by Lynette Owens | Oct 7, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Ambient broadcasting. This was a phrase used to describe how ‘millenials’ – those born after 1980 – view sharing personal information online in a recent report by the Pew Center. I thought it a very accurate description of what all of us, young...
by Lynette Owens | Oct 6, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens It might not be news for teens or even people who closely follow demographic shifts in Internet traffic for a living, but young people are increasingly spending more time on social networking sites that most parents or teachers would not recognize....
by Lynette Owens | Sep 9, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Over the past year, Internet safety for kids seems to have risen moderately in importance among the general public. It is harder for me now than a year ago to meet a parent or teacher that doesn’t have a story to tell about their school, where...
by Lynette Owens | Jun 2, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens After 6 weeks of watching the entries come in, and a week of determining the finalists and winners, we have finally announced the winners of the “What’s Your Story?” video contest. When we began planning the contest, we hoped to use a medium that...
by Lynette Owens | May 11, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
by Lynette T. Owens On April 26, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take on the case of Schwarzenegger vs. the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA). The outcome of this hearing has great bearing on how age ratings will be enforced for video games that are...