The new FaceBook for 6 - 10 Year Olds??

Just saw this article about "Togetherville":

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/19/wired.togetherville/index.html?hpt=T2

Not condoning or supporting it in any way yet but I will definitely do some research.

At first glance it looks promising but I wonder if it will catch on.

John XXIII School Middletown Rocks!!

What a great day.  After the cyber-bullying presentations for the kids I did my standard Internet Safety presentation for the parents and met some great people.  Everyone was very attentive, inquisitive, and kind to me.  Thanks so much for having me come up.


The resources I referred to in my presentation tonight can be found in the archive of this blog.  If you look on the right side of the screen under "Blog Archive" you can click on the arrow next to 2009 to open the entries form last year.  Then if you click the arrow next to November you will see the title "Handouts from the Presentation."  This is where you will find the resources and how-to documents for the stuff I talked about (like setting your search engine filters).

E-mail me at mpdermody@gmail.com with comments or questions.

Cyber-Bullying Presentation for Kids - First Run

Thanks to John XXIII School in Middletown I had my first run of my new cyber-bullying presentation for kids this morning.  We did two sessions, one for the younger kids and one for the junior high kids and it went very well.  What a great bunch of kids and my compliments to the faculty - you have a great school.  GO FALCONS!!  Tonight I'm doing my Internet Safety presentation for the parents.  Looking forward to it.


The materials for my new cyber-bullying presentation are now available here:  
Gradeschool Presentation: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5gdVOuWJv-cZWVkYTQwNjEtYTk2Yi00Y2E5LTkxYzYtNmYzN2Y0ZmU2ZDQ5&hl=en


Junior High Presentation: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5gdVOuWJv-cYmVmNjQwNzMtZWE4ZC00N2ZkLWFlY2YtNmU1ZjRjMWYxMDk3&hl=en