Marian Merritt has a “Recap of This Year’s Family Online Safety Institute Annual Conference”
Not thinking of kids as victims. This is new thinking indeed for the Internet safety world. We know that for children who are victimized by online predators, often these are the same kids displaying risk factors for predation in the real world. Larry Magid of ConnectSafely has written a compelling story covering the FOSI conference and discussing this “watershed” moment.
Mary Heston on Wired Moms take us “Behind the Scenes at the Wired Moms Summit at Microsoft”
This last Friday Wired Moms went offline for the first time. We held our inaugural Wired Moms Summit at Microsoft. There were articles in the paper, an interview or two on TV and we have the video tape for everyone to watch once we get that back from the AV guys.
iKeepSafe gives “Five Suggestions on how to be Confident and Competent with Online Photo Sharing”
When it comes to building an online reputation for ourselves or our children, we need to “learn how to swim,” or, in other words, we need to learn to be confident and competent online. We have the following five suggestions for confident and competent photo sharing
Anne Collier writes on NetFamilyNews about “Media sharing’s upside, downside & advice on what to do about it”
Why do people share innermost thoughts, unretouched photos, and rants and what they ate for lunch in texts, photos, and blogs? And why is this not just a narcissistic passing fad like streaking or something, a baby boomer, someone who grew up with mass media, might ask?
Sameer Hinduja at Cyberbullying Research describes “Cyber-Mentors – an online anti-bullying support system of youth for youth”
I really liked this article on “Cyber-Mentors”, a relatively new program from BeatBullying (based in the UK) that is gaining traction. Justin and I believe strongly in the power of older students and youth to provide guidance and advice to younger students as it relates to peer conflict (especially the online variant).
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