Comments on: Social Networking Presentation for Parents

By: technotuesday

technotuesday — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:36:17 +0000

Rob, Hey Ron thanks for the compliment on my SN preso. I have some friends down in Charleston that knew about my preso too, and asked if they could use it, so I sent them the link for the slides too. Since it was mostly pictures, they asked if I would come and help present it, also asking what I thought would have improved my preso. Note mine was only supposed to be a 20 minute session, but the princ made an executive decision, an extended it to 45 minutes with total agreement for the attendees. So I reposted my information (see presentation materials) and sent them that link. I suggested they have a panel including a parent, student, a school resource officer, a principal, a guidance counselor and them. So they turned around and asked me to come do my prso, and then sit ona panel for grou round table discussion AND then q/a. We did have a few questions and answers, mostly about the age appropriateness, and how to tell if a friend really is a friend…During our q/a if I did not know I simply said as much. But we id have a few parents who seemed to be knowledgeable and chimed in here or there. We even had one of our teachers bring up that a student her own child knew had made a page for Tom Cruise JUST so the student could try to “friend” pretty girls. Creepy. I even had someone bring up the Megan Meier story too, but I cautioned that the story was not “typical” but that the SN sites were a topic that parents should have frank conversations about with their children, and that the pages should be monitored frequently. Thanks for asking.

By: Rob Darrow

Rob Darrow — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:48:05 +0000

Great slide show and simple, easy to understand suggestions for parents. Did they have time to ask questions? Were there any comments from parents or follow up conversations? Always interesting to find out how parents are handling social networking of their kids.

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By: technotuesday

technotuesday — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:10:54 +0000

Diane, the principal has asked if we can repeat this at our next parent workshop night, AND she wants me to give the same information in an upcoming staff development for teachers since some of our discipline problems are stemming from cyberbullying in MySpace. She wants more parents to hear it, and teachers to be knowledgeable about the issues that surround it. (I guess my perspective in a teacher meeting would be this is what know and I think parents should know too, and you as the teacher can tell the parents (via phone call) that don’t come to our parent meetings….)

We are aslo talking about the next one taking a slightly differnet format–a panel of folks including me, the principal, a resource officer, a student, and a parent–I got this from another fellow SC LMS who asked about the workshop too and shared with my principal. So the next one would definitely have a different look and feel.

We’ll see how it goes too.

By: diane

diane — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:09:55 +0000

Cathy,

Sounds like this was a slam bang presentation!

I totally agree that the best way to protect our kids is to educate them. Isn’t that why Health classes and sex education is required in schools?

How did the parents react to your message? What about your teachers and administrators?

A lot to think about here – thanks.

diane