computer use
• You find inappropriate material on the home
  computer.
• Illicit pop-up advertisements and e-mail spam
  appears when you use the computer.

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Social Networking

• Where people of similar interests can come
  together and share information, stories, fears,
  and triumphs.
• Often you can share pictures
• Talk online chat
• Post journals blogs
• Currently the most popular is
• MySpace.com

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FMTYEWTK

• www.myspace.com
• Owned by Fox Media
• Free and easy to use
• 52 million users (5 of all Internet users) and
  growing
• Open to anyone over the age of 14
• Over 1.5 million pictures are posted each day on
  myspace.com
• The premiere of the NBC show The Office was on
  MySpace

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IMHO
myspace is popular because it is easy

• Creating a myspace account
• Go to myspace.com
• Create an account
• Verify your account through email
• Invite your friends
• Start building your page
• Details part of the MySpace template
• Surveys
• Sample Survey 1
• Sample Survey 2

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OLL - Building Friends

• Invite friends
• Accept friends (and all of theirs)
• Join groups
• Schaumburg
• Schaumburg Alumni
• Lots to choose from
• Keep all your friends informed
• Blurbs and Blogs
• Let your friends participate through comments
• Rate your friends

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MySpace.com

• Demonstration of MySpace.com by Detective Peter
  Dudek
• Schaumburg Police Department
• Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force

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TMI
the dangers of social networking sites and the
internet

• Users often post sensitive information
• Locations home, school, work, hangouts
• Contacts email, IM, friends
• Numbers phone, addresses
• Other Details age, height, weight, gender,
  likes/dislikes, school schedules, activities,
  sports, family, social information

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Tracking Teresa

• Just how much information can be TOO much?
• How easy is it to target kids online?

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Caution!

• Sensitive information found on MySpace.com and
  other social networking sites from local students

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Phone numbers

• I gots a new cell phone number so you better
  call it....(847) 494-1
• hi i'm NAME, i am 14 years old And am going to
  be a freshman at SHS, i livein Schaumburg ...
  847 891-!
• you dont have my number its 847-809- call me
  and well talk about the ol' days haha

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Calendar

• Feb 14 2006 600P Musical Rehearsals _at_ Schaumburg
  High School
• Feb 16 2006 345P EC Choir Rehearsal _at_ Schaumburg
  High School
• Feb 16 2006 600P Musical Rehearsals _at_ Schaumburg
  High School
• Feb 18 2006 1200P Voice Lessons at School Of
  Music _at_ Arlington Heights

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Details of school and work

• Schools Schaumburg High School
• Schaumburg, ILLINOIS 2002 to Present Graduated
  2006
• Degree High School Diploma
• Clubs Forensics, track and field, jr. class
  council, student council, german honor society,
  german club, band, choir
• Work
• Prism Health CareSchaumburg, Illinois US
• AramarkSchaumburg, Illinos US

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AOL Chat Demonstration

• Is this an issue here? Should we be concerned?
• AOL Chat Demonstration

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Map of Registered Sex Offenders

• There are real dangers close to home.

Registered Sex Offenders within 5 miles of SHS
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What are SHS and D211 Doing

• District 211 and Schaumburg High School reduce
  the risk of inappropriate Internet surfing at
  school in several ways
• Students are encouraged to use school computers
  for educational purposes.
• Students who use computers in classrooms are
  under teacher supervision.
• With parent permission, students may also log
  onto the Internet in the Media Center where
  student computer areas are monitored by adults
• Internet content is filtered at the District
  level by a program called WebSense.
• The Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is reviewed with
  students and can be found on the desktop of each
  computer throughout the year.
• Informing Parents and the community about
  internet safety
• Developing materials and information for students
  presentations to be held in the future

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PA NP P911!
what parents can do at home to keep the Internet
safe

• Talk to your kids
• Ask them why they made their profile
• Have them explain what it says about them
• Provide your feelings about their site
• Search for their sites using their email address
  or school
• Inform them of the dangers of TMI
• Have them remove personal information or contact
  the web host to do it yourself
• Talk about the ways that a predator may reach out
  to your child through the internet
• Have a Technology Plan
• Location, hours of use, appropriate Internet use
• Use technology
• Use software or hardware to block or monitor
• View internet history or use a history viewer
• Visit www.software4parents.com
• Visit www.wiredsafety.org for tips on internet
  safety and help for resolving problems

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What Can We Do?

• Talk to your children.
• Visit their favorite sites. Where are they going?
• Keep the computer in the family room or another
  open area of your home.
• Create and post your families Internet Rules on
  or near the monitor.
• Create and use an Internet safety pledge.
• Look into and consider using safeguarding
  programs.

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What Can We Do?

• Talk to them about never meeting in person with
  anyone they first "met" online.
• Know who your children are exchanging E-mail
  with.
• Only let them use chat areas when you can
  supervise.
• Be aware of any other computers your child may be
  using.
• Educate them to use nondescript Screen names.
• If you suspect online "stalking" or sexual
  exploitation of a child, report it to the
  Schaumburg Police Department immediately.

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HTH - other resources

• Be Safe Online (http//www.besafeonline.org/)This
  site discusses common problems associated with
  e-mail, instant messaging, and file sharing.
• Be Web Aware (http//www.bewebaware.ca/english/def
  ault.aspx)Safety tips are organized by age group
  on this site. It also includes a database of
  kid-friendly web sites.
• Get Net Wise (http//www.getnetwise.org/)A site
  created and maintained by the Internet Education
  Foundation, it is a resource for understanding
  the Internet and how to protect your family from
  potential Internet-related problems.
• i-Safe (http//www.isafe.org/)A well-organized
  site that provides information for parents,
  children, and educators. Many suggestions for
  filtering and monitoring Internet use can be
  found at this site.
• Wired Safety (http//www.wiredsafety.org/)This
  site contains many resources to promote
  responsible and safe computer use.
• See real life stories of some bad things that
  have happened through personal communication on
  the Internet at netsmartz.org.

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WIBNI there was nothing to worry about?

• IYSWIM - there are real internet dangers out
  there and we need to work together to protect
  our kids.

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Thanks for attending TTFN

• Still have questions?
• Come to our free Parent Technology Information
  Class
• Thursday Nights from 7-9pm in Room 191
• For details contact Scott Weidig at
  sweidig_at_d211.org.

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• Questions?

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Sources

• http//www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul
  2005/tc20050719_5427_tc119.htm
• http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11064451/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networ
  king_sites
• www.wiredsafety.org
• www.myspace.com
• http//www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/13845456.
  htm?templatecontentModules/printstory.jsp
• http//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/06/scitech/
  pcanswer/main1289195.shtml
• http//www.missingkids.com/adcouncil/pdf/lingo/onl
  inelingo.pdf
• http//www.netsmartz.org/