How to Use this Site

YouthLink Calgary’s Safe Surf site is a space where parents and children ages 10 to 12 can learn about online safety together. As a family, you’ll learn about 7 popular ways children use the Internet, take 7 online challenges to test your Safe Surf smarts and then create your family’s own online safety promise.

Parents and children

Working together to read through the 7 learning pages and complete the 7 corresponding quizzes should about 30 minutes. The site will remember your computer and what you have completed, so you don’t have to complete all the activities at once.

The Parents section of this site contains in-depth information, resources and steps you can take to make your kids online experience as safe and enjoyable as possible.

Teachers and students

YouthLink Calgary’s Safe Surf site can be used to educate your students about online safety. Depending on your access to computers in your classroom and how you want your students to use the activities, you can use a variety of approaches.

• Students could work at completing the activities individually
• Students could work in pairs
• Your class could be divided into seven groups (the number of different activity areas on the site) and each group could complete those activities and report back to the class on what they learned
• You could review the site as an all-class activity, demonstrating the different site features and completing the challenges as a group, with you leading the discussion

Note: Reading through the seven learning pages and completing the seven corresponding quizzes should take between 30 – 40 minutes. The site will remember users’ computers and what they have completed, so you don’t have to complete all the activities all at once.

For more information on how to educate your students about online safety, visit the Teacher’s Resource Area.

How to use Browser, The Online Safety Guardian

Browser is a cyber guard dog who lives on your desktop. His main role is to remind kids about online safety and store a copy of your family’s online safety promise. He’ll also keep you entertained with desktop antics and an endless appetite for cyber bones!

If you don’t want Browzer to be around when you surf the net, don’t worry, you can make him disappear until your kids use the computer!

Get Flash Player 

Download the latest Flash Player for your computer at the Adobe.com website.

Technical Requirements

This site is compatible with current versions of all major web browsers. Flash Player is required to complete the Safe Surf Online Challenge, and to use the downloadable Browzer Safety Guardian.

Browzer the online safety guardian works with the following operating systems:

Windows 2000, XP, and Vista

• Flash 8 or 9 AS1/ AS2 SWF (AS3 support in work).
• IE 5.5 or greater.

Windows 98, ME, and NT

• Flash 7 SWF.
• IE 5.5 or greater.

Mac 10.2.8 or later

• Flash 8 or 9 AS2 SWF (AS3 in beta).

Uninstalling Browzer

To uninstall Browzer, simply drag the application to the Trash (Mac) or Recycle Bin (Windows).