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Fcebook describes these staffers as an internal police force, charged with regulating users' decorum, hunting spammers and working with actual law-enforcement agencies to help solve crimes. Part hall monitors, part vice cops, these employees are key weapons in Facebook's efforts to maintain its image as a place that's safe for corporate advertisers-more so than predecessor social networks like Friendster and MySpace.

From Cable In The Classroom Project. Some tips for teachers who are paving the way for better digital citizenship.

THE JOURNAL (arcticle) by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey. Provides a five-step program for creating a digital citizenship program in your school.Over the last two years, it has become evident that a behavior pattern of misuse and abuse with respect to technology is \nbeginning to emerge in our society. This outbreak of \ntechnology misuse and abuse is documented in continual news \ncoverage on TV, in newspapers and on the Internet - both \ninside and outside of schools. The endless list of misuse and \nabuse includes hacking into school servers, using e-mail to \nintimidate or threaten students, illegally downloading music, \nplagiarizing information from the Internet, using cellular \nphones during class time, accessing pornographic Web sites, \nand playing video games during class. Therefore, if you are \nusing technology in your district, you must begin to deal with \ndigital citizenship in a significant way. \n

Slideshare tutorial about ISTE Teacher Standard IV: Digital Citizenship by Jason Ohler.

Online presentation on Digital Citizenship from Kevin Murphy. [Nov08]

Mike Ribble's ISTE Webinar presentation, based on his new book, RAISING A DIGITAL CHILD.

Slideshare presentation with 40 slides done as a presentation to presentation to the parents of St Therese Catholic Primary School.

Locate powerpoint presentations created by others on topics related to cyberbullying

Locate cybersafety presentations created by others.

Locate Digital Citizenship PowerPoint presentations presented by others.

Locate PowerPoint presentations presented by others on Internet Safety.

One in seven juveniles will be solicited online"-a number that got predictably huge media play when it came out in 2006, and a number David Finkelhor, (Crimes Against Children Research Center) stands by, with one enormous caveat: Most of those solicitations, he says, are the Internet equivalent of "wolf whistles."

Deleting embarrassing skeletons from the Net could keep employers from turning you away

While Facebook is adding users, MySpace is losing them. Many user profile pages on MySpace are either cluttered or neglected, resembling a strip mall with pockets of empty storefronts. The users who remain tend to be younger and poorer, putting a drag on advertising revenue from blue-chip clients.

The Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) short animated video - Think before you upload! - aims to highlight the possible risks for young people of using on-line technologies such as social networking and gaming sites.

TEENAGERS should think twice before posting personal information and photos on the internet, as they might come back to haunt them, privacy experts warn. Young people risked losing jobs or being embarrassed by teachers and relatives viewing party pictures or sexually explicit images uploaded on social networking websites.

Now comes new details about the parental control system coming to the App Store. All iPhone applications will be rated in one of four age categories: 4+, 9+, 12+, or 17+. When Apple announced the coming 3.0 release of its iPhone software, it referred to parental controls for apps.

This is not the usual Ryan Halligan video that shows up all over the Internet. This particular story was recorded for the Oprah Show by Harpo Productions. Ryan's dad always speaks with such painful and raw emotion about this tragic story.

School resource officers from across Alabama and the nation fielded complaints about an Internet extortionist badgering girls for nude pictures. Victims even created a Facebook page warning females not to talk to the person with the user name Metascape.

Story of a woman who was harrassed through repeated CraigsList postings and fake ads directing people to her phone number.