Ten Ways to Stay Safe on the Internet

Gr 5 Up—This program is snappy and fast-paced, but it never skims over important information. Two young hosts present the 10 topics and provide segues, while four students are interviewed about their use of social media and their online lives. The information covers privacy settings, passwords, texting while driving, giving out your location, catfishing, anonymous apps, sexting, cyberbullying, phishing scams, and downloading safety. Common sense suggestions for how to conduct your digital life make up the bulk of the advice: Do not post anything you do not want the world to see. Nothing posted online is truly anonymous. Postings are forever, no matter what users are told, and if you encounter a cyberbully, turn to a trusted adult. The program often uses screenshots of apps to explain how to work with privacy settings. The devices shown and the apps discussed may go out of favor (or out of business) as social media and technology change, which will date this DVD fairly soon. However, everything about it—the images, the sound mix, the script, the editing, and the presenters—is top-notch.