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Steve Dembo

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Who am I?

Michael Hanscom

Heather B Armstrong

Jessica Cutler

Daniel P. Finney

Steve Olafson

Lain Murray

Penny Cholmondeley

Matthew Brown

Troutgirl

Joe (Waterstone)

Vibor Kalogiera

Jeremy Wright

Amy Norah Burch

Rob Smith

Rachel Mosteller

Peter Whitney

David Higham

Paul Andrew Juliano

Veronica

Gregg Easterbrook

Kelly Kreth“Silver Tree”

Richard Eid

Lance Salyers

Nadine Haobosh

Joe GordonAngelo VillagomezJoyce Park

QueenOfSky

Mark Jen

T. Hayden Barnes

Cameron WalkerChris Avenir

• 28% of children 12-17 have created their own blog

• 44% of online teens share their own creations online (artwork, videos, photos)

• 59% of online teens have created content for the internet

Pew Internet & American Life Project survey of teens and parentsOctober – December 2007

What has changed?

Just the facts

Assume everyone is going to see everything.

– Very little on the internet is truly private– An alias provides only minimal protection

• 44% of teens only use one screen nameSource: Pew Internet & American Life Project Teens and Parents Survey

– Deleted does not necessarily mean gone

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2006 - BucksCounty.org

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1998 – BucksCounty.org

Where will your children be in 10 years?

3 Basic questions

• Would I share this with my parents?

• Would I want a college recruiter or job interviewer to see this?

• Could this allow someone to find me and put me in danger?

Growing Up Online

The Threat of Online Predators

The truth about 1 in 7

• Half of solicitations came from other youths

• Many were rude comments, not advances

• 2/3 were not frightened or upset by incident

• Almost all dealt with incidents by blocking, leaving or ignoring.

http://www.unh.edu/ccrc

What NOT to do

To Do

• Discuss social networking with your children

– Ground rules for online behaviors

– Your duty, as parent, to be aware of their online actions

• Know where they are– Check out their profile, and

their friends’ profiles.

• Be a role model– Set up your own profile

More To Do

• Available Resources

– iSafe.org– Wiredsafety.org– Netsmartz.org– Wesley Fryer’s

resources: http://tinyurl.com/222zgr

NSBA Creating and Connecting

“Many adults … are like fish out of water when it comes to this new online lifestyle. It’s important for policymakers to see and try out the kinds of creative communications and collaboration tools that students are using — so that their perceptions and decisions about these tools are based on real experiences.”

NSBA Creating and Connecting Report

NSBA Creating and Connecting

“Many adults … are like fish out of water when it comes to this new online lifestyle. It’s important for policymakers parents to see and try out the kinds of creative communications and collaboration tools that students are using — so that their perceptions and decisions about these tools are based on real experiences.”

NSBA Creating and Connecting Report

Club Penguin

Imbee

Taking It Global

Digital Dialogue

Mom Reality

Dad Daily

MySpace

MySpace – Safety Center

Facebook

Facebook

Facebook

Don’t just remove it, blanket it

• Change the content at its source

• Request archives/cache be deleted

• Cover with newer, more relevant content

Making it Work

• Des Moines, Iowa• Students create

both online portfolios for colleges and employers to find.

• Search for themselves to see what admissions will find about them.

Tips• Don’t lie• Be Professional• Show off and stay current• Censor yourself and friends• Edit, spell check and proofreadDes Moines Register, July 19, 2007

Networking for Success

• Dave Lee (UK)– Set up own blog to

share his insights– Became top hit for

search on “student blogger”

– Landed teaching post in New Zealand due to online record

Kansas State – Vision of Students Today

Marco Torres – Making it Meaningful

Make it work for you

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