Connect Safely |Videos

Configuring Facebook's new privacy settings

In December 2009, Facebook changed its privacy settings to include ways to control who can see certain information. This video describes how to configure those settings.

PBS Frontline interviews ConnectSafely's Larry Magid

PBS's Frontline's Digital Nation Project was at the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) conference in Washignton DC in Octrober where they caught up with ConnectSafely's Larry Magid talking about the need to balance the use of technology in our lives and relationships.

FRONTLINE's Digital Nation at BlogHer 2009

PBS's Frontline visited the giant BlogHer conference of women bloggers in Chicago, July '09, and interviewed a number of speakers and bloggers, including ConnectSafely co-director Anne Collier (on all that's going on in videogames), author and New York Times Motherlode columnist Lisa Belkin, and Free Range Kids author and blogger Lenore Skenazy (who recently contributed to this site, too). See Anne's Advice for Parents in Frontline's latest project on life online: Digital Nation.

Online Safety 2.0

Click here to view or download a talk given by ConnectSafely co-director Anne Collier in Second Life (this is a "machinima" or in-world video of her avatar, Anny Khandr, giving the talk) about the realities of teens on the fixed and mobile social Web. You'll find the full 38-min. talk or - if you need to download smaller files - Parts 1 and 2. Feel free to contact Anne for her PowerPoint slides via anne(at)connectsafely.org. [The two parts can also be viewed in the Web site of New Jersey tech educator Marianne Mahlstrom (aka Knowclue Kidd), who recorded and produced these machinima.]

Is Kate a Web Addict?

An episode of The Webs that shows that how much time kids should spend online isn't black & white.