by Lynette Owens | Sep 9, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Over the past year, Internet safety for kids seems to have risen moderately in importance among the general public. It is harder for me now than a year ago to meet a parent or teacher that doesn’t have a story to tell about their school, where...
by Lynette Owens | Jun 2, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens After 6 weeks of watching the entries come in, and a week of determining the finalists and winners, we have finally announced the winners of the “What’s Your Story?” video contest. When we began planning the contest, we hoped to use a medium that...
by Lynette Owens | May 11, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
by Lynette T. Owens On April 26, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take on the case of Schwarzenegger vs. the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA). The outcome of this hearing has great bearing on how age ratings will be enforced for video games that are...
by Lynette Owens | Apr 1, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette Owens On Monday of this week, nine high school students of South Hadley, Massachusetts were charged in the case of 15-year old Phoebe Prince who, after months of being bullied online and in school, took her own life on January 14 of this year. The criminal...
by Lynette Owens | Mar 16, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette Owens Today marks the launch of “What’s Your Story?”, a campaign designed to help educate kids, parents, and teachers about staying safe online. We are inviting anyone over the age of 13 in the U.S. or Canada* to submit a short video and impart some...
by Lynette Owens | Feb 24, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette Owens You may not have noticed, but earlier this month YouTube made available a new feature that is intended to help users block others from viewing videos that might be inappropriate for them. It doesn’t remove any content from their site, it just keeps...
