NetFamilyNews.orgThe winning app developers of Reachout.com’s “Don’t Just Stand By” cyberbullying prevention contest not only received prize money but also serious professional mentoring: Timothy Mullican, 15, in Alabama, who has been writing code since he was in the 6th grade. The first-place winner, who aspires to being an information security specialist for government or the [...]
This article marking an important beginning was originally published March 2, 2012, then my service’s server crashed with no backup(!). So I’m reposting this 9/8/12. Surrounded by some of the best thinkers and researchers in the bullying prevention, social media, and youth empowerment fields, Wednesday (2/29) I got to watch “Born This Way” become “Move [...]
Spread the word to young app developers and code writers at your house or school: ReachOut.com has just announced its national “Don’t Just Stand By” Facebook App Developer Competition. Launched at the SxSW conference, the competition “calls on teens 13-17 to create a Facebook app that will help inform and empower potential bystanders of cyberbullying [...]
“How do we learn from the past?” asks the narrator of the promotional video for “Class Actions,” a 30-min. PBS documentary about three US towns that, with the help of young activists *have* learned from the past and not let hate take over again. “In Oxford, Miss., student leaders find the strength to unify their [...]
“Citizenship is relationship … digital citizenship is relationship amplified,” said Gary McDaniel, a clinical social worker for Morgan County School District in West Virginia, on a panel at the International Bullying Prevention Association’s annual conference in New Orleans this week. I had the honor of kicking off this keynote panel, offering a little background on [...]
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