Wesley Fryer's Page

Have you had a conversation with your own children or students lately about their online profile? What's appropriate to use for a profile picture or avatar? What could the consequences be down the road (or right away) of using an inappropriate profile picture or avatar? Some social networking sites use "gravatars" which can be "rated" like you rate movies. … Continue

I have drafted a new presentation / workshop for parents that I will be sharing twice later this month in the Oklahoma City area. I have titled it "Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents." http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/internetsafety At the suggestion of Karen Montgomery I added resources related to instant messaging yesterday. I would love feedback on the content and links. I am also wondering about the best way to share these resources with parents. I am considering writing the… Continue

I'm scheduled to share two presentations later this month about Internet Safety with parents. 1 presentation will be at a church, another will be at a school. I've updated the resource page (wiki page) with ideas and links that I'll be sharing. It is on:

http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/internetsafety

I'll be crafting a new handout for parents as well and will link it there when it's done, as well as post a link here to… Continue

David Burt's blog site Filtering Facts is a great resource related to content filtering for schools, libraries, and homes. David has posted a thorough review of OpenDNS to his blog, and I've subscribed to his blog with my RSS reader (Google Reader) to stay up on his latest finds. My main recommendation with regard to Open… Continue

I was delighted to learn about the free service OpenDNS today when visiting our local Apple Store, which can be used to provide FREE content filtering on your entire home network. I posted more details about this to my blog in the post, "Home Internet Content filtering needs: Solved with OpenDNS." If you have had experiences with OpenDNS, g… Continue