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Sesame Street Launches Anti-Bullying Program with “The Good Bird’s Club”
Sesame Street does it again with brilliance! Big Bird is invited to join the “Good Birds Club” and is very excited. However, a pigeon with an attitude
Continue reading...Facebook, YouTube, Texting: Rules of the Road for Kids
3. September 2011
Here is a short video clip from Common Sense Media to help young people make smarter decisions online. The clip is only 3.21 minutes long, and features a group of young people helping other young people stay safe online. They provide 10 simple rules to “keep us safe and smart when we are online or using our cell phones.” The video [...]
Continue reading...Stopping digital abuse: MTV’s new resource for grown ups
18. August 2011
We have featured MTV’s A Thin Line campaign before on this blog (see here). Now MTV has produced a new resource to help grown ups (parents and educators) use A Thin Line to “open up a conversation on digital abuse, test awareness, and help encourage action on the issue at home or in school.” Let’s [...]
Continue reading...Face 2 Face: A book by young people to help young people handle online/offline bullying and peer abuse
30. July 2011
Here’s a new resource we really like. Face 2 Face: A book created by young people (Caroline Ster, author, and Emily Jones, illustrator) to help other young people learn how to handle bullying, cyberbullying, and peer abuse in a proactive, positive manner. With expert adult guidance (including Alison Trachtman Hill, MPA, and Lynn Dubenko, Ph.D.) and contributions, these two young [...]
Continue reading...Your high school students can be great digital citizens: Commonsense Media provides the tools
13. July 2011
We have previously lauded the terrific online safety/digital citizenship resources provided by Commonsense Media, and we are going to do it again! Commonsense Media has just brought out a FREE, five-part curriculum for high school students to complement the materials already available for elementary and middle school students.
Continue reading...Define the Line website: Clarifying the blurred lines between cyberbullying and socially responsible digital citizenship
5. July 2011
Dr. Shaheen Shariff and her team at McGill University have launched a critical new website on cyberbullying called ”Define the Line“ which has already received wide press by Stanford University College of Law, YouTube and Twitter. The site does not attempt to provide any ”quick fixes” for cyberbullying (as we know there aren’t any), but instead
Continue reading...Trend Micro “What’s Your Story” Winner “Where are you?” is really worth a look
4. May 2011
“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...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...White House & HHS Launch Stopbullying.gov
29. March 2011
In conjunction with the recent White House summit on bullying, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services launched an excellent resource site called www.stopbullying.gov . The site is very well organized and navigable, with an attractive color scheme and quick link buttons for kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and community members — following on the President’s [...]
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...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...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...No Name Calling Week – January 24-28, 2011
25. January 2011
“No Name Calling Week,” created by GLSEN and Simon & Schuster, is now in its 6th year and gaining momentum. Barnes & Noble, and over 40 national partners, including a generous grant from Cisco Systems, made this year’s week possible. As the website notes, No Name-Calling Week was inspired by a young adult novel entitled “The [...]
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- Useful Advice about How Effective Parents Communicate with a School about Bullying
- Internet Safety: Professor Garfield (the cartoon cat!) helps out
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15. October 2011
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