Trend Micro Inc. today announced the winners of the company's second annual "What's Your Story?" international video contest that empowers youth to be leaders in educating others about being safe online.

Various winners for online safety via Trend Micro. These may be good examples for Action Projects?

"AUSTRALIAN school teachers will have access to a new cybersafety training program, helping them to protect students from cyberbullying, sexting and grooming by internet predators."

""We're reaching the point where schools should be teaching best practice for social media, right from primary school age, and the importance of protecting their images and information online," says Darabi."

I am not sure that primary students can appreciate that what is placed into the cyber sphere, it may well be there always and the importance of this.

""Many kids think that on a social media site that their actions will be anonymous and that they are free to use it as weapon to bully, harass, and intimidate another person. This case demonstrates that assuming the identity of another person on the Internet with the intent to torment them and expose them to the harassment of others is a crime.""

This news article may be a bit too much for use in the classroom.

This is truly a campaign BY kids FOR kids, addressing the audience not from an adult authoritative perspective, but a peer-to-peer behaviour awareness perspective.

Looks to be a 'fun' way to approach such a serious subject.

You Tube presentation by a well know Australian Psychologist and I have heard him speak 'live' several times.

"FREQUENTLY playing computer games appears to reduce a teenager's chances of going to university"

"Our story yesterday about the laptop thief who returned it and apologised after an embarrassing clip of him dancing was posted on YouTube by the computer's owner"

"The Joint Select Committee on Cyber-safety has commenced its inquiry and is keen to seek the input from individuals, schools, community groups and industry professionals."

"EVERY school in Australia will be able to audit how safe they are under a highly anticipated national framework to be released in Brisbane today. The release of the revised National Safe Schools Framework coincides with Australia's first National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence, the Herald Sun reported."

"The South Australian government wants to make it an offence to post violent or other degrading images on the internet."

"Australian start-ups have caught on to our urge to impulse shop and are spearheading the private online shopping club trend Down Under. Started in France through vente-privee.com, then followed up locally first by Ozsale.com.au, then brandsExclusive and Buyinvite.com.au, online shopping clubs work by signing up members to receive regular newsletters with exclusive offers on fashion items and other goods."

What is meant by impulse buying?

"This is a time-consuming process, particularly if you are insanely popular, with hundreds of "friends", but will make every aspect of controlling your privacy that much easier. Friend lists allow you to group your contacts in to groups, so that you're only sharing certain information with certain people. For example, you might create four lists: "Close friends", "Acquaintances", "Family", and "Work""

Do teenagers configure their privacy settings properly in Facebook?

"The survey found lonely children and teenagers communicated online much more frequently about how they felt, serious problems and confidential topics. Lonely children and teenagers also reported communicating online in order to belong to a group and to relax - much more so than those who were not lonely. "Lonely kids found great company on the internet," Associate Professor Campbell said. She said the study found lonely children and teenagers viewed the internet as a "protected" environment in which they could better express their inner selves. "We also found that kids who were socially anxious felt they could be more themselves when communicating online," she said. "They were not as anxious in developing friendships because they were at that one remove.""

Would lonely people be more likely to become 'addicted' to the Internet?

"There are positive links between access to technology and feelings of well-being, a study claims. "

How does technology in rural areas assist in the feeling good?

"TWO years ago, eBay Australia tried to force sellers to use PayPal as the only available payment option on the online auction giant's local site. That attempt went horribly wrong and, apart from the bad press, eBay found itself in trouble with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and the Reserve Bank." From July 14, eBay will require sellers to offer at least one of three safe payment methods -- PayPal, Paymate and merchant credit cards.

Why would consumers object to being forced to make online payments through only one service, that being PayPal?