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Recently there has been a lot of discussion about Google Images in our office, so we wanted to share just a few things with you that we hope you will share with your teachers.  These tips can help to keep everyone safe and help make using the internet at school a positive learning experience.

Google has a SafeSearch feature that works great with images.  SafeSearch is automatically applied if the student is using a Chromebook, but for other devices (desktop, laptop or iPad), the student will have to turn the safe search feature on.  While this will not deter the student who is intentionally looking for inappropriate images, it will help with those who stumble upon these images by mistake. 

Directions for turning on SafeSearch on a computer:
  1. Go to Google's image search: http://images.google.com (or just click images from the home screen)
  2. Once on the image search, type in something safe (like apples) just to get to the search results page. From there, you will see in the top right corner the option to turn on SafeSearch. It actually says Filter explicit results.  Choosing to filter actually turns on Safe Search.

Once you have chosen SafeSearch, you will see this: 

 Directions for turning on SafeSearch on an iPad:
  1. Go to Google, search for something, and you will see a little wrench in the top right corner of the search results page.  Tap it, and you will see SafeSearch in the dropdown menu.
  2. If you select SafeSearch, you will see there are 3 settings: Off, Moderate, and Strict. If you set it to Strict your iPad will have SafeSearch turned on - this setting should be remembered on the device.

Note: If you are in the Chrome app, logged into your Google account, and turn this feature on, the setting will be remembered.  For other browsers, this not the case.
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Friday, March 1, 2013

Friday's Google Tidbit: SafeSearch

Recently there has been a lot of discussion about Google Images in our office, so we wanted to share just a few things with you that we hope you will share with your teachers.  These tips can help to keep everyone safe and help make using the internet at school a positive learning experience.

Google has a SafeSearch feature that works great with images.  SafeSearch is automatically applied if the student is using a Chromebook, but for other devices (desktop, laptop or iPad), the student will have to turn the safe search feature on.  While this will not deter the student who is intentionally looking for inappropriate images, it will help with those who stumble upon these images by mistake. 

Directions for turning on SafeSearch on a computer:
  1. Go to Google's image search: http://images.google.com (or just click images from the home screen)
  2. Once on the image search, type in something safe (like apples) just to get to the search results page. From there, you will see in the top right corner the option to turn on SafeSearch. It actually says Filter explicit results.  Choosing to filter actually turns on Safe Search.

Once you have chosen SafeSearch, you will see this: 

 Directions for turning on SafeSearch on an iPad:
  1. Go to Google, search for something, and you will see a little wrench in the top right corner of the search results page.  Tap it, and you will see SafeSearch in the dropdown menu.
  2. If you select SafeSearch, you will see there are 3 settings: Off, Moderate, and Strict. If you set it to Strict your iPad will have SafeSearch turned on - this setting should be remembered on the device.

Note: If you are in the Chrome app, logged into your Google account, and turn this feature on, the setting will be remembered.  For other browsers, this not the case.
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