Click – Technology Guide For Parents

• Click is a free, online guide to help parents understand what new technologies can do and how they are used.
• New issues published bimonthly at www.schools.nsw.edu.au/click
• Provides parents with ways to protect their children from dangers online.
• Promotes a positive attitude towards technology.
• Encourages parents to try new technologies for themselves. The department has created areas in YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube as starting points for parents.
• Looks at everything from cyberbullying, gaming, virtual worlds, mobile phones, buying a computer to homework help.
• Combines safety tips with information on what the technology is and how it works

• Twitter: What’s all the noise about?
  Read how Twitter works and why more people are using it to stay in touch, access breaking news or even as a searchable family diary.
• Emails and Facebook - Are you giving away too much?
  With as little as eight of your friends names, spammers and scammers can unearth all kinds of private information about you. Find out how much is too much information, and how to play it safe.
• Passwords - choosing ones to keep your kids safe.
  New programs search the dictionary to crack your passwords, Click tells you how to create tamper-proof passwords to keep your information as safe as possible.
• A cheat’s guide to social networking.
  How to become a social media butterfly or at least know what Facebook, My Space, Twitter, Bebo, and YouTube are for.
• The other side of the divide
  Expert blogger and Girlfriend journalist, Tom Wood says the dangers of the internet are often overplayed in the media and he lends a teenager’s insight into what’s really happening online.

• Sexting - what every parent should know.
  James O’Loghlin talks to child psychologist Kimberley O’Brien about sexting – sending sexual images via mobile phone.

  Quotes from Kimberley O’Brien:
  “The thing with kids doing it or adolescents doing it is they could be later charged with being in possession of child pornography. Just as if an adult was in possession of an image of a child in a pornographic position, that would also be child pornography.
  I think the problem is that children and adolescents are quite unaware of how serious the situation could be - because they are in fact breaking the law.”

  Podcast excerpt
  In…It often comes about quite innocently in the playground…. and this is what’s called sexting …Out (mp3 358kB 22secs)
  Podcast transcript
  Safe Sexting - No such thing Fact Sheet (pdf 480kb)

• Getting started with Flickr - a step by step guide to storing and sharing your photos and videos on Flickr.
  Transcript

The NSW Department of Education and Training delivers public education and training from pre-school) through to Year 12.  It also provides TAFE NSW courses and a range of courses for adults. The department is the largest single organisation, public or private, in Australia. With a recurrent budget of $11.8 billion, the department is responsible for around one quarter of the State's total budget.

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