“Cyber-bullying is when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online or repeatedly picks on another person through emails or text messages, or uses online forums and postings online intended to harm, damage, humiliate or isolate another person that they don’t like.” The National Crime Prevention Council criterion of what constitutes cyber-bullying is "when the Internet, cell phones, or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person." (wikipedia.com)
Wikipedia does a great job of describing what exactly cyber bullying is. Cyber bullying concerns me when asking students to post information online. I do not want to open students up to online perpetrators. So I have been waiting on starting my students with blogs. Waiting until I can gain information from the school district on a way for students to have blogs through the school district services, which should limit the about of cyber bullying. By the time students reach high school to where I teach I would hope yet don’t assume that they would have a considerable amount of knowledge about cyber bullying.
Looking at the national crime prevention council website they have some short videos that could be used a teaching tools for students.
http://www.ncpc.org/newsroom/current-campaigns/cyberbullying/?searchterm=cyber%20bullying
Some good resources about cyber bullying and /or teaching about it:
http://www.wtvi.com/teks/06_07_articles/cyberbullying.html
The following site has some great information on how to save bullying information, tips on things not to share etc. Really worth looking at.
http://www.cyberbullying.org/pdf/Cyberbullying_Information.pdf
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