Web Site Name: Stop Bullying Now!

Web Site Address: www.stopbullying.gov/

Description:  This website focuses on the topic of bullying.  Adults and students can access this site to learn about signs of being a bully, those who are bullied, and witnesses of bullying.  Educators can utilize this site to learn about prevention and interventions to bullying.  Topics for educators include laws for bullying, strategies for classroom environments (rules, talking about bullying in class), cyberbullying, and advice on documenting bullying.  The pages for students link to cartoon webisodes that would appeal to young children.  The webisodes contain topics on bullying, such as a first day at school.  Quizzes and games on the website reinforce the scenarios addressed in the webisodes.  Teacher could easily integrate these topics/webpages into a bully prevention program/lesson.  By teaching awareness about bullying everyone in the school community can tackle the goal of putting a stop to bullying.

Web Site Name: Internet 4 Classrooms

Web Site Address: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/character_ed.htm

Description:  Internet 4 Teachers provides a wide range of resources to use with students.  I selected the PreK -12 link and the character education resources.  Topics within this category include, anger, problem solving/conflict resolution, bullying/cyberbullying, character, fairness, and social skills.  One of the lessons, titled The Art of Compromise focuses on providing a definition for the word compromise and a discussion about compromising.  By addressing compromise in a lesson, teacher’s can instruct students on problem solving and the steps to problem solving.  This lesson presents scenarios that require a compromise.  The scenarios could be used as guided or independent practice.  Guidance counselors or classroom teachers could use these scenarios, which are geared more, towards the high school level.  These scenarios, which are do not focus on school related issues can be viewed as an example for further teacher made samples.  Problem solving and compromise are essentials for all students, not just students with behavioral concerns.  Lessons in these topics can be preventative measures to issues that may occur with the classroom or outside of school.  Many of the social and compromise issues that high school students encounter are often during social interactions.

Web Site Name: Cyberbullying.org

Web Site Address: http://www.autismsupportnetwork.com/resources/bullying-prevention-websites> cyberbullying > http://www.cyberbullying.ca> http://www.cyberbullying.org/

Description: Cyberbullying.org is a website devoted to providing background about digital bullying.  The site provides definitions of Cyberbullying.  Individuals with little to no background knowledge about technology-based forms of bullying can learn the lingo of Cyberbullying.  The site outlines acronyms and forms of bullying used by bullies.  Everything from email to MMS and voting/poll booths are discussed.  In addition to providing acronyms for the forms of bullying there are also acronyms used within the messages of bullying.  Educators often hear slang used within the classroom and this site provides examples often seen in texts or emails such as, ROTFL, rolling on the floor laughing.  Just remember back to your days in school, I am sure you can thing of slang that was used.  In today’s fast passed world with a need for speed and immediacy the age of paper based mail for sending messages have come and gone, instant messages and texts are the sources that youth and bullies use.  In addition to providing a background on Cyberbullying, this site provides links to other websites, PDF’s, and online articles that cover a vast range of bullying in the digital age.