Completed as a project for course work, this is a presentation on internet safety and cyber-bullying for parents of school children. The assignment was to use a non-linear style presentation on a pertinent topic in technology in education. It is possible to pace through the presentation in order, but it is better to use the various buttons to go to the main content page, to go to topics within the two parts, to skip around or to go to the end, which is a page of some interesting statistics. I envisaged an interactive meeting where parents could ask questions or make comments and the presenter could then navigate forward or back to the appropriate slide easily.

1. What you should know as parents
by Charles McKinley
PTSO Technology Night 2013

2.  Any harassment that occurs via the internet, cell
phones or other electronic devices.
 When communication technology is used to
intentionally harm others through hostile
behavior including harassing or threatening text
messages or through rude or hurtful internet
postings.
 The National Crime Prevention Council defines
cyber-bullying as “the process of using the
Internet, cell phones or other devices to send or
post text or images intended to hurt or
embarrass another person.”

3. Prevention and Protection
Some Useful Websites
Tips for Parents
If Bullying Occurs
Your First Steps
By Texting or Phone
By Internet

4.  Internet Safety 101
http://www.internetsafety101.org/
 NetSmartz http://www.netsmartz.org/Parents
 Center for Safe and Responsible Internet
Use www.csriu.org
 ConnectSafely.org www.connectsafely.org
 Facebook Family Safety Center
http://www.facebook.com/help/safety
 Family Online Safety Institute www.fosi.org
 GetGameSmart
http://www.getgamesmart.com/

5. Talk Educate Agree Monitor
Next: If Bullying Occurs

6. Communicate with your children
Encourage them to be open about their
friends and interactions with others
Talk often about their web use and
Internet habits
So that they are ready and willing to
talk if or when they experience
something unpleasant or distressing
online or by cell phone

7. Educate your children about
appropriate online behaviors
Teach and reinforce positive morals and
values about how others should be
treated with respect and dignity, in
both personal interactions and in
electronic interactions

8. Set-up an agreement with your
child, and build a crystal-clear
understanding about what is
appropriate with a Contract
Internet Use Contract
Cell Phone Use Contract
(from the Cyber Bullying Research Center)

9. Monitor your child’s activities while
online – especially early in his or her
exploration of cyberspace
This is best done informally through
active participation in your child’s
Internet experience
You can also formally monitor or define
Internet usage through software

10. Texting
or Phone Internet
First
Steps

11. Tell your child not to respond to rude e-
mails, messages, and comments
Save the evidence, such as e-mail and text
messages
Take screenshots of comments and
images
Note the date and time of the harassment
Make a report to www.cybertipline.com
Inform law enforcement of any threats or
if something illegal has occurred
Contact us here at school

12. Contact your cell phone provider
Check out phone features that may
allow the number to be blocked
Change the phone number, if necessary
Instruct your child to share the new
number only with trustworthy people

13. Social networking sites, IM, chat rooms,
and e-mail
Instruct your child to “block” bullies
Contact your Internet service provider (ISP)
Ask the website administrator or ISP to
remove any Web page created to hurt
your child
Possibly delete your child’s current
account and open a new one

14.  Over 80 percent of teens
use a cell phone
regularly, making it the
most popular form of
technology and a common
medium for cyber bullying
 50% of young people have
experienced some form of
cyber bullying
 10 to 20 % experience cyber
bullying regularly
 Mean, hurtful comments
and spreading rumors are
the most common type of
cyber bullying
 Girls are at least as likely as
boys to be cyber bullies or
their victims
 Boys are more likely to be
threatened by cyber bullies
than girls
 Cyber bullying affects all
races
 Cyber bullying victims are
more likely to have low self
esteem and to consider
suicide
http://www.bullyingstatistics.
org

15.  Stop Bullying Now, copyright 2009, retrieved June 2, 2013
at http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/cyber-
bullying-statistics.html
 Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. (2009). Cell phone use contract.
Cyberbullying Research Center. Retrieved June 2, 2013,
from
http://www.cyberbullying.us/cyberbullying_cell_phone_co
ntract.pdf
 Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. (2009). Identification Prevention
Response Fact Sheet. Cyberbullying Research Center.
Retrieved June 2, 2013, from
http://www.cyberbullying.us/Cyberbullying_Identification_
Prevention_Response_Fact_Sheet.pdf
 Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. (2009). Family Internet use
contract. Cyberbullying Research Center. Retrieved June 2,
2013, from
http://www.cyberbullying.us/cyberbullying_internet_use_c
ontract.pdf
continued

16.  National Center for Missing & Exploited Children,
Copyright 2001-2013 retrieved June 2, 2013 at
http://www.netsmartz.org/Cyberbullying
 Steinberg, S., Internet Safety for Kids: Best Websites and
Services, posted July 30, 2012, retrieved June 2, 2013 at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-
steinberg/internet-safety_b_1719741.html
 TechOnTheNet, Copyright 2003-2013, retrieved June 2,
2013 at
http://www.techonthenet.com/clipart/keyboard/index.php
 U.S. Legal Inc., Copyright 2010-2013, retrieved June 2,
2013 at http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/cyber-
bullying/