by admin | Mar 16, 2014 | Digital citizenship
What a powerful message and couldn’t ring more true! I know firsthand of what type of people like to use the keyboard to send out cyber-bullets of hurtful and lethal keystrokes that can forever change the life of people of all ages. No one is immune to online...
by admin | Mar 15, 2014 | Cyberbullying
Students and others have taken to Twitter to share their thoughts, feelings, activities, and even opinions about their teachers. With the limit of 140 characters per Tweet, you have options to make those keystrokes build someone up — or break them down. Just a...
by admin | Mar 13, 2014 | cyberbullying prevention
“When you’re given a positive label, you’re afraid of losing it, and when you’re hit with a negative label, you’re afraid of deserving it.” – Carol Dweck, Stanford University psychologist It goes back to the old saying about sticks and stones…. but words will...
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | Google
Whose side is Google on? Digital Citizen’s Alliance (DCA) recently released an extremely detailed and telling report on March 10th, 2014. Have you ever wondered how a company that gives away so many free services can make billions of dollars? DCA does a really...
by admin | Mar 9, 2014 | Cyberbullying
Recently my Huffington Post articles shared a phenomenal campaign that is spreading through California schools and hopefully will make it across the country. #iCANHELP Delete Negativity on Social Media was created after someone maliciously decided to build a fake...
by admin | Mar 7, 2014 | Parenting Blogs
Parents, how often do you worry about your teenager when they hop in their car to head out to the movies or the mall? Are they distracted while driving? Are they texting while driving? AT&T has just the app for you to help curb the urge to text and drive. AT&T...
by admin | Mar 6, 2014 | Online reputation
Entitlement issue generation. That is what it seems we are dealing with today. I am confident it isn’t every teenager, however I speak with many parents and hear a familiar story of a child that is raised with the gifts of their parents and sometimes...
by admin | Mar 4, 2014 | Bullying prevention
Children and teens talking and texting on their smartphones is a very common sight on any city street or in any shopping mall. Children get their hands on mobile devices at a very early age; most are online by the time they are in the third grade. While technology can...
by admin | Mar 2, 2014 | Cyberbullying
If you are from my generation Another Brick in the Wall brings back memories of one of the best classic rock songs by Pink Floyd. Today we can use it as an analogy. We have our Facebook wall (or timeline), we have streams on Twitter and Instagram and other social...
by admin | Feb 27, 2014 | Parenting Teens
It’s a fact, more people communicate through technology and I would venture to say, prefer the digital language over face-to-face communication! However there is one time that tech devices need to be STACKED and it is time to CHAT face-face. It’s called...
