*PING* Henk and miskairal (or parents or soon to be parents or friends of parents and everyone els

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* ProteanThread *

Regarding the recent threads about kids and the internet (such as the
recent from miskairal or mine regarding kid safe web browsers) I'm
thinking of compiling a list of kid safe websites (games, chat, no
chat, freeware, downloadable movies such as those from
http://tv.yahooligans.com etc.)

miskairal and Henk kinda gave me the idea. Henk has a great freeware
(awesome list I might add) list but if it is ok with Henk and the
group I'd like to take it a step further and list only sites to
download kids freeware but also include sites where a kid can surf
"supposedly" safely (like Yahooligans, Disney, Nickelodeon, PBSkids,
etc.) I say "supposedly" because there is always that cookie or pop
up ad or other that'll sneak by and pull the child away from these
"so-called" safe sites but still need to be viligant (ok that is
mis-spelled but googled doesn't have a spell checker, too bad so sad).

I amn going to google what I can but I am requesting the participation
of the group (including those who agree with the acf faq and those who
don't). All I am asking is that we put aside our differences, bury
the hatchet, sign the peace treaty, and work on this together, for the
kids?

Well, what do you guys think ? (I was going to use my registered
domain http://www.villiagecouncil.net for something else but I think
it would work better here, i.e. it takes a villiage to raise a child)
 
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Graham Andre

Sounds like a great idea, I was talking to Rudy about this actually, as I
work with children (ICT teacher in a primary school) and there is a wealth
of sites out there, i'll give you a hand if you like

Graham
 
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Henk de Jong

* ProteanThread * said:
Regarding the recent threads about kids and the internet (such as the
recent from miskairal or mine regarding kid safe web browsers) I'm
thinking of compiling a list of kid safe websites (games, chat, no
chat, freeware, downloadable movies such as those from
http://tv.yahooligans.com etc.)

miskairal and Henk kinda gave me the idea. Henk has a great freeware
(awesome list I might add) list but if it is ok with Henk and the
group I'd like to take it a step further and list only sites to
download kids freeware but also include sites where a kid can surf
"supposedly" safely (like Yahooligans, Disney, Nickelodeon, PBSkids,
etc.) I say "supposedly" because there is always that cookie or pop
up ad or other that'll sneak by and pull the child away from these
"so-called" safe sites but still need to be viligant (ok that is
mis-spelled but googled doesn't have a spell checker, too bad so sad).

I amn going to google what I can but I am requesting the participation
of the group (including those who agree with the acf faq and those who
don't). All I am asking is that we put aside our differences, bury
the hatchet, sign the peace treaty, and work on this together, for the
kids?

Well, what do you guys think ? (I was going to use my registered
domain http://www.villiagecouncil.net for something else but I think
it would work better here, i.e. it takes a villiage to raise a child)
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First of all: I think it is basicly a good idea. When there are sites
on my list that you like to use for it: be my guest.

On the other hand: I have some thoughts about "child-safe" web
browsing. Several weeks ago a "child-friendly"-browser was launched
with a lot os 'noise' in the media, here in the Netherlands. Basicly a
very good initiative, but a lot of children lost their interest in this
browser very quickly. The reason: it isn't exciting enough. The result:
children went back to the old webbrowser for the good old
"internet-excitement". An other 'result' of this browser was, that
parents thought that their children really surfed with that webbrowser,
and didn't pay much attention any more about what their children were
doing on the computer.

I think that the idea is good, but that the parents always have to be
responsible about what their children are doing (and seeing) on the
Internet.

With kind regards,

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Henk de Jong
The Netherlands
(e-mail address removed) (Remove _NO_SPAM_)
'Links to Freeware'
http://www.linkstofreeware.vze.com/
http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/
 
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*ProteanThread*

Graham Andre said:
Sounds like a great idea, I was talking to Rudy about this actually, as I
work with children (ICT teacher in a primary school) and there is a wealth
of sites out there, i'll give you a hand if you like

Graham
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any help would be great accepted. you can email me at sysop at rtdos dot
com or wait until i at least get the website going....
 
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*ProteanThread*

Henk de Jong said:
First of all: I think it is basicly a good idea. When there are sites
on my list that you like to use for it: be my guest.

On the other hand: I have some thoughts about "child-safe" web
browsing. Several weeks ago a "child-friendly"-browser was launched
with a lot os 'noise' in the media, here in the Netherlands. Basicly a
very good initiative, but a lot of children lost their interest in this
browser very quickly. The reason: it isn't exciting enough. The result:
children went back to the old webbrowser for the good old
"internet-excitement". An other 'result' of this browser was, that
parents thought that their children really surfed with that webbrowser,
and didn't pay much attention any more about what their children were
doing on the computer.

I think that the idea is good, but that the parents always have to be
responsible about what their children are doing (and seeing) on the
Internet.

With kind regards,

--
Henk de Jong
The Netherlands
(e-mail address removed) (Remove _NO_SPAM_)
'Links to Freeware'
http://www.linkstofreeware.vze.com/
http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/
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Thanks for the support Henk. you're right when you say there is nothing
like Parental Involvment but this may help a little.
 
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Steven Burn

*ProteanThread* said:
Its a start but I'd like to do what I can.... (icra seems to be only IE
compliant am i correct?)
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Last I heard, it worked off of the tags that were inserted into webpages,
and not the browser itself.

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
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miskairal

* ProteanThread * said:
Well, what do you guys think ? (I was going to use my registered
domain http://www.villiagecouncil.net for something else but I think
it would work better here, i.e. it takes a villiage to raise a child)
Click to expand...

I like the village (if villiage means the same as village?)idea very
much - sort of like the center for gossip that leads them to new sites.
Perhaps a page to explain "safe surfing" that a parent could read
through with their child????

I'm not really up on what kids like or kids sites but I just did a
Google search for "kid internet safe site" and there is a lot of stuff
out there. Did you want us to check the sites that are supposedly kid
safe or to find more kids sites or even list other sites eg. tropical
fish breeding or plant reproduction that are safe?

miskairal
 
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