media centered

Online Safety and Social Networking

I, along with our school information services manager, hosted a presentation and discussion about internet safety and social networking for teens and tweens. Specifically, I talked about MySpace and used information from the research done by the Pew Internet and American Life Project to provide a more balanced look at teen use of social networks. Our goal was to respond to the negative press about sites like MySpace. We had a large crowd of middle school parents and provided lots of information to guide them through the online worlds of their digital natives.