1	Internet Safety Practices Old Trail School 2005
2	CIPA “Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000” Requires schools and libraries to institute some form of filtering or site-blocking to prevent children from being exposed to obscene material, child pornography, or other Internet content which is “harmful to minors”. Requires schools and libraries to adopt an “Internet Safety Policy” containing various provisions designed to protect minors from “inappropriate” materials.
3	Filtering Filtering web content at Old Trail School is done using a program called Cyber Patrol. This program is installed on our server; all computers accessing the internet at Old Trail go through this server which filters for objectionable content. We currently have restrictions in place for the following content areas:
4	Filtering Violence/Profanity Full Nudity Sexual Acts/Tests Gross Depictions/Text Racist/Ethnic Impropriety Satanic/Cult Drugs & Drug Culture Militant/Extremist Illegal/Gambling Alcohol, Wine & Tobacco
5	Monitoring Manual Monitoring of Restricted Sites AUP student policy AUP faculty/staff policy
6	Student Acceptable Use Policy First established in 1998-99 school year and revised annually Computers at Old Trail School are intended for the educational and professional use … Our goal in providing these resources is to use technology to promote educational excellence by reaching out to the real world and the broader learning community. Use of computer resources is a privilege… Old Trail students can use it (the network) as a tool to enhance their learning, to locate data for research projects, to access primary resources, and to work collaboratively.
7	Student Acceptable Use Policy Students will not post personal contact information about themselves or other people. Students will not participate in either “chat-rooms” or “instant messenger” activities. Students will not access personal e-mail accounts from Old Trail School, including monitoring, sending or receiving. Students will not use the Old Trail System to access material that is profane, obscene, pornographic, that advocates illegal or dangerous acts, or that advocates violence or discrimination towards other people (hate literature or groups). If students inadvertently access such material, they should immediately disclose the inadvertent access to a teacher or administrator.
8	Faculty/Staff Acceptable Use Policy First Established in 2000-01 school year, revised annually Agree to comply with the following: …with the guidelines (of the AUP policy) and agree to all provisions of the Policy …to supervise closely my students’ use of the network.
9	Internet Resources for Parents www.protectkids.org www.safekids.com www.safeteens.com www.getnetwise.org www.cyberangels.org http://www.chatdanger.com/ www.parentcentre.gov.uk/usingtheinternet/internetsafety/
10	What Parents Need to Know: Learn how the Internet works Online guides for parents http://www.internet101.org http://www.getnetwise.org/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/ Discuss the safety issues of the Internet with your child Customize Search Engines and ISP’s Preferences
11	Chat, Blogs, Instant Messaging What is a Blog? If you take "Web" and "log," and put them together, you get a blog or another word for online diary. The Ins and Outs of Internet Chat Rooms http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/parents/internet/safe_passage_parents/chatrooms_safety_p.cfm http://www.protectkids.com/parentsafety/imchatips.htm http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/chatsafe/young.htm#tips What is Instant Messenger (IM) or IRC Who is in my child’s buddy list? How much time is my child IMing?
12	Know the Online Lingo Chat Abbreviations online http://searchsmallbizit.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci211776,00.html http://www.parenthood.com/articles.html?article_id=4787 http://www.web-friend.com/help/lingo/chatslang.html
13	Internet Filtering Software for Home Software can be used to filter our harmful websites from being accessed on your computer. Net Nanny and Cyber Patrol are programs that do just that. They restrict internet access, monitor online activity, protect personal information, block IRC chat and newsgroups, and are customizable for individual users. Net Nanny Software: http://www.netnanny.com/ Cyber Patrol Software: http://www.cyberpatrol.com/
14	Computer Monitoring Software Monitoring software or spy-ware creates logs of children’s online activity. Programs such as Online recorder secretly run under windows when your computer starts up and it extracts text from internet applications. It also records every keystroke on your computer without slowing it down or changing it’s performance.
15	Computer Monitoring Software Options Online Recorder Keyboard Monitor Spector Pro Spector for Macintosh Spector for Windows eBlaster iSpyNOW STARR Pro SpyBuddy NETObserve WebMail Spy SpyAgent SpyAnywhere SpyShadow
16	Access Restriction Software The best way to block your child’s access to the Internet at specific times is to install Access Control Software. It is customizable for different users and is password protected. With this software, you can make sure that your children are not using the internet when you’re not around to supervise them.
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