Internet Safety in and out of the Classroom
I came across an article on internet safety and thought it was worthy of sharing. This is a great resource to peruse about internet safety and how to keep your student safe at home. The article highlights specifics about monitoring your students use and ways you can support them at home. Before delving into what more you need to be doing let me share with you how your child is being protected right now as they participate in online school. School devices have protections set up by your district's IT department to prevent access to certain web sites. While this is not as strict as the firewalls set up on school campuses they do provide an extra layer of security. Other security features that are being used by many teachers are filters around hyperlinks. These filters isolate the video the teacher wants to share so students are not put into the Youtube pipeline that will keep playing videos for them. The most popular these days are Safesharetv and Viewpure . So what
