Know IT All for Parents

About Know IT All

This section is all about the organisations involved in creating this guide to the internet:

About this website

This CD-ROM has been developed by the children’s internet charity Childnet International and funded by the Department for Education and Skills (now DCSF). Know IT All for parents was based on Know IT All for pupils which was also developed by Childnet with funding from MSN UK, and distributed to all secondary schools in the UK in 2005 with support from Microsoft. For more information see www.childnet.com/kia.

About Childnet International

Childnet International is a non-profit organisation (charity no 1080173) with the mission to work in partnership with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children to use. Childnet not only encourages the positive use of technology through giving children awards, but also seeks to respond to the possible dangers to children while using the internet. Childnet runs schools awareness programmes and produces a range of information for parents/teachers and children from leaflets to posters as well as DVDs. These can be ordered directly from our website at www.childnet.com/order/order.aspx.

Tell us what you think

If you would like to tell us what you think about Know IT All for Parents or have ideas on how we can improve this guide please be in touch with Childnet through our website www.childnet.com/kia.

Acknowledgments

Childnet International would like to thank the following organisations and individuals for their support in producing Know IT All for Parents:

Becta for funding the updating and duplication of this resource in 2008
The Department for Children, Schools and Families for funding the production and distribution of this guide
The young people from Childnet's Networkers' Panel, who presented the young people’s section on this CD with help from Ben and Tejeri
Rob Wright, who worked with the young people in creating their scripts
All the companies featured here who gave permission for us to reference their sites and services
Sumit Bose, the main presenter on this CD-ROM
Sasha Herriman for presenting in the ‘How Can I Help My Children Stay Safe?’ section
Bill Thompson, who contributed to the writing and editing of this guide
Tim Mungeam, who contributed to the writing and editing of this guide
Ruth Hammond from Becta, who advised on the writing of the teachers' guide.
David Banes from AbilityNet for advice on the ‘How to Use this Guide’ section
Deafax for advice on the BSL section
Remark! for advice on filming the BSL section
IFPI for permission to link to the Digital File Check software
PhonepayPlus for permission to embed their fact sheet and for the use of the PHONEbrain game
MSN for permission to use the Websafecrackerz game
BBC for permission to use the Dongle cartoon
Orange mobile company for permission to embed their guide for parents
Richard Hill, previous Childnet award-winner, for permission to include the Froguts animation. See www.froguts.com for the full experience!
Northern Ireland eGovernment Unit for permission to use content from the 'Internet Made Easy' CD-RO
Card Watch website, www.cardwatch.org.uk, which is run by APACS, the UK Payments Association, for permission to use their content in the shopping advice section
Contrapositive, www.contrapositive.tv, for the design and construction of this resource

Finally, all the Childnet staff who worked so hard to write and oversee the creation of this resource