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Additional Information and Training

  • Request a NetSafe Presentation
    If you would like someone to come and do an internet safety presentation to your school, or parent organization contact a NetSafe Utah Trainer and request a presentation.

  • Internet Safety for Educators Course
    This online course examines many of the dangers that arise regarding the safe use of Internet and computer technologies in educational settings. We outline the risks and dangers to kids, discuss important terms and technologies and present viable solutions so that both students and educators can use the Internet and their computers safely.

  • Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats
    Mobilizing educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social aggression.

  • Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray
    An article on how schools are dealing with Cyberbullies.

  • Link to NetSafe Utah
    If you would like to link to the NetSafe site from your organizations web site visit the UEN widget's page.

  • 3 Ways to Keep Students Safer Online - PDF
    This handout provides information for school to help keep their students safe online.

  • Online safety report discourages scare tactics
    Social networking can be sensibly incorporated into the classroom, a federal task force says in an article by eSchoolNews.com.

Anne Collier, UCET Keynote Speaker Presentations and Notes

Health Education Lesson Plans on Internet Safety

Grades 7-8

Grades 9-12

Prevent Child Abuse Utah - Internet Safety & Child Abduction Prevention Program

<empty>Prevent Child Abuse Utah offers free training to students on Internet safety and child abduction prevention. This program, which was reviewed by the Elementary Steering Committee and the Utah State Office of Education, is available in Northern Utah schools.

PCAU also offers training sessions to Utah's school personnel, DARE and resource officers. This opportunity trains professionals to educate the students they serve.

The sessions include training in the NetSmartz and Protecting Utah Kids curricula. The materials are designed to serve 10-17 year old students.

For more information about the Protecting Utah Kids program, please call Carrie or Ryann at 801-920-5717 or visit the Prevent Child Abuse Utah web site.

Online Resources

  • Link to NetSafe Utah
    Use one of the NetSafe widget to add a link to NetSafe Utah site on your school or district site.

  • CyberSmart!
    CyberSmart! fosters 21st century skills to increase student engagement and prepare students to achieve in today's digital society. In this way we are very different—and substantially more effective—than organizations that only promote messages alerting educators, students, and parents to the dangers of the Internet. While we do directly address online safety and security issues, we do so with a clear focus on the broader educational objective.

  • Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet (Lesson Plan)
    Developed by ReadWriteThink
    Naming takes on new meanings in digital settings. As students build personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles, they can be unaware of the ways that others may use the aliases, names, and other information that they choose and share. In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings. Then they choose and explain names and profiles to represent themselves online.

  • Creating a Safe Online Profile (Activity)
    Developed by ReadWriteThink
    In this activity from ReadWriteThink, teenagers explore online names by looking at sample e-mail addresses to determine what they can tell about the person who uses the account. After this exploration, teens choose a screen name or e-mail address for themselves, as well as decide on personal details to include on a safe, online profile.

  • NetSmartz
    This Web site, from The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, provides information about NetSmartz, an interactive, educational safety resource that teaches kids and teens how to stay safer on the Internet. The site has many resources for kids, teens, parents, educators, and law enforcement officials, including the video Tracking Teresa. This video explores Internet safety by demonstrating how a person can be tracked simply by accessing their online profile, screen name, and e-mail address.

  • Teaching Students to Be Safe: Thinkfinity Online Safety Resources
    Additional resources to help children and teens protect themselves and their identity with Thinkfinity's Internet Safety resources.

  • Skills for Life Online
    Free curriculum for teaching online life skills in K-12 classrooms put together by iLOOKBOTHWAYS.


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