The National Road Safety Foundation teamed up with National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS), to invite young people to help get out important safe driving messages in their own thoughts and words in a Drive to Life PSA Competition. The winning video was submitted by Bethany Brown.
The Cecil County Public Schools in Cecil County MD have produced this somber PSA (available in Quicktime or Windows Media Player versions) warning students of the dangers of posting too much personal information online.
A series of nine videos on bullying and cyberbullying from the Kids Help Phone, a 24/7 bilingual anonymous phone counseling, information and referral service based in Canada.
The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) is made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse. Check out their PSA, "Think You Know Who You are Talking To?"
Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system. Work can also be published as podcasts on the Internet. Students tap research and persuasive writing strategies as they design announcements for an audience of their peers.
Turned in March 4th, 2010 for STN (Student Television Network Convention) at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. There was a limit of six hours to make a 30 second PSA (Public Service Announcement.) The topic was "cyberbullying." Supervised editing took place and the film was shot, edited and finished before deadline.
30-second PSA. Part of the Project Safe Childhood national media campaign to combat the increase of sexual predators using the Internet to entice and sexually exploit children: http://www.knowwheretheygo.org. Stresses importance of knowing where your kids go online. Site includes video PSA's, webisodes, radio PSA's and transcripts available in both English and Spanish and offers links to a digital library of free multimedia resources available by topic.
Cyber Bullying has gained national attention in the case of Phoebe Prince, an irish immigrant attending South Hadley High School in Massachusetts. Though this case has shed new light on the issues of cyber bullying, there are many cases of what has been dubbed "bullycide" where students bullied both on and off line have taken their lives. Regardless of where the bullying is taking place, it is still an issue that must be dealt with on every level in order to prevent further tragedies.
This ad transfers the situation of the Internet to the real life to show that parents often don't really know what their kids are doing and so don't protect them properly
Sony Creative Software Contest- Winner, School Video Category [Cyberbullyiing Public Service Announcement ]
Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary. Background info from Marvin Jiminez, Director. I decided to enter the contest for two reasons. First, being one of the poorest school districts in the city, I felt our students would greatly appreciate the software prizes to use in sharing their stories in a visual manner. Second, this project would be my directorial debut. I really enjoyed directing this project and seeing it come to life from an idea to film. The students who volunteered as talent really did an exceptional job and were very fun to direct. The project itself took approx. 20 pre-production hours, 6 production hours, and 8 post-production hours. The title I decided to use is "Words Sometimes Really Do Hurt".
Sony Creative Software Contest- Winner, Independent Video Category [Cyberbullyiing Public Service Announcement ]
Background info from Josh Borugeois. "I wanted to try and create something that would stick out on a very low budget. I got the light bulb idea from "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." I thought it created sort of an "all alone in someone's head feeling". I wrote the dialog thinking of some of the things teenagers would never say, or never think. I believe there are lot of messed up people online looking to prey on clueless individuals. I thought if I could create a spot that made teenagers being careful look like the cool thing to do, then maybe some would try it. Teenagers like to see a peer taking control of a situation. This generation is all about owning decisions."