iKeepSafe’s partner Yahoo! recently launched the new and improved Yahoo! Safely. Through their ongoing efforts to promote a safe online experience, Yahoo! updated the Yahoo! Safely website to provide the same great expert advice and information, but now with an edgier format targeted at a teen audience. The website is home to iKeepSafe’s PSAs targeting important safety topics, such as cyber-bullying and online reputations. Yahoo! continues to provide excellent resources for parents and teens.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Yahoo! Launches New Yahoo! Safely Site Featuring iKeepSafe
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iKeepSafe: Internet Safety and Security | Age Verification Programs Miss the Mark
Internet Safety and Security | Age Verification Programs Miss the Mark
Recently, there has been a media blitz regarding age verification technologies preventing sexual predators from using social networking sites like MySpace or FaceBook. At first glance parents may be pacified by the hope that a single technology solution will significantly reduce their child's risk online. The reality is that if parents and policy makers focus solely on social networking sites, or any single technology solution, then the mark for real Internet safety is missed: by a mile.
My goal as a parent is to have my child become an ethical, responsible and resilient cybercitizen. Age verification will not help me do this. Here is why:
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http://ikeepsafe.blogspot.com/2009/02/internet-safety-and-security-age.html
Video game dropouts | WINK News - Southwest Florida | Eye on Education
Video game dropouts
By WINK News
Lee Hutto’s first attempt at college was not successful.
“My first semester I withdrew because I was gonna fail all my classes,” he says.
As a college freshman, Lee was not prepared for the fraternities, parties, sports and long hours of hard work.
“It’s very, very easy for students to become over-committed very quickly and to lose sight of why they’re in college,” says Dr. Sherrie Nist, director of academic enhancement at the University of Georgia.
In fact, some estimates show 20 percent of college students drop out before the start of their sophomore year- one in five!
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A champion of social and emotional learning reaches out to students.
Teen accused of sex assaults in Facebook scam
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An 18-year-old U.S. student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts.
"The kind of manipulation that occurred here is really sinister in my estimation," Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel said Wednesday.
Anthony Stancl, of New Berlin, west of Milwaukee, was charged Wednesday with five counts of child enticement, two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, possession of child pornography, repeated sexual assault of the same child and making a bomb threat.
Stancl's attorney, Craig Kuhary, said Stancl plans to plead not guilty to the charges and hopes to reach a plea agreement with the district attorney
"It's too early in the case for me to make a statement, other than the fact at some point we are going to go into events that had taken place earlier that might have had some impact on what he did here," he said. He wouldn't go into specifics.
The incidents allegedly happened from spring 2007 through November, when officers questioned Stancl about a bomb threat he allegedly sent to teachers and wrote about on a school's bathroom wall. It resulted in the closing of New Berlin Eisenhower Middle and High School, which he attended.
According to the criminal complaint, Stancl first contacted the students through the social networking site Facebook, pretending to be a girl named Kayla or Emily.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-05-facebook-teen_N.htm?csp=Tech
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