Cyber Safety Info for Staff

General Resources

• WiredSafety.com - Internet safety resources
• NetSmartz.org - Interactive, educational safety resources and videos
• ConnectSafely.org - Safety advice, news and forums
• Commonsensemedia.org - Resources for parents and educators
• Harris-Interactive Trends&Tudes - Research data on electronic trends and youth. These articles are a good for parent handouts and general information. Online Youth Around the World 2009 - Cyberbullying 2007 - Keep Up if You Can: Teens Are Taking Cellular Use to New Levels 2009 - Social Networking Sites 2008

Cyber Safety Resources

• Cyber Safe Kids: A Guide for Parents, Cyber Savvy Teens: A Guide for Parents - from Cyberbully.org
• Guide for Internet safety from Onguardonline.gov

Cell Phones - Sexting

• Teens and Sexting, Dec. 2009 - From Pew Internet and American Life Project

Social Networking

• Wiredsafety.com - Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe Online

Cyberbully Resources

• Oregon's new anti-bully laws HB2599
• STOPcyberbullying.org - good resources for all ages, parents, teachers and law enforcement
• CyberBully.org - resources from Nancy Willard
• The Ophelia Project - YouTube series of videos
• Stop Cyberbullying Before It Starts - NCPR - strategies for handling cyberbullying, Teens and Cyberbullying Research Study
• Cyberbullying.us - Top Ten Cyberbullying Prevention Tips for Educators, Top Ten Cyberbullying Response Tips for Educators, Top Ten Cyberbullying Prevention Tips for Parents, Top Ten Cyberbullying Response Tips for Parents, Parent/student contracts for cell phones and Internet and more from the book, Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard.
• MTV - Digital Abuse Study, 2009 (PDF)

Interesting reads

• PEW Research Center - Internet and American Life Project - Topics, teens, social networking,
• Parenting in the Internet Age - PBS 2008, Growing Up Online
  
• Digital Nation - Life on the virtual frontier - PBS 2010