Nov. 24, 2009 As fall weather kicks in and families hunker indoors to ‘more screen time’ than summer time norms, I hear tales of media management missteps that would spin heads faster than a Linda Blair Exorcist antic. (yes I know it’s almost Thanksgiving, but I’m still seguing from Halloween here…) I hear parents say things like “Oh, my kids play games sometimes, but we … [Read more...]
Internet Safety: Media Literacy Tips From Industry Insiders Pt 1
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: angst, Anne Collier, Balancing safety and fun, Beatbullying, CEOP, Channel Signal, chat rooms, children, computer world, Connect Safely, consoles, Crisp Thinking, cyber angels, cyber law, cybermentors, cybersafety, Cybersecurity, datamining, Death by information overload, digital citizens, digital citizenship, digital dinosaurs, Digizens, elearning, eModeration, EU Kidsonline, Facebook, filters, FOSI, gaming, Gazillion, genY, GenZ, Get safe, grooming, Habbo Hotel, Insafe, internet safety forum, internet safety tips, internet-safety, invisible cement, Izzy-Neis, Kids, Kids Online, knee-jerk reactions, Kzero, Larry-Magid, life literacy, media-literacy, Megan Meier, Metaverse ModSquad, MMO, MMORPG, moderated chat, moral-panic, multiplayer chat, NetFamily-News, obsolete tech, Ofcom, online communities, online moderators, online safety, Online safety 3.0, parenting, parents, predator panic, prevention, privacy, profile pages, reputation, Reputation Share, role playing, RPG, safer internet, screen time, SLJ, social-media, Spiral Solutions, Tamara Littleton, teens, ThinkUKnow, tmi, tracking tools, tweens, Twitter, Virtual-Worlds, Webosaurs, youth, youth risk
The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later
Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful day young Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die suffering for six days tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Reason for the hate crime? He … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: APA, brutal slaying, diversity, Epilogue Part 3 Laramie, Erase-Hate, gay, gay rights, Greg Pierotti, Habbo Hotel, hate crimes, history, Homecoming assault, homophobia, human rights, InfoBus, intolerance, killer, Laramie Wyoming, Lgbt, living history, Matthew Shepard, media-literacy, Moises Kauffman, MSF, murder, October 12, participatory learning, reach and teach, sexuality, support, teaching tolerance, Tectonic Theater, Tectonic Theatre, teens, The Laramie Project, theater as journalism, tied to fence, tolerance, tolerance.org, victims of violence