Resources for Administrators, Counsellors, Teachers, & Parents

Books and Articles

Borys, Robert. Internet Awareness for Parents: A Practical Guide for Safeguarding Your Family. A Concerned Cyber Age parents’ publication, 2005
ISBN: 0-9738767-1-9

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection: Safety and the Internet brochures
(8 - 9 years; 10 - 12 years; 13 - 15 years).
Available free of charge from: www.kidsintheknow.ca; bulk orders for the cost of shipping.
This series of brochures provides practical, age-appropriate information to help parents improve their child’s safety on the Internet. See website for brochure contents: http://www.kidsintheknow.ca/app/en/view_product_category

Johnson, Doug. Learning Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: An ethics guide for parents, teachers, librarians, and others who care about computer-using young people.
Linsworth Publishing, Inc., 2003
ISBN: 1-58683-131-3
This book provides a wealth of information, case studies, discussion questions, and other interactive activities on computer/Internet ethics, and appropriate computer use.

Nickel, Rob. Staying Safe in a Wired World: A Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety.
Nickel Publishing, 2006.
ISBN 0-9780082-0-0
This book was written by a parent. It covers most of the applications used on the Internet by our children and gives instruction on how to help keep our children safe while in cyberspace.

Willard, Nancy E. Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: responding to the challenge of online social aggression, threats and distress.
Research Press, 2007
ISBN: 13:978-0-87822-537-8
This book adresses real-life online risks students face as they embrace the Internet and other digital technologies. It provides the framework schools need to implement comprehensive action in response to cyberbullying and cyberthreats.

For a more comprehensive look at issues surrounding the Internet, read The Internet Playground: Children’s access, entertainment, and mis-education, by Ellen Seiter (2005).
Psychotherapy NETWORKER July/August 2006 edition:

• The Divided...inside the world of 21^st C teens by Ron Taffel
• Cyberspace by Mary Sykes Wylie
• Lost in Electronics...Today’s media culture is leaving boys at a loss for words by Adam Cox

Websites

www.cyberbullying.ca is an excellent and comprehensive Canadian site devoted entirely to Cyberbullying, Also see: www.bullying.org

www.cyberbully.org offers a concise description of Cyberbullying and provides additional resources and references

http://www.cyberbullying.us/ provides information on Cyberbullying and offers personal anecdotes to supplement statistics. Also includes resources for parents and teachers.

www.cyberbully.org/docs/cbparents.pdf
“Parent’s Guide to Cyberbullying: Addressing Harm caused by Online Social Cruelty”

http://www.cyberbullying.ca/pdf/Cyberbullying_Information.pdf
For an online safety guide, tools for families, safe websites for kids and information for reporting Internet trouble go to: www.kids.getnetwise.org
For an American guide to safe Internet encounters, visit: www.isafe.org
One American father who lost his son to suicide after intense cyberbullying has set up a site to help educate youth and parents about its dangers before it is too late: http://www.  ryanpatrickhalligan.com/index.html

http://www.livewwwires.com/Live Wires Design teaches children how to surf the Internet safely. It includes a CD-ROM game for children, a parent/teacher guide, a video and a poster. This web site has information on internet safety issues for parents, teachers and librarians.

http://www.wiredsafety.org/ serves to educate the community about the dangers of the Internet. WiredSafety.org also provides information and resources to help educate and guide law enforcement officers on Internet safety issues, crime prevention and reporting of cyber crimes.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm strives to equip adults with information and tools to help youth understand how the media work, how the media may affect their lifestyle choices and the extent to which they, as consumers and citizens, are being well informed. MNet also provides reference materials for use by adults and youth alike in examining media issues from a variety of perspectives.