Cyberbullying: What the research is telling us http://tinyurl.com/d6rdwr Presentation
Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Cyberbullying: What the research is telling us
Amanda's talk covers basic internet connectivity statistics before launching into a discussion of the major online safety issues. Broken down into issues of online contact vs online content, the talk shares data on online stranger contact, sexual victimization and cyberbullying and exposure.
Girls Bullying (online video) http://www.teachers.tv/video/29937 Girls Bullying (online video)
Experts explore the problem of girls bullying other girls and give tips on how to identify the symptoms as well as tackling the causes.
Because girls can be more subtle bullies than boys, using exclusion and verbal weapons rather than fists and fights, their actions can be more difficult to spot and change.
Building a Website on Bullying http://tinyurl.com/3uaygt Building a Website on Bullying
This unit is aimed at students in Year 7, in their first six weeks at secondary school. It provides opportunities for students to research and evaluate advisory websites [which in this instance, focuses on bullying] and then develop the ideas and thinking behind the construction of their own site, and the writing and organisation of materials that will provide advice and guidance to other students.
After five weeks of preparation, the students are given the opportunity to present their website to their peers and to critique others'.
Cyberbullying : Info at Primary School http://tinyurl.com/5kwp9n Cyberbullying : Info and lesson plans at the Primary School website (Australia)
Stop Cyberbullying http://stopcyberbullying.org/ Stop Cyberbullying
This site discusses cyberbullying ("when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted" usually by another child, preteen, or teen, via "the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones") and provides prevention tips and action items.
Includes details about the roles of parents, teachers, and police in creating a safe online environment.
Cyber bullying: From victim to crusader http://tinyurl.com/5gvtjx Cyber bullying: From victim to crusader
When Tina Meier's 13-year-old daughter, Megan, committed suicide after being bullied on the internet, her grief was so encompassing she felt at times she couldn't breathe. But in recent months, the Missouri woman has focused on ways to protect other children from cyber bullying--even leaving her job as a real estate agent to dedicate herself to the Megan Meier Foundation.
Silencing Cyberbullies http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0805/feature2.html Silencing Cyberbullies
Cyberbullying is the use of electronic technology to deliberately harass or intimidate. Unlike the schoolyard bully of yesteryear, the cyberbully can hide behind online anonymity and attack around the clock, invading the privacy of a teen's home.
With young people spending most of their free time online or texting their friends, digital bullies not only have ready access to victims, but also an audience—because without witnesses, virtual bullying loses its punch.
Cyberbullying resource pack (UK) http://www.digizen.org/cyberbullying/film.aspx? 'Let's Fight It Together' cyberbullying resource pack
This resource pack, produced by Childnet for the DCSF, aims to help children, young people, teachers and parents recognise that cyberbullying is not acceptable, and to understand the impact that it can have on different people.
The pack, which comprises a film on DVD, teacher's guide and lesson plan, is available free to maintained schools in England.
Here you will find key resources to help address the issue of cyberbullying. These include Childnet's cyberbullying film, Let’s Fight It Together, and a unique drama documentary produced by students with accompanying lesson plan.
Overcome Bullying http://www.overcomebullying.org/ How to Overcome Bullying. OvercomeBullying.org provides information and resources to help you overcome school and workplace bullying, mobbing and harassment. Speak Out Now! The Speak Out system is a powerful tool that gives your school or workplace a unique, innovative and affordable way to deal with bullying effectively.
Bullying Course http://www.bullyingcourse.com/ www.bullyingcourse.com offers a number of ways to support you in your learning about the issue of bullying, you choose the path and resources that will best help you in your learning journey.
www.bullyingcourse.com offers affordable and easily accessible online
courses and Webinars about bullying and cyberbullying for professional
educators and parents.
Children on bullying (UK Report 14Feb08) http://tinyurl.com/2v4t8h Children on bullying (UK Report 14Feb08)
Children and young people living away from home or using social care services were invited to talk about their experiences of bullying.
The report gives children's views on what bullying is and what to do about it. There are both worrying messages and hopeful signs among the varied responses.
Cyberbullying : Information for Educators http://csriu.org/cyberbully/ Mobilizing educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social aggression
Welcome to this web site! Cyberbullying is sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the Internet or other digital communication devices.
Cyberbullying is emerging as one of the more challenging issues facing educators and parents as young people embrace the Internet and other mobile communication technologies.
Bullying - A Charter for Action (UK) http://tinyurl.com/2cp3s3 Bullying - A Charter for Action UK Sept 07
To assist schools in drawing up their anti-bullying policy, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has issued revised guidance to schools entitled ‘Safe to Learn: Embedding Anti-Bullying Work in Schools’, as well as advice and materials on prejudice driven bullying and cyberbullying.
In addition, the DCSF recommend schools use this charter when determining and evaluating their policy.
Tackling school bullying (UK) http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/behaviour/tacklingbullying/ Tackling school bullying Sept 2007 (UK)
The (England/Wales) Government has made tackling bullying in schools a key priority and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has made clear that no form of bullying should be tolerated. Bullying in our schools should be taken very seriously; it is not a normal part of growing up and it can ruin lives.
It is compulsory for schools to have measures in place to encourage good behaviour and respect for others on the part of pupils, and to prevent all forms of bullying. Safe to Learn: embedding anti-bullying work in schools is the new over-arching anti-bullying guidance for schools, launched in September 2007.
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program http://www.clemson.edu/olweus/ Welcome to the U.S. website for the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.
The Olweus [pronounced Ol-VEY-us] Bullying Prevention Program is a comprehensive, school-wide program designed for use in elementary, middle, or junior high schools.
Its goals are to reduce and prevent bullying problems among school children and to improve peer relations at school. The program has been found to reduce bullying among children, improve the social climate of classrooms, and reduce related antisocial behaviors, such as vandalism and truancy.
The Olweus Program has been implemented in more than one dozen countries around the world.
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/topics/bullying.asp The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
Best Practices in Bullying Prevention and Intervention | Bully Proofing Your School | Bullying and Harassment | Bullying in Out-of-School Time Programs: Tips for Youth-Serving Professionals and Volunteers | Schoolwide Prevention of Bullying |
aVataR@School project http://www.avataratschool.eu/mod/resource/view.php?id=83 The overall goal of the project is to use virtual role plays to find a new way for conflict resolutions with a playful and cooperative approach.
The aVataR@School project aims to establish virtual role plays in which pupils, teachers and others try out strategies for conflict resolution by means of the School Peer Mediation approach.
Each virtual role plays will take plave in the most popular 3D online digital world: SecondLife (http://www.secondlife.com). For each of the role plays a scenario will be worked out to represent a typical conflict in school (e.g. social exclusion, bullying or violence). In each scenario players will try to find common solutions in a cooperative and collaborative way.
Bully OnLine and School Bully OnLine http://www.bullyonline.org/ Bully OnLine and School Bully OnLine is a resource on workplace / school bullying and related issues
Teachers who bully students http://tinyurl.com/utzsf Teachers who bully students : What can educators do about bullying by school staff?
Dr. Dan Olweus, the father of modern bullying prevention research, spoke about this topic at the National Bullying Prevention conference in Atlanta GA (October 2005). His research has found that when we ask students if they have been bullied by a teacher, half the reports we get seem genuine.
Intervention Central http://www.interventioncentral.org/ Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
Bully Prevention Booklet
Standing Up To Bullying Program http://www.StandingUpToBullying.us The Standing Up To Bullying program, sponsored by Building Strong Families National Seminars, is an a powerful, effective, skill and tool-packed, research supported, bullying prevention program that focuses on providing educators, parents, and students with interventions, tools, skills, strategies, and techniques to reduce or eradicate bullying at school, at home, and within the community. This program provides training presentations to educators, parents, and students. Additional components of this program address school violence, youth suicide, youth depression, behavior management, behavior disorders such as ADHD, and psychotropic medication. Certificates can be made available to meet continuing education requirements. For $600.00, this program can be presented on-site. More information about this program can be found at http://www.StandingUpToBullying.us. Those that are interested can email Building Strong Families National Seminars at Info@StrongFamilies.us.
Cyberbullying 101 for Educators http://tinyurl.com/fe7yz Cyberbullying 101 for Educators (a wiki)
While taking this course you are not only a learner but also helping to build this course. Please take advantage of the collaborative opportunitiy of this wiki course.
Cyberbullying 101 for Educators (teachinghacks) http://tinyurl.com/fbnx4 Cyberbullying 101 for Educators (teachinghacks)
While taking this course you are not only a learner but also helping to build this course. Please take advantage of the collaborative opportunitiy of this wiki course.
Resources will be highlighted throughout the course in order to extend your learning.
| What is Cyberbullying? | Survey Your Class | What Fuels Cyberbullying? | Impacting Responsible Behaviour in Students | Classroom Strategies | Educator's Guide to Cyberbullying | School Strategies | Brochure For Parents (Schools and other organizations may copy the first page of this document to distribute to parents at no charge.) | Family Strategies | Cyberbullying.org - Guide to Cyberbullying | Cyberbully.org - A Parents’ Guide to Cyberrbullllyiing and Cyberthreats | Web Site Resources for Educators | Online Social Networking Communities and Youth Risk |
Anti-Bullying Ireland http://homepage.eircom.net/~justinmorahan/bullying/index.html Anti-Bullying Ireland
General anti-bullying site including the Box and Interview Method to prevent bullying, devised particularly for Ireland but capable of adaptation for any country
Help for schools Bullied by surveys http://www.camsp.com/bullying/ Help for schools Bullied by surveys
Surveys are now being held as the answer to bullying. They are a means of finding out where, when and why bulling happens. Bullying has hit the headlines over the past few weeks (Nov 2005 in UK) and Children? Commissioner for England, Professor Al Aynsley plans to use Anti-Bullying Week to its full potential. He intends to ask the government to compel schools to issue children and young people with a questionnaire every term in hope of finding solutions to bullying.
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Putting yourself in others' shoes http://www.talk-helps.com/general/index.html Check out an online activity about bullying from Family Service Canada to get a feel for what it is like to be a bully, a victim, an intervener, or a bystander.
Welcome to the playground! Just like in any playground, there are lots of different types of people here. Each one has a story to tell... and each one is affected by bullying in a different way. Pick out a character by clicking on the face, then follow the character through some different scenes. Try different characters, to get a feel for what it's like to be in "someone else's shoes".
Gordon Neufeld on Bullying http://www.gordonneufeld.com/bullying.html Dr. Neufeld's insights on bullying have attracted national media attention and an invitation to keynote at Canada's first national symposium on bullying that was held in Ottawa in May of 2002.
What distinguishes his approach from many others is his focus on the psychological determinants of bullying as well as the dynamics within the bully.
Colorado Anti-Bullying site http://www.no-bully.com/ Colorado Anti-Bullying site
The role of schools in preventing bullying | Consequences of bullying behavious | advice for parents | characteristics of bullying victims | How do you keep from being bullied? | How can you help someone who is being bullied? |
Cyberbullying http://www.cyberbullying.ca/ Information and advice for victims of cyberbullying.
What Can Be Done About cyberbullying? | What are the forms that cyberbullying might take? | A Quick Introduction to Knowing What People Are Saying to Each Other in Cyberspace | Canadian website |
Cyberbullying, Flaming and Cyberstalking http://www.internetsuperheroes.org/cyberbullying/index.html Cyberbullying, Flaming and Cyberstalking
Welcome to our new Internet Super Heroes Web site. This is one of WiredSafety.org? programs and Web sites. WiredSafety.org is the world? largest online safety and help group and is staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers.
Internet Super Heroes - Cyberbullying
Information about Cyberbullying, Flaming and Cyberstalking, for Kids, Tweens, Teens, Parents, Educators and Law Enforcement
Ripple Effects for Kids http://www.rippleeffects.com/rfk/ Welcome to Relate for Kids online, a place to get help with everyday life. Right now, you'll find help dealing with bullies.
| assertiveness | bullied | bully - you do it | bystander | empathy | getting help |
... five topics to help kids in grades 3-5 respond constructively to bullying.
From Bullies to Buddies http://bullies2buddies.com/ From Bullies to Buddies
... self-help program for kids designed by a school psychologist. Included is a 10-step process to show children how to eliminate teasing and bullying on their own, as well as advice for teachers and parents.
Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/conflict/index.html Welcome to the Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along conflict resolution website!
This website is designed to help teach youth how to better manage conflicts and challenges they face on a daily basis.
The activities on the Out on a Limb website are designed primarily for third graders, but can be used to entertain and educate youth from the second and fourth grades as well.
Children learn in different ways. This program, with these exercises, takes this into account. Some children may find some activities fun and love to do them while others might not be able to do them.
The site is also available in Spanish.
Bullying Prevention Program http://www.humark.com.au/catalogue/c1/c4/p3 A complete Do It Yourself guide for teachers to address bullying with a whole-school approach.
Everything is provided - fully scripted programs and lessons, individual and group activities, handouts, overhead transparencies and animated slides.
US$400
Dealing with Bullies http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/bullies.html Dealing with Bullies
Have you ever met a bully? A bully is a boy or girl who acts mean or hurtful to others. Bullies pick on someone else as a way to get power, or to get their way, or to feel important.
Why Do Bullies Act So Bad?
Bullying Lesson Plan http://www.lawconnection.ca/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 Bullying Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students are given the opportunity to examine the problem and develop solutions that they think would be most effective in stopping bullying. They will come up with a description of what they think bullying is, the kind of students who become bullies and the kind who become victims. They will examine the law ?both its protections and its limitations. They will study some theories and practices already in place and they will come up with youth-oriented prescriptions to resolve the problem.
Bullying No Way http://www.bullyingnoway.com.au/ The Bullying. No way! project is developed and managed by all participating Australian education authorities: State and Territory government education systems, the National Catholic Education Commission, the National Council of Independent Schools' Associations and the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training.
Aims of the Bullying. No way! website
To develop a framework for sharing Australian school community solutions that work. | To use technology and networks to make this information as accessible as possible to school communities | To make sure that all students can learn in a safe and supportive school environment | To provide a nationwide resource of State and Territory approaches to minimising bullying, harassment and violence in schools |
Stop Bullying Now http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/ Stop Bullying Now
Welcome to the Take a Stand. Lend a Hand. Stop Bullying Now! Campaign web site. Whether you've been bullied, you've witnessed bullying, you've bullied others or you're just curious - we think you'll have a lot of fun and learn a lot of things while you're here!
So ... take your time and take a look around. Watch a really neat Webisode in our sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always entertaining series. Take an online survey about bullying. Play some cool games. Learn a thing or two about bullying and how to do something about it!
Girls Bullying Girls http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/parent/ra1.cfm? Girls Bullying Girls
An Introduction to Relational Aggression
From the National Association of School Psychologists
The term "relational aggression" is used to describe a type of bullying primarily used by pre-adolescent and adolescent girls to victimize other girls? covert use of relationships as weapons to inflict emotional pain. Researchers have found that, contrary to popular belief, girls are not less aggressive than boys, they are just more subtle or covert in their use of aggression.
Cyberbullying http://cyberbully.org Cyberbullying : Mobilizing educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social cruelty
Cyberbullying is sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the Internet or other digital communication devices.
Parent's Guide to Cyberbullying An overview of this phenomenon and practical guidance on prevention, detection, and intervention.
Cyberbullying in the News Links to news reports about cyberbullying.
Research Basis Review of the research and philosophy upon which the strategies developed by CSRUI are based.
Bullying: You Don't Have to Take it Anymore! http://hourglasstv.com/bullies/index.html Hourglass Production? latest film takes the school bully by the horns! This essential program was designed for young viewers to demystify their school and peer environment.
Interviews with teenagers, dramatic scenarios, and expert advice, all contribute to give young adolescents the tools to deal with bullying situations. This program covers the differences that effect boys and girls. The film focuses not only on the victim and the bully; it addresses the role of the bystander as well.
Suicide and Mental Health Association International SMHAI http://suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org/ SMHAI is dedicated to suicide and mental health related issues. Our main goal is to prevent suicidal behavior and to relieve its effects on all who maybe affected by it.
We also promote and advocate education, awareness and treatment in regards to mental health.
The Bully: A Discussion and Activity Story http://www.thebullybook.com In The Bully, a story about bullying is followed by a question and answer section for children. The questions help children express their feelings about bullies, and the answers provide practical ways to deal with bullying.
The illustrations for the story can be coloured while the subject of bullying is discussed. The adult's section of The Bully contains a question and answer portion that informs parents and caregivers about bullying.
It offers information for dealing with a bully situation in a way that demonstrates positive role modelling to children. Additional informational resources are also provided.