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Tech Help for Parents
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Are you smarter than your kids when it comes to technology? On this episode, we’ll share some useful tips for anyone with tech-savvy kids.
Guests
Eric Bajuniemi
Eric Bajuniemi
Eric is a helpline and training consultant with Academic and Distributed Computing Services at the University of Minnesota. He has eight years of IT experience in the healthcare, airline, printing, and banking industries and spends his free time as a martial arts practitioner and instructor, teaching both kids and adults.
Links
On Guard Online provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you protect yourself against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.
On Guard Online: Social Networking is a parent’s guide to social networking sites from On Guard Online.
I Keep Safe is a coalition group that teaches basic rules of Internet safety to children and parents, reaching them online and in school. Their site includes a parent resource center with a list of hot topics, informative videos, and a guide that answers 10 common questions that will help parents keep children safe.
Parental Controls for Mac® OS:
- An overview of the parental controls available in Mac OS 10.5
- Using parental controls to set safe limits on an account in Mac OS 10.4
- An overview of Internet safety for children including the available parental controls in Mac OS 10.4
Parental Controls for Windows Vista®:
- Windows Help and How-to: shows how to set up Parental Controls in Windows Vista
- User Account Control Feature Explained: gives details on the User Account Control feature
Buddy
An instant messaging contact whose online status (i.e., available, offline) you can view.
SMS
Short Message Service or "text messaging." Sends text messages between mobile devices (i.e., cellular phones, smartphones, and PDAs).
Parental Controls
Allows a parent to monitor or limit what a child can see or do on a computer.