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Activist app developers: Reachout.com’s winners

December 1, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

The 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 private sector, told Reachout … [Read more...] about Activist app developers: Reachout.com’s winners

Filed Under: apps, bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: app developers, bullying prevention, cyberbullying prevention, Don't Just Stand By contest, Inspire USA, reachout.com

Great contest for teen activist/app developers

March 15, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

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 to take action," says Reach Out's press … [Read more...] about Great contest for teen activist/app developers

Filed Under: apps, bullying, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: app developers, apps, bullying prevention, bystander, cyberbullying, education technology, Facebook app, reachout.com

How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

December 21, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

This is great, an early sign of the Internet industry's piece of OS 3.0: what the popular teen social site MyYearbook.com is doing for Reachout.com, a nonprofit support and suicide-prevention site for teens on the social Web (it now has a US base too, but since its start in Australia, that country "has seen a 56% reduction in youth suicide rates," the site says). Here's how Reach Out describes … [Read more...] about How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

Filed Under: Social Media, social networking Tagged With: ConnectSafely, helpline, moderators, multiplayer online games, myYearbook, Online Safety 3.0, reachout.com, social networking, suicide prevention, virtual worlds

Reachout.com: Substantive help site for teens

April 1, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

"We Can Help Us" is the welcoming (and welcome) message of a just-launched suicide-prevention campaign created by the US government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Inspire USA Foundation, and the Ad Council. It's great that there are press releases and radio and TV spots will hit the wires and airwaves, but even better is ReachOut.com, a welcoming … [Read more...] about Reachout.com: Substantive help site for teens

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, suicide Tagged With: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, reachout.com, SAMHSA, Suicide Prevention Lifeline

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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