TECHNOLOGY BOOT CAMP

MARSHA HARRISMEGAN HOWARD

(AND SPECIAL GUEST, EMERSON)

Safe Searching and YouTube for Kids

Emerson – Trinity Sixth Grader

Safe Searching and Technology:

A Sixth Grade Student’s Perspective

YouTube: Safety Mode

Gives users the option to choose not to see mature content that they may find offensive

Blocks videos with mature content or that have been age-restricted from appearing in video search, related videos, playlists, shows and films.

Uses community flagging to hide objectionable comments and porn-image detection to identify and hide inappropriate content.

Does not remove content from the site but keeps it off the page for users who opt in to Safety Mode

YouTube: Why Safety Mode

Auto Fill (or) Auto Complete in YouTube

Multiple Browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Etc)

Collapsed Comments (words and links)

From “Barbie” to “Barbies” to “Barbies Today”

Safe Searching at Trinity

School-wide: Barracuda Web Filter – hardware Instruction in Tech Lab and Classrooms

Sixth Grade Tablet PC: Webroot – school-installed software which

filters content from the cloud/internet to their personal computer. It follows them EVERYWHERE.

Instruction in Classrooms and Media Classes

Monitoring/Filtering/Blocking Software

Blocks specific sites per your requestTracks sites visitedFilters specific words/phrases

YouTube and Video Alert! It’s very difficult to filter VIDEO content without specific tags and/or comments attached to it.

Filtering, Blocking and Monitoring

They don’t catch everythingThey catch too muchKids can defeat themKids resent themThey give you a false sense of securityThey’re a form of censorship There’s always a friend’s (or brother or

sister’s) computer

Proximity and Time

Ultimately YOU are in control of what your children are doing online!

Family Computer Location?How long are they online? Some monitoring

software can control this.

Browsers and Search Engines for Kids

BrowsersKidZuiPicLukKido’z

Search Engines

Talk to Your Kids

Help kids find positive and safe sites Kidzui (kid friendly search engine)

Don’t let your young children search alone YOU are the best filter

Find the right filter Net Nanny, CYBERsitter, and CyberPatrol all have

good reviewsSet the content filters on your browser

Safari, Explorer, Firefox, ChromeSet the content filters on your search engine

Google, Bing, Yahoo

Google Safe Search

How to Enable Google SafeSearch Filter1. Go to Google Search Preferences page.2. In the SafeSearch Filtering section, choose the SafeSearch level you’d like to use:

Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)

Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only – default behavior)

Do not filter my search results3. Click “Save Preferences” at the bottom of the page.

Virtual Trinity

Subscription Websites that require a username and password can be found on the Virtual Trinity section of Trinity’s website (www.trinityatl.org)

Visit Virtual Trinity on the web to utilize this great resource.

Google Suggestions

http://www.google.com/familysafety/

QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? IDEAS?

MARSHA HARRIS (MHARRIS@TRINITYATL.ORG)

MEGAN HOWARD(MHOWARD@TRINITYATL.ORG)

Now It’s Your Turn!