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Trend Micro “What’s Your Story” Winner “Where are you?” is really worth a look
“This is a line … and this line is mine!” starts the Grand Prize Winning video among many many entries for digital online safety. Winning teen creator Mark Eschelman and teen actor Tyler Joseph give us a powerful message of where the line is, where the spine is, and the pluses and minuses of being “on-line” or on [...]
Continue reading...New Resource on Suicide and Bullying from SPRC
21. April 2011
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) has published a new 8-page Issue Brief on Suicide and Bullying. As the SPRC website notes, this publication examines
Continue reading...The Pitfalls and Promises of Facebook, Social Media and Kids: Helpful info from Mindshift.kqed.org
19. April 2011
We understand and appreciate that many adults worry about young people’s use of Facebook and other social media, and may be at a loss to know what, if anything, they need to do in this regard. Should adults intervene? If so, how and to what degree?
Continue reading...The power of positive social norms: Harrison High School shows us the way!
7. April 2011
Check out this video, produced by students from Harrison High School in Georgia, which beautifully illustrates the power of positive social norms. As the Sources of Strength website notes, the school broadcasting program partnered with the school’s Sources of Strength students to “create a Lip Dub that had a message for all teens.” This engaging and powerful [...]
Continue reading...Teens can talk to a judge without being in court, at “AsktheJudge.info”
22. March 2011
Judge Tom Jacobs was a “Juvy” (Juvenile) judge for 23 years and seems to have seen …
Continue reading...White House Conference on Bullying Prevention – March 10, 2011
10. March 2011
Today (Thursday, March 10, 2011), the President convened a conference on bullying prevention at which some of nation’s leading experts and practitioners on bullying prevention spoke (Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., Susan M. Swearer, Ph.D., Rosalind Wiseman, Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D, and others). The conference is available for review for a limited time at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live, and/or check out the [...]
Continue reading...Acceptable Use Policies: Balancing Access and Choice
8. March 2011
If you are wanting to update your school’s Acceptable (Responsible) Use Policy, perhaps with a view to integrating new cloud-based and mobile technologies, then we suggest that you first read A “Responsible” Approach to School Usage Policies on Internet Safety
Continue reading...Want a 30 second clip about digital harassment to catch the attention of your students?
3. March 2011
Then check out this short but powerful clip entitled Tattoo from A Thin Line (see our earlier blogs on this website by clicking here and here). We think this is a great short piece to show to students to begin discussions about cyberbullying/digital harassment. Perhaps one of the first questions might be to ask them, ”In your opinion, [...]
Continue reading...Looking for useful resources on cyberbullying: Try Education.com
1. March 2011
Education.com, a website which “provides expert advice, features, columns, thousands of reference articles, and a community for parents of pre-school to high-school students,” has a very useful Special Edition section on cyberbullying (and also one on bullying). Why do we recommend this site?
Continue reading...What’s your Internet safety story? It could be worth $10,000
22. February 2011
Are you looking for some creative ways to get youth actively engaged and talking with adults and each other about Internet safety? A project which will interest and empower young people rather than disengage and disenfranchise them? Oh, and one that carries a $10,000 first prize and six $500 second prizes? Then take a look at the 2011 What’s [...]
Continue reading...Take action to stop digital abuse: MTV, Facebook, and Justin Bieber team up
17. February 2011
MTV, Facebook, and Justin Bieber have teamed up to help stop digital abuse, and they are asking you to help out! If you post an action on MTV’s A Thin Line (see our earlier blog about this cool website), you too can be eligible for the Grand Prize of a trip for two and backstage passes [...]
Continue reading...GRID: A new Internet safety resource from the Family Online Safety Institute
15. February 2011
We have reported before on the important work of the Family Online Safety Institute (“FOSI”) – see Cyberbullying Prevention, Cyberbullying Conferences and Events, and Cyberbullying: How can we be a part of the solution? - and now we are delighted to feature their latest very impressive resource which is designed ”for governments, industry, lawyers, academics, educationalists and all [...]
Continue reading...Safer Internet Day 2011: It’s more than a game, it’s your life
8. February 2011
Today is being marked as Safer Internet Day in “more than 70 countries, from Canada to South Korea and Russia to Kenya, including all 27 countries of the European Union.” As noted by Neelie Kroes, patron of Safer Internet Day, and European Digital Agenda Commissioner, “[f]or children and young people especially, [Safer Internet Day]is both [...]
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4. May 2011
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