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Technology & Our Children: Internet Enabled Gaming Systems - Yes Parents, You do have to learn to use that game!
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Internet Enabled Gaming Systems - Yes Parents, You do have to learn to use that game! Here's the good news.you now have an excuse to learn that gaming system and 'play'! And the kids don't have the password, the portable gaming systems can go anywhere.and internet may be available for easy connection. Quality or Quantity Time?
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Technology & Our Children: Links & Resources
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. This page will likely always be a work in progress. As I find new useful items to add to the page, I'll include it here. Feel free to leave me a comment as to what you'd find useful here or with any items you have found. What do we need to protect our children from exactly:. Online content and predators:. Http:/ enough.org/inside.php? View my comple...
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Technology & Our Children: Creating Good Passwords
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. Monday, 28 March 2011. The topic of good passwords applies to all areas of our lives, not just the area of our children and technology, so I'm going to focus on making sure that you as a grown up have good passwords first. How many passwords/PINs do you have to remember? What is a good password? First some basic guidelines:. But no birthdays or anni...
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Technology & Our Children: Facebook - Be Careful Who Your Friends Are!
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. Tuesday, 5 April 2011. Facebook - Be Careful Who Your Friends Are! The main take-aways for parents:. There is no guarantee of privacy on facebook. Nothing is really ever deleted from the facebook servers. Schools and employers take facebook seriously when evalutating applicants. Also under Privacy Settings - go to Connecting on Facebook and preview ...
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Technology & Our Children: Software, Movie and Music Piracy - Everyone's doing it...does that make it Okay?
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. Tuesday, 21 June 2011. Software, Movie and Music Piracy - Everyone's doing it.does that make it Okay? There are also very serious legal implications involved with piracy including hefty fines and even jail time depending on where you live. The authorities are taking it much more seriously in recent years, likely due to pressures from the industr...
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Technology & Our Children: Social Networking for Children?!
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. Monday, 18 April 2011. Social Networking for Children? Well, I hope you gleaned a little info in my last post about how to take at least a few measures towards making facebook a little less public. The amount of information out there for the taking is astounding! At the very beginning of this experience, my children and I had a chat about talking to...
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Technology & Our Children: Mom, can I have an email?
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. Saturday, 19 March 2011. Mom, can I have an email? So, my daughter was the last almost-11-year-old on the planet to get her own email account. I guess I'm a little conservative! That being said, there are some things parents can do to monitor and protect. Second, I don't recommend a run of the mill free email account such as gmail, yahoo. Hotmail et...
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Technology & Our Children: Parental Controls for the home computer
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Technology and Our Children. Some advice from a mom of 3 and IT professional to protect our children from the dangers of the internet and other technologies. Saturday, 5 March 2011. Parental Controls for the home computer. I didn't mean for it to be a couple of weeks between posts, but other mommy chores just kept getting in the way! As for the Web filtering, you may be familiar with this concept even at your place of work. Most sizable organisations have by now implemented some form of Web filtering...