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....
