Monday, May 17, 2010

Bloody and Bullied

Heard on the radio this morning that ABC 11 News will be featuring a bully segment today at 5:30pm!

Thursday, May 6, 2010

What is Cyber Bullying?

Cyberbullying, which is sometimes referred to as online social cruelty or electronic bullying, can involve:
•Sending mean, vulgar, or threatening messages or images
•Posting sensitive, private information about another person
•Pretending to be someone else in order to make that person look bad
•Intentionally excluding someone from an online group (Willard, 2005)
Children and youth can cyberbully each other through:
•Emails
•Instant messaging
•Text or digital imaging messages sent on cell phones
•Web pages
•Blogs
•Chat rooms or discussion groups
•Other information communication technologies