Digital fluency involves more than the ability to successfully and responsibly use digital tools. It also requires the mastery of netiquette, or the etiquette of communicating with others online. Using proper netiquette can lead to more meaningful connections with others. Readers will learn basic practices for being polite, respectful, and courteous in their online interactions.

The Internet opens an ever-expanding world of information and experiences to its users. Young digital citizens must have courage in order to responsibly learn and connect with others online. They must be brave, whether they are standing up against cyberbullying or telling a trusted adult about an uncomfortable online experience. Finding the courage to speak up is essential to cultivate safe and healthy digital habits, which this book strongly supports. Your readers will be encouraged to talk openly about their Internet use.

Being smart on the Internet involves knowing where to find good information, thinking critically about websites, and understanding safe ways of sharing online. With straightforward explanations and instructions, this book helps readers become smart digital citizens who know how to recognize reliable sources and safe websites. Readers will learn to navigate the Internet, think carefully about the content they view and share, follow rules for healthy interactions, and reflect when they make mistakes. Photographs provide examples of important guidelines in action.

The Internet is an immensely powerful social platform that can inspire and unify, but it can also discourage and divide. This book empowers young Internet users to choose kindness and positivity as they participate in the digital world. It encourages readers to approach online interactions with the same values that guide their behavior offline. With simple explanations, helpful tips, and photographs that correlate to the text, this book presents a guide to everyday kindness online.

Good digital citizens know the importance of being safe and strong online. This book demonstrates how protecting your privacy and creating a positive digital footprint can help you build a strong identity. As an introduction to online security, it presents simple tips for creating and safeguarding personal accounts and passwords. Readers are invited to consider how actions could strengthen or weaken their online footprint. Young Internet users can flex their digital muscles by building and protecting a strong online identity.

Digital technology has changed the parenting territory dramatically in recent years. Suddenly we've been tasked with preparing kids to be safe, happy and successful, not just in the real world, but in the online world as well. Martine Oglethorpe is part of a new breed of parenting educator who nimbly stays abreast of technology changes while keeping one foot firmly grounded in the timeless ways that make families strong.Martine skilfully combines her professional expertise with the lived experience gained by guiding her own children down the pathway to being skilled, savvy digital citizens. In these pages lies the blueprint for parenting kids in the digital age. It shares how to be engaged in the digital lives of our children without being overbearing or burdensome; to know when to tread lightly as a parent and when care and caution need to be taken.

This up-to-date book covers all aspects of Internet etiquette, including email, discussion forums, online auctions, instant messaging and much more. It explains modern topics such as blogs and wikis, and how netiquette applies to them. Although this book is suitable for beginners, even experts should find plenty to make them think. At once prescriptive and pragmatic, this book tells you in plain language how everyone would behave in a perfect world, giving you the knowledge to enable you to decide how you wish to present yourself online.