Think Before You Post
Posted by Sean Gardinier on July 29th, 2007
Below is a video distributed by the Ad Council through the The CyberTipLine, part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
My students range from 12-14 years in age with most being active online users. In my classroom portal, my students will post a link to their MySpace or the like. Now and then, I will moderate the links for appropriateness. I’m often shocked what some of my own students will post online. Aside from ill-chosen text, students post images and videos of themselves showing things their parents (and certainly their teacher) would not approve. I now make sure a lesson about being careful what you post is part of my curriculum. This year, it will happen towards the beginning of the year.
This lesson (what are your kids posting?) needs to be extended to parents as well. I asked my school if we could create a page on our school’s website where parents can go for resources on child internet safety. Hopefully that will be implemented sometime this year with my help. I hope the Ad Council produces more videos like the one below for teens, preteens, and parents.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
What a great way to illustrate the point, good idea to teach your students about this.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Great post and great advice to anyone communicating via the net. The more I use Youtube the more impressed I am with it.