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I-SAFE Brings Students Together World-Wide to Raise Internet Safety Awareness for Safer Internet Day 2007

Posted on: Monday, 27 November 2006, 09:00 CST

i-SAFE Inc., the world leader in Internet safety education, and Insafe, the network of national nodes coordinating Internet safety awareness in the European Union (EU), come together to bring the Internet community closer in a global student competition "Crossing Borders" for Safer Internet Day (SID) on February 6, 2007. Schools from around the world are invited to enter the competition, work in pairs with a foreign school, and win valuable prizes for their schools.

"We are proud to join Insafe during SID 2007," said Teri Schroeder, i-SAFE president and CEO. "Through our global experiment students are empowered to build on their Internet safety knowledge and share their learning with their peers. Our goal is to spread Internet safety awareness and continue to provide education and empowerment to students world-wide."

i-SAFE will pair EU member schools to United States schools for a creative Internet safety project filming a "making of" video. Students will choose a project theme (e-privacy, netiquette, or power of images) and work together to prepare the entry for the competition. Students will be captured on video as they create their project and speak out about their online experiences.

The paired schools will collaborate using Web technology tools to communicate and share the project. The footage will be available to a global audience via streaming video from the i-SAFE Web site. The link to the video and the final creative project will be released on SID 2007 during the Insafe Blogathon. Winners for the competition will be announced at the completion of the blogathon.

i-SAFE is the first associate node of the Insafe network outside the European Union and now provides world-class Internet safety education to EU schools. The i-SAFE International Education Program is available at http://international.isafe.org to EU member nodes through online professional-development training modules. Through its i-LEARN International video modules, i-SAFE provides educators the knowledge to teach the core topics important to promoting safe and responsible Internet use -- Child Safety, Online Behavior, Protecting Personal Information, and Computer Security -- preparing them for lessons ranging from online predator awareness to plagiarism, identity theft, bullying, and more.

About i-SAFE Inc.

Founded in 1998 and active in all 50 states, i-SAFE Inc. is the leader in Internet safety education. i-SAFE is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and empower students, parents, seniors, and community members to safely and responsibly take control of their Internet experiences. i-SAFE provides knowledge that will enable them to recognize and avoid dangerous, destructive, or unlawful online behavior and to respond appropriately. This is accomplished through dynamic K through 12 curriculum and community-outreach programs to students, parents, law enforcement professionals, and community leaders. i-SAFE is the only Internet safety foundation to combine these elements. www.isafe.org

i-SAFE Inc. is recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization. i-SAFE Inc. is funded by the U.S. Congress through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice.

 i-SAFE Media Contact: Erica Carlson Public Relations Manager Phone: (619) 446-6538 E-Mail: Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=66B871863280836A  

SOURCE: i-SAFE America

Source: MARKET WIRE

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