1. TGIF

2. OMG

3. Acronyms Common examples of everyday acronyms that you might already be familiar with are: North Atlantic Treaty Organization = NATO Thank God It's Friday = TGIF Absent Without Leave = AWOL

4. Acronyms Common examples of everyday acronyms that your Children might already be familiar with are: By the way = BTW Gotta go = G2G Rolling on floor laughing = ROFL

5. Acronyms Common examples of everyday acronyms that you NEED to be familiar with are: AITR = Adult In The Room P911 = Parent Emergency PAW = Parents Are Watching PIR = Parent In Room POS = Parent Over Shoulder PLOS = Parents Looking Over shoulder PRW = Parents Are Watching MOS = Mom Over Shoulder LMAO=Laughing my Ass Off MIRL = Meet In Real Life S2R = Send To Receive (pictures) LMIRL = (Lets) Meet In Real Life CD9 = Code 9 - (means parents are around) E or X = Ecstasy (the drug) ASL(R P) = Age Sex Location (Race / Picture) TDTM = Talk Dirty To Me

7. Definition “A person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more persons and he or she has difficulty defending him or herself.” Dr. Dan Olweus

8. DIFFERENCES BULLYING DIRECT Occurs on school property Poor relationships with teachers www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov CYBERBULLYING ANONYMOUS Occurs off school property Good relationships with teachers {McKenna & Bargh, 2004; Ybarra & Mitchell, 2004} From ‘Demystifying and Deescalating Cyber Bullying’ by Barbara Trolley, Ph.D. CRC, Connie Hanel, M.S.E.d & Linda Shields, M.S.E.d. http://www.nyssca.org/CYBERBULLYING-pp-BT28th.ppt http://www.nyssca.org/CYBERBULLYING-pp-BT28th.ppt

9. What is Cyberbullying? Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as email, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging (IM), defamatory personal web sites, and defamatory online personal polling web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others (Keith & Martin, 2004).

10. Recently, i-SAFE America conducted a national survey of more than 1500 students -ranging from fourth to eighth grade.

12. iSafe Survey 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online 53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful things to another online 42% of kids have been bullied while online 34% were threatened

13. Why do kids cyberbully each other? –There are four kinds of cyberbullies –Vengeful Angels (wanting to right wrongs) –Power-Hungry (traditional schoolyard bullying mentality, doing it for power…the ironic twist is that offline victims often become online bullies) –Mean Girls (doing it for entertainment, usually in groups. Not always girls.) –Inadvertent Cyberbullies (didn’t mean to cyberbully anyone, reacted in anger or was misunderstood)

14. Statistics  90% of middle school students they polled had their feelings hurt online  65% of their students between 8-14 have been involved directly or indirectly in a cyber bullying incident as the cyber bully, victim or friend  50% had seen or heard of a website bashing of another student  75% had visited a website bashing  40% had their password stolen and changed by a bully (locking them out of their own account) or sent communications posing as them  Only 15% of parent polled knew what cyber bullying was

15. Cyberbullying Suicide Talent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOQyMvG99w&featu re=related

16. CYBER BULLYING Cyber bullying typically starts at about 9 years of age and usually ends after 14 years of age; after 14, it becomes cyber or sexual harassment due to nature of acts and age of actors ( Aftab ) Roughly 160,000 students in the US missed school today to avoid being bullied ( Southern Povery Law Center ) http://www.aftab.com/

17. “Everyone hates you! Die” “One bullet will end it all.”” To a student whose father recently died: “At least I still have my father”

18. When Joanne had a problem with a longtime friend last year, she had no idea it would spill into cyberspace. But what started as a spat at a teenage sleepover swiftly escalated into a three-month of threatening e-mails and defacement of her weblog. "It was a non-stop nightmare," says Joanne, 14, a freshman at a private high school in Southern California. "I dreaded going on my computer."

19. "If I find you, I will beat you up," one message read. Frightened, Michael blocked their IM addresses but didn't tell his parents for two weeks. "It scared me," he recalls. "It was the first time I was bullied." At one Elementary School in Fairfax, Va. last year, sixth-grade students conducted an online poll to determine the ugliest classmate, school officials say.

20. "The person was pretending it was me, and using it to call people names," the 14-year-old Seattle student said. "I never found out who it was." In June 2003 a twelve-year-old Japanese girl killed her classmate because she was angry about messages that had been posted about her on the Internet.

21. Canadian teenager David Knight’s life became hell when a group of his school mates established a “Hate David Knight” website and posted denigrating pictures and abuse and invited the global community to join in the hate campaign.

22. Why Use Technology to Bully? Anonymity Rapid deployment and dissemination Immediate Rich medium Natural

23. Sexting Chat Roulette Geotagging

24. What is the Impact of Cyberbullying? Psychological, physical, and emotional depression, anxiety, anger, school failure, school avoidance, suicide, and school violence Role modeling for others which increases likelihood of increased bullying

25. Megan Meier Megan Meier was a 13-year-old girl who took her own life after being bullied on MySpace Lori Drew, the Meiers' 48-year-old neighbor in suburban St. Louis, admitted in a police report that she created a fictitious MySpace account and pretended to be a boy (Josh Evans), with a romantic interest in Megan. According to the police report, Drew created the profile to find out what Megan was saying online about her teenage daughter. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3929774

26. What is the Impact of Cyberbullying? Legal consequences for school and families (slander, defamation, terrorist threats, sexual exploitation, etc.) Family Complications Very difficult to take back once it begins. Goes against our school mission

27. Internet Safety Never tell your full name, especially your last name Never give your address to anyone online Never tell the name of your school Never mention teachers by name Never mention the name of your sports team. Its OK to say you play soccer, but do not give out the name or league Never send pictures of yourself Never agree to meet anyone in person that you chat with over the internet Sheriff Vincent F. DeMarco

28. Internet safety Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZHq4C QekTYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZHq4C QekTY Video by Ryan Chatel

29. What Educators Can Do … Conduct a needs/threat assessment Review school policy Provide opportunities for professional development of school staff and parents. Guidance from home and school System of reporting (especially among peers) Work with authorities Counseling Anti-bullying programs

30. What Parents Can Do Keep computer in a place easy to monitor Use monitoring software and/or blocking/filtering Work with the school and authorities Get tech literate Communicate with children about the issue Programmable cell phones Support the victims

31. What We Can ALL Do …

32. Resources www.cyberbullying.us www.netsmartz.org www.eyesonbullying.org www.cybertipline.com www.wiredsafety.org www.icanstalku.com www.stopbullyingnow.com/ www.isafe.org