Cyberbullying URLs

Cyber safety lessons: www.coolcybersfetylessons.wikispaces.com

Point Smart, ClickSafe - Report on CyberSafety

See 2009 Internet Safety Task Force report on CyberSafety, "PointSmart, ClickSafe". Task Force suggested ways to improve cybersafety for children:

• education before a child gets on the Internet
• control while the child is online, and
  
• having set procedures if problems arise.

A word-search of the 69-page document found 6 occurrences of the word "library' -- several members of the task force, for example.

Cyberbullying and Bullying sites

I saw these resources in the new Boy's Life magazine. Check them out.

• Stop Bullying Now (http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/index.asp?area=webisodescharacters): This is a federal government site from Health Resources and Services Administration.
  
• CyberBullying (http://www.cyberbullying.us): This is a site from two professors--one of criminal justice in Florida and the other of Political Science in Wisconsin.
  
• CyberBullying Fact Sheet-- Taking screenshots... (http://www.cyberbullying.us/making_cyberbullying_screenshots.pdf): This is a pdf document from the site above.
  

Education Tech Committee Suggested Project

There are 2 new things required in the 2010 tech plans for schools. One is Internet Safety. CTAP Region 4 has that pretty well covered with their poster, powerpoints, and other great stuff. http://www.ctap4.org/cybersafety/

THe other is Copyright. We could do a great service for California schools if we developed copyright lesson plans and continuum to support this. You can check out some of the resources I have links to at my copyright page for starters. www.georgepilling.com/copyright.

George Pilling
District Library Media Supervisor
Visalia Unified School District