Internet Usage Safety Tips

The St. Thomas Student-Parent Handbook discusses internet safety tips for students who develop and maintain personal websites and blogs (excerpt from pages 27-28 in the 2008-2009 handbook.)

Other Internet Usage Safety References:

In this issue of A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety, an online publication from the US Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation, warning signs that your child might be at risk online as well as online exploitation are discussed.

An online newsletter, i-EDUCATOR Times, is published several times a year by isafe.org. Read about cyber bullying and cyber safety education in the May/June 2008 issue (the download takes a few seconds).

The My Space website has published their own suggested safety tips.

Phi Delta Kappa International posted an article on their website regarding Confronting Electronic Bullying. Find out what electronic bullying is, how it works, and what school admininstrators, teachers, you, and your son can do about it!

The documents above are in the Adobe ® Acrobat (PDF) format. If you do not yet have the Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, you should download a copy of it first because it is used to view and print the documents.