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• Safety Tips
• Internet Search Tips
• Kid Friendly Search Engines
• Evaluate a Web site
• Microsoft Web tutorial

 

Safety Tips

Always remember to follow the rules of the road when you're surfing the information superhighway:

• Ask your parent's permission before giving out your name, address, phone number, school or any other personal information on the internet.
• If you see or read something that makes you uncomfortable, stop using the computer and go tell your parents.
• Never open up emails, files or web pages from people that you don't know.

Kid Friendly Search Engines

• Yahooligans
• Awesome Library for Kids
• Kartoo
• KidsClick!
• Eduhound
• CyberSleuth for Kids
• Ask Jeeves for Kids

 

Internet Search Tips

• Choose a search engine or directory that's designed especially for kids.
• When you search, try and type in a few important words about your subject. For example, let's say you have to answer the question: Where do Emerald Tree Boa Constrictor snakes live? When you search you could try using important words like emerald, boa, constrictor, snake, or home.
• Leave words like a, an, of or the out of your search.
• If you don't find what you're looking for, try different words that mean the same thing or try combining different words together.
• Sometimes it helps to leave some words out of your search. If you can't find anything when you type in "where do Emerald Tree Boa Constrictors live", try less specific words like boa constrictor home.

Evaluate a Web Site

• Don't assume that every web site you visit has truthful, correct information on it--be an Internet Critic!
• Try to find the author of a web site. Sometimes it is a group of people rather than just one person who created a site. Does the author have any qualifications that make their information more credible or truthful?
• Look at the site address, or URL, for additional clues on who created a web site. For example, if the URL ends in (.edu) it is from a school or college, (.gov) indicates the government, (.org) an organization, (.mil) the military, and (.com) or (.net) are used for personal or commercial web sites.
• Look for a last updated or publication date on a web site. This will help you to determine whether the information is current or from a long time ago. Oftentimes this date is listed at the very bottom of a web page.

Microsoft Insider Tutorial - The complete Internet guide and Web tutorial

From the basics of browsing the World Wide Web to the details of banking online, the Internet Guide delivers the knowledge you need to venture onto the Internet, explore its vast offerings, and make it work for you.