Archive | July, 2010
Bullying Prevention Resources: Ronan’s Escape
This week’s video feature is a ”visually stunning short film set in the rural wheat belt of Western Australia.” The film provides a “candid insight into the life of Ronan … a 14 yr old boy who’s been bullied his whole life at school.” The film won the “Best Short Film” award at the prestigious 2010 Sedona International [...]
Continue reading...Online Safety and Digital Citizenship for the Younger Set: Hector’s World
27. July 2010
Following on from our blog yesterday about the need for creating a culture of respect and dignity both online and off, today we want to feature Hector’s World, a website that encourages this approach from an early age (see also our previous features under “Reviews“).
Continue reading...Social Maturity as a Measure of Success: It’s not cool to be mean … “Pass it On”
26. July 2010
This week we will be featuring more great online safety materials and resources, but we wanted to start the week on a different, yet connected, note: The need to move toward valuing social maturity/intelligence as an equally worthy measure of “success” as academic goals. We have written about this before (see for example our blogs on Adolescents [...]
Continue reading...“New Boy” Video Clip: The Tip of the Bullying Iceberg
23. July 2010
This week we are featuring a film about a “young African boy with a haunting back story who starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.” Let’s check it out …
Continue reading...Online Safety Prevention Resources: bNetS@avvy website
22. July 2010
Today’s online safety feature is the bNetS@avvy website which “provides up-to-date information about online trends and behavior, and offers practical cyber safety tools for use in the home and the classroom.” Their goal is to “help parents and educators guide children towards the safe and savvy use of social technology.” Let’s check them out …
Continue reading...Cyberbullying Prevention Resources: Cyberbullying Research Center website
21. July 2010
We’ve mentioned materials from this website in previous blogs (see “Right Now” Toolkit Resources, and Top Ten Fact Sheets), but it’s such a valuable resource that we wanted to include it “en masse” in this feature on cyberbullying prevention websites. What makes it such a valuable resource? Well, to start with …
Continue reading...Cyberbullying Prevention Resources:Bullying – No Way! website
19. July 2010
This week, we are going to feature WEBSITES which serve as a great resource for educators, parents, and students looking for information on ways to address and prevent cyberbullying. Our first feature is a very impressive website created by Australia’s educational communities which contains information that is relevant and helpful no matter where in the world you live.
Continue reading...The Living Internet: Get ready to be “spoofed”; youth as co-creators
16. July 2010
In reviewing clips for today’s “Friday’s Film Feature,” we became accutely aware that, as noted in the recent Youth Safety on a Living Internet, the “Internet, is, in effect, a ‘living thing,’” (p. 5), with its users, especially youth, being very much co-creators and co-interpreters of much of the content. What’s this got to do with the Friday film feature? [...]
Continue reading...Online Safety Resources: “Know it All” Materials by Childnet International
15. July 2010
Today’s feature on online safety resources is the “Know IT All” award-winning materials produced by Childnet International from the U.K. Let’s take a look at what they have to offer.
Continue reading...Cyberbullying Prevention & Digital Citizenship: The Ophelia Project’s CyberCool Curriculum
14. July 2010
Today’s feature in this week’s look at online safety and digital citizenship resources is the “CyberCool” curriculum put out by the Ophelia Project (authored by Erika Dauber, M.A., Learning, Design, & Technology, Stanford University). Let’s see what’s on offer with this curriculum …
Continue reading...Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum
13. July 2010
The second prevention “Toolkit” resource to be featured this week is Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum authored by Susan Limber, Robin Kowalski, and Patricia Agatston. There are two curricula: the first for Grades 3-5 and the second for Grades 6-12. Let’s take a look a closer look …
Continue reading...Online Safety Resources: iKeepSafe website and materials
12. July 2010
This week, we are going to be featuring a number of resources geared toward online safety and digital citizenship which can form part of a ”Toolkit” of materials for use by educators, parents, and young people. The first in our feature is the iKeepSafe organization, which aims to “give parents, educators, and policymakers the information and [...]
Continue reading...Hero in the Hallway: Empowering young people in bullying prevention efforts
9. July 2010
This week’s Friday video clip is a powerful piece about the prevalence of bullying in schools, the need to hear young people’s voices on this issue, and the importance of involving young people in solutions. The clip is just under 4 minutes long, but packs a punch. Check it out.
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- Experts on Cyberbullying: Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D.
- Useful Advice about How Effective Parents Communicate with a School about Bullying
- Internet Safety: Professor Garfield (the cartoon cat!) helps out
- Coming Soon: Interviews with Experts and Who's Who Profiles
- The Formspringme.com Controversy: swimming pools, faulty gas tanks and cigarettes
- Shaheen Shariff: Thank you for this insightful review. I appreciate...
- Judge Tom: After 23 years in juvenile court, I believe that t...
30. July 2010
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