lol....OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying

By Matt Ivester

The ease with which digital content can be shared online, in addition to its many benefits, has created a host of problems for today’s high school and college students. All too often, students are uploading, updating, posting and publishing without giving a second thought to who might see their content or how it might be perceived.

lol…OMG! provides a cautionary look at the many ways that today’s students are experiencing the unanticipated negative consequences of their digital decisions – from lost job opportunities and denied college and graduate school admissions to full-blown national scandals.

It also examines how technology is allowing students to bully one another in new and disturbing ways, and why students are often crueler online than in person. By using real-life case studies and offering actionable strategies and best practices, this book empowers students to clean up and maintain a positive online presence, and to become responsible digital citizens.

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Cybertraps for the Young

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By Frederick S. Lane

We teach knife and appliance safety in home economics; we teach gun safety as a prerequisite for a hunting license; auto safety in driver’s education; and the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies in sex ed. The Internet’s potential for misuse, whether through a computer or a mobile phone, is at least as profound as a chef’s knife, a Camaro, or a .22, but our efforts to educate children about Internet safety are far more sporadic and less thorough.

Approaching the risks for children on the Internet in a thought-provoking and intellectual manner, this study skillfully integrates contemporary news reports and disturbing legal cases to show how Facebook and other ready-made forums for information exchange are breaking down boundaries of privacy and facilitating a growing number of criminal convictions for cyberbullying, child pornography, hacking, and copyright infringement.

Also included is a discussion of how the widespread use of camera phones, mobile tablets, and social media sites has given rise to a new and dangerous practice among teens: sexting. This reference provides parents with an authoritative lesson in cyberethics and practical instructions for instituting household internet policies, as well as school officials and communities with lessons on how to educate children about the responsible use of emerging mobile technologies.

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Yoursphere - Get Inspired: Where Kids Create, Connect, Share...

Most importantly - safety and privacy comes first!

Meet Yoursphere
 
Yoursphere.com offers a vibrant, online, interactive, experience for kids and teens. Member’s safety and privacy come first through the application of common sense safeguards. The site devotes a hyper-focus towards supporting the positive interests, talents and aspirations of its members.

The site is free and is exclusively for children and young people through age 18. Yoursphere offers members a unique online community experience that is rewards-based, content appropriate, age-relevant, and socially conscious.

Yoursphere leads the global social media industry in online safety through our unparalleled common sense approach. We verify identities, require parental consent, perform a predator check, and use both technology and human oversight to monitor site activity. Because of these standards, Yoursphere is the sole youth-only online community approved by the Privacy Vaults Online Safe Harbor of the Federal Trade Commission.
Parents are empowered and educated with tools and information to help create a safety-first experience for their children online through Mary Kay’s Internet and Social Networking Safety Blog: Yoursphere for Parents.

Sue Scheff: National Cyber Safety Awareness Month

October is National Cyber Safety Awareness Month.



This is a great time to put together a list of great websites and resources to help you become an educated parent as well as helping your kids and teens to surf safely.



Over the past few months, I have written articles on Cyber Safety and how you can protect yourself and your family.



In August I released my recent book, Google Bomb! The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict Changed the Way We Use the Internet, which has received high praises and fantastic reviews.
Here is a small sample of some excellent articles, websites and services to help you be an educated parent. An educated parent leads to a safer child/teen online. Isn’t your child worth it? Take the time to learn more.



Articles for your review:



Internet image: Tips to maintain your virtual profile and resume


Do you know what Google is saying about you?


What is a Google Bomb?


Social Web Tips for TeensSocial Web Tips for Parents


Parenting Teens and cell phone tips


Teen Internet Addiction


Internet Safety and Guidance Counselors


Internet Safety and Internet Predators



Websites to review:



iKeepSafe.org
Love Our Children USA
Cyber Patrol iLookBothWays
Web Wise Kids
Cati Cares
Connect Safely
Mothers Against Predators
YourSphere



Services and books promoting Online Safety



ReputationDefender/MyChild


PG KeyGoogle Bomb Book – by John W. Dozier Jr. and Sue Scheff


Look Both Ways – by Linda Criddle


Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost – by Christopher Burgess and Richard Power


Cyber Safety Book – by Ken Knapton



As an author and Parent Advocate, I always encourage parents to put aside time to know what your kids/teens are doing in cyberspace. Teach them about the importance of what they post today, may haunt them tomorrow.

Also on Examiner.com

For more info: National Cyber Safety Awareness website.

Sue Scheff: Cyber Safety Book - Maintaining Morality in a Digital World

By Ken Knapton

Emails, blogging, facebook, texting,... technology is great except when it puts your family in danger. With so many new outlets to tempt today s children and teens, you need to teach your loved ones know-how to use technology safely and effectively. Cyber Safety is a modern resource for high tech families.

Ken Knapton draws on a career in the computer industry to teach you how to: avoid cyber bullies and identity thieves interpret television and video game ratings keep yourself far away from the poisonous effects of pornography and much more With up-to-date research and entertaining anecdotes alongside instruction from our modern prophets, this book is an essential item for any family with a TV, computer, or cell phone. Cyber Safety will keep your family safe in the dangerous online world.

I was honored to review this book and found it very "user friendly" and offers excellent advice, tips and resources for parents keeping their children safe in cyberspace.

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Follow Ken Knapton on Twitter at @CyberSafetyBook and @KenKnapton

Sue Scheff: Totally WIRED What Your Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online

TOTALLY WIRED: What your teens and tweens are really doing online.

By Anastasia Goodstein

"Many of us remember watching the space-age cartoon The Jet-sons and collectively dreaming about what the future would look like..." Read more: http://www.amazon.com/Totally-Wired-Tweens-Really-Online/dp/B001F0RA0M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244375787&sr=8-1#reader