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Excellent resources - especially videos to help educators understand the issue of cyberbullying

Experts say that schools need to stop worrying about external internet predators and take on the threat within: cyberbullying

"Geo Listening " provides a service that monitors the posts of the 14,000 students in the Glendale Unified School District, to help curtail cyberbullying, drug use, and other problems. This article provides for great discussion with students, teachers, admin., and parents.

Various resources compile by Dr. Alec Couros. Here are a few as they relate to Digital Citizenship: Copyright and Fair Use Cyberbullying Dark Side of the Internet Digital Citizenship"

Great video for parents & educators to help equip students and also protect them

Fascinating and helpful abstract on a ruling on if schools can address students off-campus posting and discipline students without violating the student's First Amendment Rights

PPT and links to resources from a presentation done at CUE conference in Spring 2010.

"A movement and documentary, based upon the powerful belief in KINDness, that brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl-against-girl "crime". "

A downloadable pdf guide for administrators.

A forum for teenagers dealing with innapropriate online behavior. Includes, videos, games, discussion forum, help lines, "callout cards" and general helpful information.

To promote the digital literacy executive order that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enacted last year, the state's Office of Information Technology has released a series of YouTube videos featuring California's technology leaders answering questions about the importance and impact of residents being digitally literate.

links to a variety of resources for educators

This tutorial is designed so that you can learn how to use the tools of web 2.0 for your classes or for fun.

MTV's A Thin Line campaign was developed to empower you to identify, respond to, and stop the spread of digital abuse in your life and amongst your peers. The campaign is built on the understanding that there's a "thin line" between what may begin as a harmless joke and something that could end up having a serious impact on you or someone else. We know no generation has ever had to deal with this, so we want to partner with you to help figure it out. On-air, online and on your cell, we hope to spark a conversation and deliver information that helps you draw your own digital line.