Cyber Safety Tool Kit 2010-2013
Distributed by Human Relations Media, 41 Kensico Drive, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; 800-431-2050
Produced by Human Relations Media
DVD, color, 1 hr.,36 min. for 5 disc set
Jr. High - General Adult
Adolescence, Bullying, Bullying Prevention, Cyber Bullying, Cyber Safety, Education, Parenting, Social Media, Social Networks
Date Entered: 03/15/2013
Reviewed by Christopher Hollister, University at Buffalo LibrariesThe Cyber Safety Tool Kit consists of five Human Relations Media (HRM) videos:
- Dangers of Sexting: What Teens Need to Know
- Digital Smarts: Behaving Ethically Online
- Digital Smarts: Protecting Your Online Reputation and Safety
- I Was Cyberbullied
- Me and My 500 "Friends": Staying Safe on Social Networks
These are research-based videos intended primarily for an audience of adolescents and young adults who are characteristically savvy with computing technologies, but who are sometimes naïve with their use of social networks. The videos include compelling case studies, expert interviews, real-life stories, and even role plays and other valuable student activities. Together, these videos represent a cohesive suite of the potential dangers that are inherent to today’s varied and rapidly evolving social networks; they offer common sense protections that adolescents and young adults can employ, and they provide effective methods of coping for victims of cyber attacks and cyber bullying.
The Cyber Safety Tool Kit is also intended for an audience of parents and teachers; it includes 50 each of the following pamphlets: Stamp Out Bullying, and Bullying: What Parents Need to Know. Additionally, each DVD in the tool kit includes a useful, downloadable Teacher’s Resource Book.
It is no secret that the issue of bullying has always been a challenge for adolescents and young adults, but the proliferation of web-based communications, and social networks in particular, have increased the complexities and the possibilities of bullying behaviors. There is a greater need than ever before for research-based prevention tools, which can be used to effectively engage adolescents and young adults, and to help them to modify their relative attitudes and behaviors. The Cyber Safety Tool Kit helps to fill that need. This reviewer highly recommends the tool kit for academic, public and school library collections.