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A Parents' Guide to Facebook

NEW! The 2012 edition of ‘A Parents’ Guide to Facebook’

February 2, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

I am pleased to announce that we at ConnectSafely.org have just released the 2012 edition of our Parents' Guide to Facebook. It's already being translated into Arabic and Spanish. Since Release 1.0 of the Guide a little over a year ago (this one is a full 2.0), Facebook has made a lot of changes – including Timeline (the page formerly known as "profile"), more and more "in-line privacy controls" … [Read more...] about NEW! The 2012 edition of ‘A Parents’ Guide to Facebook’

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy Tagged With: A Parents' Guide to Facebook, consumer privacy, Facebook IPO, Parenting, Privacy, Social Media, social networking

Digital parenting advice from across the pond

November 19, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

British mobile giant Vodafone has crammed a whole lot of parenting into its spanking-new guide for parents. Available in print in the UK and online here, Digital Parenting offers 112 pages of interviews, how-to's (on everything from Google SafeSearch to Windows 7 Parental Controls), and expert views on a large range of issues: digital parenting by age and stage, cyberbullying, sexting, adult … [Read more...] about Digital parenting advice from across the pond

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: A Parents' Guide to Facebook, digital parenting, online parenting advice, Parenting, Vodafone

Check out our new ‘Parents’ Guide to Facebook’!

November 8, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

We ConnectSafely folk are pleased (and excited) to tell you about our new little Facebook guide for parents, educators, and everybody looking for the basics on the world's most popular social networking site – what it is, why young people use it, how to turn it into a great parenting tool, and how to optimize its privacy settings for teens. I started NetFamilyNews 11 years ago on the premise that … [Read more...] about Check out our new ‘Parents’ Guide to Facebook’!

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: A Parents' Guide to Facebook, ConnectSafely, digital footprint, Facebook, online safety, Parenting, parents guide, Privacy, privacy settings, reputation, Social Media, social networking

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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