Parent+Social+Media+Webinar

=Social Media Webinar for Parents: De-Mystifying What Your Teens are Doing Online=
 * April 27, 2010--7-8 p.m. EDT**

Presenters:
//Michele Martin--//Michele is a workforce and education consultant who uses social media on a daily basis with her clients. You can see some of her projects here. She has two daughters, ages 18 and 22 and uses Facebook, IM and Twitter to stay in contact with them. Her first experience with social media was in 2002 when her then 14-year old daughter, Jessica Roy, began a Xanga blog.

//Jessica Roy//--Jessica is a 2010 graduate of New York University with a degree in new media and journalism. She will be working as a "Community Genius" for [|Context Optional] in San Francisco, a job she got as a result of her social media contacts. Jessica started with a Xanga blog in 2002. She is active on Facebook and Twitter, is Editor-in-Chief of NYU Local, a blog for NYU students, and has her own personal blog.

[|LINK TO POWERPOINT PRESENTATION]

Webinar Objectivess

 * Who's online?
 * What are they doing?
 * Tips/Advice for using Facebook, YouTube and IM/Chat
 * Questions/Concerns

Who's Online?
A new Pew Internet Project report reveals that 93% of teens ages 12‐17 go online, as do 93% of young adults ages 18‐29.

Three quarters (74%) of all adults ages 18 and older go online. Over the past ten years, teens and young adults have been consistently the two groups most likely to go online, even as the internet population has grown and even with documented larger increases in certain age cohorts (e.g. adults 65 and older). [|Report: Teens and Social Media] | [|Millennials Home]



[|How Millenial Are You?]--Online quiz that you can take to see your generational rank in terms of Internet use.

[| Recent Webcast from Pew Internet Research project on Millenials and How the Use the Web]

Stats below [|from Generational Differences in Online Activity from Pew Charitable Trust]



[|Teens in the Digital Age]

[|Teen and Young Adult Internet Use]

[|Is Technology Changing Childhood: A National Poll on Teens and Social Media]

Teens and Mobile Phones
[|The latest stats on teen mobile phone use from the Pew Internet and American Life Project]

Issues
[|Teens, Online Strangers and Cyberbullying: What the Data is Telling Us]

[|Report on Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks]

[|Cyberbullying: What the Research is Telling Us]

=General Parent Resources= From Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides information for parents, educators and students on using the Internet safely and responsibly.


 * [|Tips for Social Networking]
 * [|Rules of the Road for Kids]
 * [|Rules of the Road for Parents]
 * [|Family Media Agreements]
 * [|Issues and Resources for 7th-8th grade]
 * [|Issues and Resources for HS]
 * [|Internet Filtering & Monitoring]

[|Teens and Technology: A Crash Course for Parents-]-This crash course in the most popular communication tools used by teens today offers guidance and advice to help parents monitor their teen's activities on these devices.

[|Parent Resources]--includes links to many specific sites, including PTA, the American Academy of Pediatrics, etc.

[|Should Parents Become Big Brother?]--includes links to monitoring tools.

[|Parental Control Software Reviews]

[|Monitoring Skills for Parents]

[|Parent Social Media Video Tutorials]





//Social Media Learning Resources//
 * [|Growing Up Online]--a PBS Frontline report that includes video, lesson plans, etc.
 * Also check out [|Digital Nation: How Technology is Impacting How We Live and Learn].
 * [|CyberSmart Curriculum]--free lessons for grades 9-12
 * [|Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents]--digital "handout"
 * Digital Citizenship Curriculum
 * Digital Literacy
 * A Digital Literacy Curriculum from Microsoft
 * Technology Literacy Curriculum

[[image:http://images.thecarconnection.com/sml/facebook-logo_100182759_s.png width="90" height="90" align="left"]]Facebook
Facebook is a social networking site (SNS), used by millions of teens and adults--it has more than 250 million users world-wide. Users create a "profile" and can "friend" other people, who then become part of their social network. People interact by posting status updates, writing comments on friends' "walls," posting photos and making comments on them, and sending private messages to one another through Facebook's messaging feature. They can also use Facebook to instant message with friends in their network.

The vast majority of teens use Facebook to stay in contact with people they already know and with friends of friends. In a recent study conducted by the Pew Project on Internet and American Life, 66% of teens reported using privacy settings to restrict who had access to their information, compared to 60% of adults.

[|How to Know if Strangers Can See Your Private Facebook Photos]
 * [|Facebook for Parents]--from Common Sense Media
 * [|Facebook Safety Information for Parents]--from Facebook
 * [|Facebook Safety for Teens]--from Facebook
 * [|Facebook Privacy: A Guide]
 * [|10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know]
 * [|How to Block Facebook Photos of Yourself]
 * [|Facebook Privacy Settings: What Parents Need to Know]
 * [|How to Set up a Facebook Account and Profile]--for parents who want to see what Facebook is all about.
 * [|Facebook's New Features and Privacy: What You Need to Know]
 * [|How to Opt Out of Facebook's Instant Personalization]

[[image:http://willscullypower.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/myspace-logo.jpg width="114" height="114" align="left"]]MySpace
Like Facebook, MySpace is a social networking site (SNS). As with Facebook, users create profiles, connect to friends and can share photos and post messages on each others' pages. MySpace is more free-from than Facebook, allowing users to customize their pages in any way they want. As a result, you're more likely to find "questionable" content on MySpace than on Facebook.

In recent years, Facebook has overtaken MySpace in popularity, although there are still millions of teens on MySpace. The latest stats show 60 million users world-wide for MySpace. The general trends, though, show a decline in MySpace and a rise in Facebook as the preferred network for most US teens, especially those who are college-bound.


 * [|Safety Tips]--from MySpace
 * [|7 Rules for MySpace Parents]
 * [|Mastering MySpace Dangers: 10 Tips for Parents]
 * [|MySpace Tutorial for Parents]
 * [|MySpace FAQs on Privacy and Security]
 * [|How to Remove or Hide Personal Information on MySpace]

[[image:http://www.physics.ucc.ie/nicchormaic/youtube-logo.jpg width="159" height="110" align="left"]]YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing site. Users can find and watch videos and share them with others through links or embedding in a website or SNS. They can also leave comments and upload their own video content. Teens tend to use YouTube as a source of amusement, searching for and sharing content they find entertaining. However there are also some great educational uses of YouTube, which you can find through [|YouTube EDU], where hundreds of colleges and universities are posting free learning materials and content.


 * [|How to Enable Safety Mode in YouTube]
 * [|YouTube Resources on Various Safety Issues]
 * [|YouTube's Parent Center]
 * [|WiredSafety Handout on YouTube for Parents]
 * [|What Parents Need to Know About YouTube]
 * [|For Parents: Is Your Child Using YouTube?]

Instant Messaging and Chat Rooms
Instant Messaging or "IM-ing" is a way for people to have real-time conversations by typing into their computers. Many SNS sites like Facebook have IM features built into their site. You can also use a stand-alone program like [|AIM] or G-Talk, which comes with a Gmail account. Users have buddy or friend lists of people they allow to message with them. They can also block people from sending them messages.

Chat rooms are online locations where many people can have real-time conversations by typing into their computers. They tend to form around specific interests. Most teens do not use chat rooms, instead relying on instant messaging and texts to communicate in real-time. They also tend to use these tools with people they already know in real life or, sometimes, with friends of friends.


 * [|Internet Safety Guide for Parents--IM-ing and Chat Rooms]
 * I[|M Safety: Protecting Yourself on Instant Messenger]--links to a variety of articles
 * [|IM Safety for Parents]
 * [|IM Safety for Teens]
 * [|Vodafone Parents Guide to IM Safety]
 * [|MediaAwareness Tips]

ChatRoulette
One site you should be aware of is [|ChatRoulette].Chatroulette allows people around the world to see each other and chat via text or audio. Users can click “next” to skip from person to person, never knowing what the next image will be. While it can be a cool way to connect and talk with people, more often than not, it's a way to connect with content most parents have a problem with, especially for younger teens.

You should be aware that when you are connecting to ChatRoulette, you are also activating your own web camera so that the people you are chatting with can see YOU. They can also record your session without your knowledge and upload to a video-sharing site. Your own teen can record and upload as well--it goes both ways.

There is no way to control what anyone sees on ChatRoulette--there's no such thing as filtering on the site. The only way to control is to block the entire site. But be aware that teen users like to go on the site in groups, so even if the site is blocked at your house, that doesn't mean they aren't accessing it someplace else.


 * [|What Parents Should Know About ChatRoulette]
 * [|5 Things Parents Should Know About ChatRoulette]
 * [|The Human Shuffle]--a NY Magazine article that gives you a taste of what ChatRoulette is about.
 * [|How to Block ChatRoulette on Your PC]