ConnectSafely: Smart Socializing Starts Here Website
Subjects:
Ethics & Communities, Internet Safety & Security
Grade Levels:
6-8, 9-12
Source: Tech Parenting Group
ConnectSafely is for parents, teens, educators, advocates - everyone engaged in and interested in the impact of the social Web. The user-driven, all-media, multi-platform, fixed and mobile social Web is a big part of young people's lives, and this is the central space – linked to from social networks across the Web - for learning about safe, civil use of Web 2.0 together.
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