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Tag: Online Safety

  • Internet safety – The Genie is out of the bottle

    I missed this the first time it went around, but Pogue makes a very good point about how we as concerned adults should be watching out for the other kids that our children may be interacting with rather than the predators that might lurk in the ether : As my own children approach middle school, my own…

  • Posting Safety

    This is an interesting post to have stumbled on (paper). After all the news about how social networking sites are dangerous in terms of sexual predators that may lurk within. Here is some of the first research to look at what the case truly might be from within the world of the user, not the…

  • Alberta’s action on bullying

    It’s great to see that the provincial government has started to take notice on the damage that kids do to each other through all manner of bullying. B-Free is the site that they have set up to front this program.

  • YouTube and Beat Bullying

    It’s really good to see  that there are more people starting to take notice of the  bullying issue. Now beatbullying.org and YouTube have teamed up and created this video to encourage kids to make their own statements on bullying. I hope this works, the low production quality of some of the clips that are part…

  • Quick tips for managing online persona

    C|Net has cribbed together a good collection of points. I think overall, you can sum everything up as follows – view everything that you have posted out there through the eyes of everyone else who would want to use it for good or bad. That being said, you can’t live in fear of what might…