Most Recent Presentation Resources

I'm preparing for a presentation next week in DC about Social Networking. Here are the resources I plan on using for the presentation. They are in no particular order at this point:

NetFamilyNews Blog
http://www.netfamilynews.org/

Frontline: Growing Up Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Megan Meier Chicago Tribune Story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-megan-meier-myspace-080515-ht,0,1888103.story
CNN Story on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFsfDLCkfQU
Megan Meier Memorial MySpace Page
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=282649353

Olivia Gardner Story in San Francisco Chronicle (Bullying)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/23/MNGTFPVVON1.DTL

Avery Donninger Case: Hartford Courant Newsarticle
http://www.courant.com/community/news/fv/hc-doninger0530.artmay30,0,5206405.story

Instant Messenger Dictionary
http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/mediaglossary-lexicon.html

Crimes Against Children Research Center 2006 Report
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/cv138.pdf

Pew Internet Research Center: Teens and Social Media
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp

Pew Internet Research Center: Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/211/report_display.asp

Tips For Removing Offensive Profiles from Various Social Networking Sites
http://www.cyberbullyhelp.com/Help%20Tips%20for%20Reporting%20Offensive%20Profiles.pdf

Internet Filter Review and Comparison
http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/

AOL Parental Controls Download
www.parentalcontrols.aol.com/

More on Identity

Sherry Turkle (MIT) wrote an article entitled "How Computers Change the Way We Think" in the Jan 2004 Chronicle of Higher Education. I thought this snippet was particularly interesting and conflicts with the somewhat relieving information I posted about last....

"Avatars or a self? Chat rooms, role-playing games, and other technological venues offer us many different contexts for presenting ourselves online. Those possibilities are particularly important for adolescents because they offer what Erik Erikson described as a moratorium, a time out or safe space for the personal experimentation that is so crucial for adolescent development. Our dangerous world -- with crime, terrorism, drugs, and AIDS -- offers little in the way of safe spaces. Online worlds can provide valuable spaces for identity play.
But some people who gain fluency in expressing multiple aspects of self may find it harder to develop authentic selves. Some children who write narratives for their screen avatars may grow up with too little experience of how to share their real feelings with other people. For those who are lonely yet afraid of intimacy, information technology has made it possible to have the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship."

Hmm....the research continues.
Image Credit: http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/

Social Networks Research

Marc Prensky posted on his Weblogg-ed Blog about the new National School Boards Association report "Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social--and Educational--Networking." This 10-page report outlines the positives and what they call the "gaps", as well as guidance and recommendations. It is targeted for School Board members, but the data and recommendations within are helpful for any parent or teacher.