useful+Cyberbullying+site

http://www.digizen.org/cyberbullying/fullfilm.aspx

The above site was given to our schools technology teacher to raise awareness within our senior students. The movie is a little confronting but does highlight the seriousness of these technology tools! Cheryl

Hey Cheryl, I watched this video from the cyber bullying website the other night. It made me feel so ashamed of how we as a society allow people to act and agree that it was very confronting. With so many aspects of social education creeping into the curriculum we now teach it is essential that we bring this issue forward and work extremely hard to prevent the terrible shame and feelings of helplessness that the children who are bullied feel. Where have we gone so wrong to have people think that behaving in such a way is acceptable. I worry! Bronnie August 15th 6:01pm

Hi Cheryl and Bronnie, My husband and I lived in Manchester England for four and a half months whilst we were on our backpacking adventures. We worked there for that time and became amazed at the amount of crime that occurred there on a daily basis. I had previously lived in the USA for 18 months, however I lived in Utah which is full of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Needles to say between little old Tasmania and Utah, both Jim and I had lived a very sheltered life. I was not surprised as I sifted through many of these websites that a lot were UK-based sites as crime related to technology at the time we were living in England was very topical. It is scary to think that Australia is now facing this same problem. It is however wonderful that there are so many sites available for students, teachers and parents to become educated for their own safety against people who abuse such wonderful technology. The [|Kidsmart] website has a number of educational tools for students, teachers and parents. This could be used as tool to educate students in the classroom about safety using the internet. The website provides students with a scavenger hunt [|quiz]. Students can navigate their way around the site and fill in the answers to the quiz. I found [|Cyberquoll] to be great. It is Australian too. It is quite entertaining and I think students from grades 3-6 would really enjoy this site as a tool for educating themselves about the ‘pitfalls and triumphs’ of internet usage. This site of course is a little less confronting than the site Cheryl recommended for her senior studetns above.

Kristen August 18th 2pm