Learning and Living in the Online World

We have updated our Internet Safety tutorial to include brand new, up-to-date content that is easier to understand and integrate into your everyday online experience.

Do you know how much anyone can find out about you by doing a simple web search?

Emailing, texting and social networking may be second nature forms of communication for many of us, but it seems like every day we are encountering more and more stories about people getting into real trouble due to embarrassing emails or online postings. What about this medium makes us write and post things that we would likely not say to an individual face to face?

We are going to be updating and adding to our internet topics this year and wanted to get your opinion about which topics you would like to learn about. Take our survey.

Children and teens represent a growing number of online users who, like adults, are surfing the Internet, exchanging email, posting and reading messages in newsgroups, and joining conversations in chat rooms.

While there are numerous benefits for children to use this technology, there are times when they have and can become targets for crime and exploitation on the Internet.