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Beatbullying publish updated report "Virtual Violence II": The Real Impact Of Cyberbullying Revealed

Beatbullying today publishes Virtual Violence II: Progress and Challenges in the Fight against Cyberbullying - an in-depth study of the state of cyberbullying amongst children, young people and teachers in the UK. The report is commissioned by Nominet Trust and in association with the NAHT . It will...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 02-06-2012
Facebook New Privacy Setting Changes: an e-Safety perspective

In the next few days Facebook will be rolling out changes to its privacy settings options to all users. Facebook state that they believe the new privacy settings will offer more control to users and will make managing personal data more visual and straightforward. One of the key changes for users to...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 08-24-2011
New research on Cyberbullying published

Anglia Ruskin University has published a study which identifies how bullying via texts, e-mails, social networks can have detrimental effects on mental health for people aged 11 to 19.This reseacrh would estimate that nearly one in five UK youngsters have been the victim of cyberbullying, with more girls...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 08-01-2011
Professional Abuse Survey

A news article from the BBC from last year highlighted the concerns of professionals working with young people becoming victims on online abuse: Teachers bullied by 'hate sites ' In the light of increasing concerns around this issue, The South West Grid for Learning, working with Childnet International...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 02-16-2011
New e-Safety Resources and Information - September 2010

Below is a selection of new tools and resources to help with your e-Safety practice in this school year! Teach Today - Teacher of the Month Competition Teach Today is a website which aims to help education professionals understand new technologies and to help them be aware how to protect themselves as...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 09-16-2010
The safe use of new technologies

This report is based on evidence from a small-scale survey carried out between April and July 2009 in 35 maintained schools in England. It evaluates the extent to which the schools taught pupils to adopt safe and responsible practices in using new technologies, and how they achieved this. It also assesses...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-11-2010
Anti-bullying Week 2009 – Be Safe in Cyberspace

The Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) is calling on all schools in England to take part in Anti-Bullying Week 2009, which takes place 16 -20 November. The focus will be on cyberbullying - the use of information communications technology (ICT), particularly mobile phones and the internet, to deliberately upset...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 11-05-2009
First Cyberbully jailed in UK

A Worcestershire teenager is thought to be the first person in Britain jailed for social network bullying after threatening to kill someone on Facebook. In jailing 18-year-old Keeley Houghton up for three months in a young offenders institution, District Judge Bruce Morgan described the online bullying...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 08-25-2009
Child Safety Week on Teachers TV

The schedule for Teachers TV this week is focussing on child safety and in particular there are two programmes on esafety. Both have been shown before and can be downloaded from the website. See http://www.teachers.tv/node/34948 Heidi

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-22-2009
The Big Stand - take a stand against Cyberbullying

Beatbullying is asking every every person in the UK, young people and adults, to stand up at 10am on Thursday 14 May, as a national sign of defiance against bullying and cyberbullying and in solidarity with the millions of young people being bullied and cyberbullied. A free lesson plan and worksheet...

Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 05-11-2009

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