Archive for the ‘cyberbullying’ Category
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
This week our assistant principal Demos [pictured on the right] in consultation with 3 other local schools coordinated a series of cyberbullying workshops from ACMA [Australian Communications and Media Authority] for staff , students and parents.
The staff session was well attended and the presentation was very informative. Several points resonated ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
At the start of the school year I'm teaching a series of workshops on cyber safety for students from Years 3 - 6 . These workshops coincide with the distribution the annual student Internet Agreement that parents and students sign.
Part of the agreement that parents and students sign is that they ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Last week I sent an email to the middle and senior team leaders offering to take the students from years 3-6 for an online safety session. This was partly a response to several incidents that occurred last year with students. The fact that most of these incidents started offsite was I ...
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Recently we faced a dilemma as school leaders about students using Facebook and in posting this I'm seeking feedback from a wider audience.
To explain we were alerted to a situation about a young student who had a Facebook page. The police had been involved and explained to us about the age young people are allowed ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Recently a few parents asked for the school's support in dealing with the issue of cyberbullying. Whether the problem arose at school or at home in the end is probably not the issue - its how to stop it in the first instance and then educate youth on the power ...
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