Internet Safety, Educational (Wired-Ed) Division

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Educational (Wired-Ed) Division

The Wired-Ed program, a part of WiredSafety.org, offers over 50 classes to members of WiredPatrol and to the general public.

Classes are presented for everyone that vary from being highly technical (i.e. Nukes, Hostmasks, Viruses, Firewalls) to the very basic (Intro to Search Engines, Ergonomics, Internet Definitions).

These classes include everything from welcoming our new WiredSafety members into the organization (for members only) to teaching the public learners about viruses and firewalls to helping their children surf safely. Special teams within the Wired-Ed division offer classes to children and teenagers. Oftentimes, expert teens trained to teach these programs provide such classes, ranging from "preserving your privacy online" and "knowing who to trust online" to "how to chat safely." The teens and children also learn about responsible surfing and help spread the word about safe surfing offline to their schools and local community groups.

Here, parents can learn about the risks their children might face online and how to minimize those risks. Specialized classes and training programs are given to WiredSafety's high-tech security and cybercrime investigation groups, such as the Cyberstalking and Harassment team, KidsList and Child Exploitation. The WiredCops group also holds special classes for law enforcement agencies online as well.

The Wired-Ed Division schedules its classes around the clock so people in all countries can access them during a time that is convenient to them. The classes are available in other languages, as well, for non-English speakers. Soon, video and audio applications will be added to make our classes more accessible, and to help provide a more interactive learning experience.

Our Wired-Ed instructors are among the most devoted of volunteers. They are chosen for their outstanding people skills and their ability to communicate and teach in an online environment. It takes a special skill set to keep order in online classrooms, and keep the conversation on topic. The instructors patiently answer all questions, and are not afraid to say, "I don't know, but I'll get back to you or refer you to someone who does" in the event that they do not know the answer to a question.

WiredSafety has a broad range of class topics, some of which lead to certifications. Wired-Ed teaches people how to use most of the popular chat programs (AOL, ICQ, mIRC, pIRCh, others), how to be safe using them, and even how to recognize a predator.

Because of the expertise of Parry Aftab, Esq. our Executive Director and author of the leading books on online safety for children, and using information from her latest book, The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (McGraw-Hill), the Wired-Ed program is able to offer classes designed to teach parents how to gain their children's trust and work out rules governing computer use, together. Classes are also given for teachers and school administrators that teach online risk management and give information about the laws that affect children's use of the Internet at schools. A new WiredEducator's Certification is being offered to licensed educators who have completed this special course.

Wired-Ed also has an online library that is equipped with a short, self-paced course called Internet 101. The course offers the basics for getting online, surfing, e-mailing and chatting, and doing it all safely. We also have a Law Library available at this part of the site, and plenty of information is available about cyberstalking and other cybercrimes. While technically not lessons, these provide answers to frequently asked questions on the issues. Providing material for the online library is an ever-growing project as our organization grows. We welcome donations of lesson plans and class materials, as well as information for our site.

The WiredEducator pages will contain links to helpful sites and resources, as well as Wired-Ed's downloadable resources and materials that are available without charge from the site to help educators make their classrooms cybersafe and the children in them cybersmart.

Members of the Wired-Ed division are required to have been a part of the organization for at least three months and have their police letter on file proving they have no criminal record. They must also have taken at least 75 percent of the courses (some a few times), have participated in at least three practice classes, and worked under a mentor (a fellow instructor) for a couple of weeks before they are allowed to hold classes. Many of these classes are logged, and copies of those logs are made available for Wired-Ed administration to review to help improve the delivery of information to the students.

Experienced Wired-Ed instructors may also qualify for specialized training in how to address the different training needs of children, teens, victim groups and law enforcement. Once certified for these special groups, they are able to join the specialized Wired-Ed teams devoted to WiredKids, WiredTeens, WiredCops and CrisisAngel programs.

Since Wired-Ed volunteers are often the first people that new members of WiredSafety have contact with, they are chosen very carefully. Wired-Ed is very proud of this group, and hope you will enjoy the educational experiences offered within WiredSafety's family of sites and programs.

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