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The Best Place to Get Information on ALL Aspects of Internet Safety is at

OnGuardOnline.gov, it provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.
It even has interactive games!!

	Understanding a Child's Virtual World 01 http://youtube.com/watch?v=DDWiIedbXnM A video from Qwest's parent handbook: Understanding a Child's Virtual World. This video discusses "7 Reasons Good Kids Do Bad Things on the Internet." Project Safe Childhood Video Click image to view Download Project Safe Childhood Video (Running time: 13 min.) Having trouble viewing the video? Open your media player (Windows Media Player or RealPlayer) and follow the prompts for your player: Windows Media Player: Select File | Open URL | paste in the URL, http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/psc_video.zip RealPlayer: Select File | Open | paste in the URL http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/psc_video.zip

Government Agencies that can Help!!

	The FBI has a good site written to children Click here to learn more Project Safe Childhood As part of Project Safe Childhood, the U.S. Department of Justice together with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and the Ad Council have partnered to produce the following Public Service Announcements (PSAs) in an ongoing initiative to protect Americas youth. Further, the Project Safe Childhood Web site provides information to our federal, state, and local community partners that will help protect our children from online exploitation and abuse. Links to the PSAs and Project Safe Childhood Web site are below: Watch PSC Videos:  Campaign Introduction      Everyone Knows Your Name      Bulletin Board View Project Safe Childhood site The Federal Trade Commission

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A Shared PowerPoint presentaion on Internet Safety from Sharepoint.net and Tom McGee from PA.

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