Internet+Safety

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=**Safe Digital Social Networking (DSN) -or- Proactive Approaches to Address Cyberbullying and Digital Social Networking**= Generally adults help young people learn to drive safely before giving them car keys and turning them loose on the streets of the world. Young people also need guidance and adult assistance to learn how to safely navigate the virtual environments of the 21st Century. Schools must be proactive, rather than merely defensive, in helping students acquire the skills of digital citizenship needed today and in the future. Simply banning read/write web tools on school networks is an inadequate response: Educators must strive to learn alongside students and parents how these technologies can be safely and powerfully used to communicate and collaborate. Video clips related to this topic are linked [|on my "Videos for Professional Development page"] under the heading "Cyberbullying Prevention, Internet Safety, Safe DSN."

**Related Articles and Links**

 * 1) [|Students Competing For Slots At Elite Colleges Resorting To "Facebook Sabotage"] (23 Oct 2008)
 * 2) [|Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing] (NY Times, 19 Nov 2008)
 * 3) [|www.allofme.com] (creates a timeline of your online digital footprint)
 * 4) [|Survey of Oklahoma Schools Shows One in Three Students Involved in Bullying](8 Oct 2008 - based on 2005 survey data not including cyberbullying)
 * 5) [|Study Debunks Web Predator Myths] (6 March 2008)
 * 6) [|"Online 'Predators' and Their Victims: Myths, Realities and Implications for Prevention"] (Feb-Mar 2008 - PDF)
 * 7) [|School Confiscates Cell Phones After Nude Photos of Junior High Girls Circulate] (21 May 2008 - Galveston County, Texas)
 * 8) [|PBS Frontline Special "Growing Up Online"] (January 2008 - entire documentary is viewable online)
 * 9) [|96 percent of teens use social-networking tools: Survey reveals schools have a huge opportunity to harness technology for instruction] (15 Aug 2007)
 * 10) [|No longer the MySpace of your youth] (Oct 2006)
 * 11) [|We Are the Web] (Wired Article August 2005)
 * 12) [|Dan Pink] (author of "A Whole New Mind")
 * 13) [|A Proposal for Banning Pencils] (PDF) by Doug Johnson
 * 14) [|Online Social Lives of Teens] - MP3 podcast from NPR with Amanda Lenhart (PEW Internet senior researcher and Fred Stutzman (Univ of North Carolina Grad student, founder of ClaimID.com)
 * 15) [|Social networking stats]
 * 16) 57% of teenagers create content for the Internet ( Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden - [|'Teen Content Creators and Consumers,'] Nov 2005 report from the PEW Internet & American Life Project).

**Web Environments and Tools**

 * [|Think.com] - School-based DSN environment, "walled-garden"
 * [|Imbee.com] - For parents and kids, teachers and students, "walled-garden"
 * [|Moodle.org] - Open source course management software, can be installed for closed / "walled-garden" use, public use, or variants in-between
 * Others: [|Webkinz], [|Club Penguin], [|Whyville], [|Panwapa], [|Beanie Babies], [|BuildABear], [|WoogiWorld], and [|Cybersmartz]. Refer to Bob Sprankle, Maria Knee and Kevin Jarrett's discussion of "tween" social networking environments like these [|on Bit by Bit.]

**Recommendations**

 * [|My Internet Safety workshop for parents and educators]
 * [|OnGuard Online DSN advice for parents]

**Resources**

 * Digital Dialog: Encouraging communication on safe, appropriate and fun uses of digital technologies!
 * [|My social bookmarks on digital social networking] (DSN)
 * [|My blog posts on social networking]
 * [|My social bookmarks on Internet Safety]
 * [|PBWiki Educator's Wikipage on Protecting Students Online]
 * [|PEW Internet Research archive on 'Online Activities and Pursuits']
 * [|Women of Web 2.0]
 * [|Cheryl Oakes' website]

**Oklahoma Safe and Healthy Schools Conference - 10 Nov 2008 ("Internet Safety, Social Networking and the Oklahoma School Security Act")**

 * [|Presentation slides as a PDF] (16.7 MB)

**Oklahoma [|EncyloMedia] Conference - 30 Aug 2007**

 * An audio podcast of this session will be posted here soon
 * [|Presentation slides are available as a PDF file]

**Operation Aware, Tulsa, OK - 17 Aug 2007**

 * Full day workshop, August 2007
 * [|Podcast180: Conversations about Digital Social Networking and Internet Safety]
 * [|Full audio recordings from this workshop are available]

**ESC01 South Padre May 2007**

 * [|Presentation slides] (PDF)
 * [|Presentation slides] (PPT)

**KSDE April 2007 Presentations**

 * [|Podcast of this presentation] (recorded audio)
 * [|Presentation Slides] (PDF)
 * [|Full day workshop on Safe DSN from 25 April 2007]
 * Headlines Your School Doesn't Want
 * [|Teen Gangs Find Voice On Web] (1 June 2006)
 * [|Principal sues students, parents over MySpace page] (11 October 2006)
 * [|Hermitage principal sues over MySpace parody]
 * [|Court: MySpace postings are free speech] (11 April 2007)
 * [|Pupils humiliate teachers on the net] (27 April 2007)
 * [|Teachers in websites closure call] (1 August 2007)

**COSN March 2007 Preso**

 * Draft Presentation saved as an enhanced podcast ([|download from my .Mac Public iDisk])
 * [|Slides with notes]
 * Slides: [|PDF] or [|PPT]
 * [|How to Talk to Young People about Socializing Safely Online]: Tips for Educators or Parents from the National Cyber Security Alliance
 * [|Other links for March 2007 COSN Preso]
 * [|A Safe and Engaging Digital Destination for Kids: Imbee.com!] - an audio podcast
 * [|Safe Digital Social Networking: Spotlight Presentation at the Midwest Technology Institute in July 2006] - A web video
 * [|Safe Digital Social Networking] - Audio podcast version of July 2006 MACE MTI presentation
 * [|Think.com and Digital Social Networking] - an audio podcast

Watch Vanessa Van Petten describe the reasons she thinks teens engage in social networking in [|the YouTube video: “For Parents: Why do Teens Use Social Networking Sites?”]