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America Links Up:
An Internet Teach-In! |
This event is part of America Links Up: A Kids Online Teach-In, a
campaign to encourage and support Internet educational events in communities across the
country. The campaign was kicked off in Washington, DC, during National Kids Online Week
in September 1998, and its sponsors will continue to support hundreds of local events
during the next school year. America Links Up is sponsored by major corporations and
scores of educational and non-profit organizations. The focus of the event is to
learn about:
- Internet basics,
- tools that promote a safe and rewarding online
experience,
- good quality "content" on the
Internet and how to use it, and
- ways to safely navigate around the Internet
The following is just a sample of examples and
guides that will enhance your use of the Internet. We encourage your participation!
Evaluating Content: What are the cautions and concerns…? What
can you do?
| Be Cautious in Cyberspace! |
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Mark Twain (a not very clearly identified "spoof")
Mankato, Minnesota (to prove that not everything you see "published" is to be believed---a delightful and clearly
identified spoof!)is to be believed---a delightful and clearly
identified spoof!)
Learn how to evaluate content
based on simple criteria:
UWSP's Evaluating Internet Resources:
http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/ref/vrdeval.htm
How to Find Good Sites: What are the cautions and concerns…? What
can you do?
700+ Great Sites: Amazing, Spectacular,
Mysterious, Colorful Web Sites for Children and the Adults Who Care About Them (Compiled by the Children and Technology
Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American
Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html
UWSP's Virtual Reference Desk:
http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/ref/vrd.htm
Copyright: What are the cautions and concerns…? What
can you do?
UWSP's Copyright Guide:
http://library.uwsp.edu/copyrigh.htm
Filtering: The Internet is the world’s largest, unfiltered
collection of information…
Internet Filtering pages from the American Library
Association:
http://www.ala.org/aasl/filtering.html
Sites for further exploration...
America Links Up
http://www.americalinksup.com/
Safe Surfing (A Sampling of Online Resources for Parents and Kids Compiled by the American
Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/teach-in/surf.html
updated
December 01, 2005
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