DigitalShepherds
Helping Families Cross The Digital Divide
5 Tips For A Digital Drama Free School Year
One of the most popular articles on our site is our Back to School list of 6 tips for helping your children deal with tech temptations. That list helps you, the parent, ensure that they remain focused and on task, starting out the school year strong. This time around, we ...
Online Sex Predators Arrested, Keeping Your Child From Becoming Sex Site Material
Information about one of the largest rings of online sexual predators was recently unsealed, providing the kind of fodder that news organizations and internet alarmists thrive on. This paragraph taken from a Department of Justice press release, "Operation Delego, an ongoing investigation that was launched in December 2009, targeted the ...
Is CA SB919 Enough To Stop Sexting?
Recently, I was asked to consult for a local district PTSA Legislation Committee on matters involving families/students and technology. The first piece of legislation we are taking a look at is CA Senate Bill 919 which makes "sexting" an offense which carries the penalty of suspension from school, or expulsion, ...
Apps For New Teen Drivers: TeleNav
Recently, along with four other dads who blog, I was invited to be a spokesperson for a product I've actually been using since for about a decade. The product is a piece of software which happens to be included, or available as an option on many of the cellphones you ...
Check Those Facebook Privacy Settings... Again
Last year, Facebook made available to users in North America a new technology which is supposed to make it easier for people to be tagged in photos… facial recognition software. When I checked, the feature was available (it was still disabled for many users at that time) so I deactivated ...
The Link Between Australia, Cyberbullying And California SB 1411
I almost wrote that title as "What does Cyberbullying, Australia and California have in common?" It sounded too much like the start of a bad joke but the content of this post is no laughing matter. According to the Brisbane Times in Australia, two pre-teen girls who were "accused of ...
Parenting in the Digital Age Workshops - This is as close to "hands on" as you can get! We bring Macs, Windows computers, Xbox360, and the Playstation 3 to this workshop and teach you how to set up parental controls with a live demo of each.
You get a live demo, "best practices" and much more to help you keep your children safe as they navigate their online world. …
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Tech-Connected Tweens/Teens Assembly - Part motivational speech, part 'net literacy education, part Q&A, all awesome! This is our highly successful pilot program which will enlighten, inform and inspire your child to take ownership of their online activities and "digital footprint." This 40 minute presentation is age-appropriate and tailored to the grade level of the students we present to. Digital Shepherds has run our pilot program with children from elementary through high school and while the presentation varies, the unifying concepts are the same... education, literacy, ownership. …
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