The folks at ConnectSafely.org have taken a retro approach to teaching web safety with a series of videos featuring "The Webs" (Mr. Web, Mrs. Web, and Kate Web). The videos are perfect imitations of those old 1940s and 1950s instructional life-lesson videos that had titles like "What to Do on a Date," "Shy Guy," and "The Last Date" (a morbid little tome on driving safety). We've got a collection of these artifacts on a video called You Can't Get There From Here: Ephemeral Films 1946-1960 (very popular around here at certain times of the year).



I don't know how effective this approach is, but it's got to beat some of those stuffy stranger-danger lectures. The best part, imo, is that the videos come complete with that canned laughter you don't hear so much any more.

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