by Lynette Owens | Nov 18, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Earlier this year, we ran a video contest called “What’s Your Story?” with the goal of engaging and educating young people on various topics related to their Internet safety. One of the winning videos called “Pull the Plug on Bullying” is now...
by Lynette Owens | Nov 8, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Today, our good friends at Connectsafely, together with the iKeepSafe Coalition, announced A Parents’ Guide to Facebook, a detailed resource that provides parents with step-by-step guidance on how to help their teens maintain their privacy on...
by Lynette Owens | Nov 3, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Just over a year ago, I had the good fortune to meet with the IT director of our local school district, a district which includes about 5, 000 students attending 5 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 1 high school. During the meeting, we...
by Lynette Owens | Oct 19, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens My daughter’s backpack always comes home filled with interesting things – art projects, homework assignments, half-eaten lunches. Two days ago, an unexpected letter was there. It notified us that the students at her elementary school would be...
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....
