Darren,
I am refining a very similar presentation myself.
One of the things I ran into (using my teenage foster kids as research subjects) is web surfing on cell phones. they wanted MSN on the phone and you have to enable web surfing for that on some phones (virgin mobile). This became the new gateway to porn. I guess when your 16 a 2" image on your phone is better then nothing.
Also watch out for google video search and their safe-search feature.
And lastly, openDNS. It's free. It's good, but it's not perfect. They use the St. Bernard data for porn/adult which you find in the iPrism series of web filters for big $.
Oh... and NetGear is now embedding OpenDNS in many of their wireless-N routers.

Let me know how you make out.

I am living Id Theft first hand not on my credit ,although its on my accounts and forged digital signitures.I am fed up, the people that is active in this crime make me sick.I feel betrayed and my emotions are on the verge of hostile and full of non-sence no sence in non-sence.I got close to these people and the last days in the residence was hell.I was amoung strangers for 1 1/2 yrs my land lord and room mates.People be careful out there.This is a touch of what can happen while developing new products and the sharks that can attack with out notice.I excaped with my life and most important my brains that will bring this crime ring down.No matter how long it takes.With Gods help.

I've seen talks like this focus in on monitoring and parent controls.

At a point these stop working and it's younger than most people think. The average age a kid has their first sexual experience at is scary young, like 12. KIds often know more about computers than their parents and many will find ways to circumvent controls. I'm not against monitoring but kids need to be taught how to be smart out there.

For one, kids who get into porn or other bad stuff are not living as Christians. Instead of getting on the bad behavior, what's going on with their relationship with Christ and the life that stems from that? Remember, about 70% of kids walk away from the church when they graduate high school. Over half of those when polled later no longer consider themselves Christians.

Their behavior online is tracked. I know people who didn't get hired for jobs because, while they were in school, they got drunk and partied. Those pictures ended up online and their potential employer found them years later.

A big thing to drive home is lifestyle.

Another area is activity. There are a lot of predators out there. Kids have a much higher tendency, when studied, to share a lot of detail with people they don't know. They are very open with their lives. Doing this leaves you open. Kids are, also, much less likely to have real friends than adults. So, part of this sharing problem is that they don't have people close to them to share with. So, it has to be more than teaching. Again, it's a lifestyle thing.

Just some thoughts. Maybe a series is better than a class on this stuff. It's becoming such a big topic.

Very valid points Matt. Thanks for your input.

The kids I work with are foster kids, most of which despise church and churchy people. So the network activity I track at home is to help detect activity and promote discussion about appropriate choices and the impact that porn (for example) can have on healthy marriages and relationships down the road.

When I teach parents, I advise monitoring for awareness and blocking for safety from accidental surfing.
The most powerful part of parenting teens and the internet is the relationship between parent and teen.

One parent I interviewed when I started this project used a very open trust relationships. MSN was to have logging enabled and the parents had carte blanche access to those logs. If they were missing then permissions were suspended. If things were inappropriate there was a family discussion. This worked very successfully for this family, but again they were a strong faith family with an "abnormally" healthy family relationship and well manored teens.

My sessions are focused around educating parents about what teens are doing online so they feel comfortable parenting their teens. You'd be surprised how many parents fear facebook and myspace. I try to educate parents about the basics, but most importantly I try to encourage teens to teach their parents. In hopes of building a trust relationship that allows for good family dynamics and better trust relationships.

At least thats my hopes. I wont really know how effective I've been for a few years. But God willing, at least I will have help parents understand their teens a little more.

I really appreciate the discussion on this topic (and that the scope has been widened). The talk I will giving comes at the end of a 12-week parent/teen class entitled Reaching the Heart of Your Teen. Both parents and our teens are attending the classes. We are 6 weeks in and so far it has been extremely fruitful.

Peter, you are correct in that most parents fear Facebook and anything Internet. I hope to this "social Internet" thing so that they can at least know the basics.

I am constantly asked about Internet security issues (viruses, filtering, etc) and this presentation will be the beginning of my finally writing down my answers. I was hoping that someone has done a similar work that I may co-op.

Blessings,

Darren

I'm one of the current web developers over at http://www.urbanministry.org, and my coworker has given several talks on Online Safety.

Take a look at these (free) resources:
http://www.safefamilies.org/safetychecklist.php
http://www.safefamilies.org/manual.doc

Also, search for "online safety" from our Google Search on www.urbanministry.org, and you'll get a plethora of resources.

Hope this helps,
David