www.GotVoice.com
Thanks to GotVoice you can now have voicemails from either your home or cell phone sent to your email in a .wav file. That means you can listen to all your messages without calling your phone! Just log on to GotVoice.com, put in your kind of phone (cell or landline); your service provider; your phone number, pin, and which email to send the voicemails to. You can set it up to check your voicemail daily, on weekends, or just once. What I love (besides the fact that it’s free, and that I don’t have to waste time or money calling my voicemail while overseas) is the simple fact that if someone leaves me a special message I want to keep forever, I can easily download it to my computer.

www.GetHuman.com
If you’re like me, you probably go batty when you call an airline for a reservation and the automated phone system makes you wait forever just to find out which numbers to press to get in touch with a human. Thankfully Paul English, a co-founder of Kayak.com, has created a website that lists which buttons to press so you don’t have to waste time listening to annoying automation. There are over 500 categories, including credit cards, finance, government, hardware, insurance, internet, mobile, pharmaceuticals, retail shipping, software, stores, and of course travel.
AirportParkingReservations.com
You can reserve a parking spot in advance at practically any U.S. Airport to guarantee yourself a parking space at the airport– and avoid worrying that the garage may be full.

www.WhatPlug.info
This is a helpful website for international travelers. When you first log on it will identify what country you’re from (if you log on from home). The next page lists every country by region (Europe, Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania). Click your destination country, and learn the type of plug, socket, voltage and hertz that’s used there. Not only can you see what type of adapter to bring, but you’ll know if it’s okay to plug equipment into the wall without a transformer (if the voltage is different, you can’t).

www.MenuPages.com
Has over 6,000 Manhattan menus online. That’s right: They’ve collected virtually every menu in New York, from the swankiest places like Le Cirque 2000 (Midtown East) to the dive pizza joints like Don Filippo’s (the best pizza on the Upper East Side). You can search easily by neighborhood, or by typing in your favorite restaurant or type of food. They also offer thousands of menus for Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington D.C. restaurants.

www.PassportSupport.com
This website brings up an excellent point. For years travel experts (including me) have been urging travelers to photocopy all important documents, such as credit cards (front and back), driver’s license, travelers checks and passports, and to keep one copy separate from the originals and another with a loved one or friend back home. That way, in case of loss or theft they can quickly access phone numbers to cancel or get duplicates. I still do that but since the invention of scanners and web-based email I have scanned all of my important documents, and kept them on a web- based email account I rarely use (these accounts are free). That way I have another option. If you don’t feel that a web-based email account is safe, you can now store up to 20 MB (plenty of space) for $12 per year on this Australian site which was developed specifically to store digital photos of your passport, visas, airline tickets, driver’s license, travelers checks and other travel documents.

www.AvoidDelays.com
Travelers can arm themselves with historical data from the past year of airline delays. Therefore, airplane passengers can get a good idea of which flights, airports and times to avoid. (Air traffic activity follows cyclical patterns, so comparisons with the same month last year are often better predictors of performance than using last month’s data). Click on their map to see a live radar of planes currently over the U.S. – it’s mind boggling how many there actually are. A Johnny Jet Tip: The best way to avoid delays is to take the first flight of the day. AvoidDelays.com proves that. It also shows visitors which flights are the most delayed, and gives real-time information on delays.

www.FlightAware.com/live
See live airport radar of LAX and other airports throughout the country. And track any flight.

www.XE.com
Currency Converter. Find out how much your US/CAD Dollars equals in local currency and vice versa.

www.TimeAndDate.com
Their world clock lists current local times around the world.

1 - The Internet can be as dangerous as the real world.
- Stranger danger, Child abduction, Violence and emotional trauma from Cyber-Bullying, Violence from video games, Moral, ethical and social degradation, Age Inappropriate material… etc
- General Rule: Any safety rule in effect in the real world, should be in effect in cyber-space.

2 - Parents must work to educate their children with strong moral and ethical decision making abilities.
- Kids are and will continue to be on the internet alone.
- No matter how hard we try, children will be alone on the Internet and must make the first decisions about what they are seeing or experiencing.

3 - MOST IMPORTANT TIP: Parents must work to maintain open, trusting communication with their children in order to assure that they are in the loop when the child is confronted with a question, problem, or issue.
- The most devastating tragedies to come from the internet could have been stopped before they happened.
- The parents would be leaving the child’s development up to the child’s peers, the Internet itself, or any other person if.

Nice to Know TIPS

1 - Don’t assume that people are who they say they are. Everyone is a stranger on the Internet.
2 - Never give personal information to people over the Internet. Pictures, personal problems, Home or school locations etc.
3 - Keep the family computer in a central location in the house so activities can be monitored.

RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
www.internet101.ca
www.cyberwise.ca

PRODUCTS SHOWN
KIT101 - An Educator’s guide to Internet Safety
Produced by the Government of Canada