Parents' Page

Internet Safety

• Yahooligans! Parents Guide (includes Surfing as a Family Matter which provides Internet safety tips)
• WiredKids, the Ultimate Online Safety Project for Kids, Tweens, and Teens
• i-SAFE America
• SafeKids.com (includes the article Child Safety on the Information Highwayby Lawrence J. Magid )
• SafeTeens.com
• BlogSafety.com
• NetsmartzKids: Activities
• Play It Cyber Safe (created by BSA and Weekly Reader)
• ChatDanger.com
• A Parents' Guide to Internet Safety (from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation)
• Walt Disney's Internet Group's Internet Safety Tips
• GetNet Wise includes Safety by Age for 12 to14-year-olds
• FBI Publications: A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety (from the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation)
• Internet Related Safety Tips for Teens (from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
• Dangers Children Face Online (from MSNBC Interactive)
• The PeeJ Guide: For Parents and First-Time Visitors to Perverted-Justice.com
• Why middle school students do not belong on MySpace (Judge Tosses $30M Suit Against MySpace)

Family Contracts for Online Safety

• The Safe-Surfing Contract from WiredSafety.org
• Family Contract for Online Safety: Kid's Pledge from SafeKids.com
• Family Pledge for Online Safety from Yahooligans! Parents' Guide

Internet Filters and Child Safety Software

• GetNetWise: Tools for Families (from the Internet Education Foundation)
• Parental Controls from America Online
• Bess (Secure Computing - the Internet filtering system we us at Jericho Schools)
• Software4Parents.com (Commerical site that sells Internet filtering and monitoring software))

Cyber-Ethics

• The Cybercitizenship.org
• The United States. Department of Justice provides the following links about Cyber Ethics:
  • Rules in Cyberspace: Cyberethics for Kids
  • Cyber Crime
  • Cyberethics for Parents and Educators
• Wired Safety claims to be the world's largest Internet safety, help, and education organization on the Internet. This site includes:
  • Internet Safety, Help and Education: Law, Copyrights - Downloading Music
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Downloading Music from the Internet
  • Online Safety Information
  • Internet Super Heroes: Cyberbullying, Flaming and Cyberstalking
• Types of Cyber Crime (from Play It Cyber Safe )
• Intellectual Property Law (from LEGAL INFO@ Law-Council.com) This site includes:
  • What does sharewhare, freeware and careware mean?
• Ethics in Computing
• Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism (from University of Alberta Libraries)
• 10 Bg Myths About Copyright Explained by Brad Templeton

Cyber-Netiquette

• A Guide to Etiquette on the Net (from Time for Kids)
• Netiquette for Kids (from the Boston Public Library)

General Interest Sites for Parents

• Special Events Page
• Prevention-Smart Parents (Welcome to prevention-smart parents, an online learning aid offering parents and carers information about how to help prevent children from using and abusing drugs).
• PTSA Staff Appreciation Day 2006: FIESTA
• PTSA's Staff Appreciation Day 2005
• Book Fair
• Online Learning Network - Building Learning Communities (from Nassau BOCES New Course on Middle-Level Education aimed at Parents, Board of Education, Teachers, etc.)
• ALA Resources For Parents Teens and Kids (includes recommended sites for kids, teens, parents and families; also includes several recommended reading lists for teens)
• School Libraries and You: Parents and Community- From the American Association of School Librarians.
• Parent Involvement at the Middle School Level (an ERIC Document discussing parent involvement in Middle School)
• Parents as Partners in Social Emotional Learning
• Welcome to the National PTA
• Welcome to MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle School Reform
• Preparing Parents: Middle School Years Time of Tumult and Change for Tweens, Teens, and their Families (from KidSource Online)
• Exceptional Parent Magazine (this site presents a vast amount of information for parents, families, and professionals caring for children with disabilities)
• Connect For Kids
• Parents Soup (contains a wealth of information regarding all aspects of child rearing)
• National Center For Family Literacy: Parents and Children Learning Together
• Parenthood.com (the Parents Topic List provides extensive information about parenthood organized by subject)
• Familyeducation.com (Learning Network Parent Channel)
• National Emergency Asistance Team (NEAT: Helping Schools, Families, and Communities Cope With Violence, from the National Association of School Psychologists)
• KidsHealth
  
  

Web Sites Containing Book Reviews: Barnes & Noble.com Amazon.com Borders.com Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Children's Book Reviews by Grade

Jericho Middle School's Library News (our newsletter for parents)

• May 2006 issue featuring Internet Safety
• March 2005 issue featuring Parents Collection, new Special Events! links on M.S. Library Web Site
• September 2004 issue featuring Multicultural Literature, Updated Web Site, New Online OPAC
• October 2003 issue featuring Book Fair
• January 2003 issue featuring What's New on our Web Site, Author Visit

Electronic Resources

• Jericho Middle School's Online Catalog (OPAC) is available on the Internet.You can search our collection by anywhere, author, title, or subject. If you type "Parents Collection" in the subject field, you will see what books we have available in this new section for you to sign out.
• Jericho Middle School Library's Online Databases. The Jericho Middle School Library subscribes to a number of databases via the Internet. These databases are accessible to your children from home using passwords.
• Jericho Public Library
  Nassau County Public Libraries' Online Catalog: Use this catalog to out what books are available in the Jericho Public Library, as well as all the public libraries in Nassau County.
• Nassau County Public Libraries' Online Databases. From this site Nassau County residents who have a public library card can connect to online databases and have access to the full text of thousands of articles in newspapers, magazines, and reference books.