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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Ireland's social-Web guide for parents

Ireland's Ministry of Justice, Equality and Law Reform has just published a parents' guide to social networking, technology news site ENN reports. "The guide explains what social networking Web sites are and how they operate, all in a user-friendly format." The beauty of this is how available the booklet will be and that it's free. The government will distribute it through libraries, community information centres, credit unions, and Web sites, and mobile-phone companies will do so through their retail outlets. Please see the article for links. And - forgive the shameless self-promotion - my co-author and I published such a Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking in the US and UK a couple of years ago (see MySpaceUnraveled.com) with Peachpit Press and Pearson Education.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also just published in Ireland and launched by the Minister of Education is a teaching and learning classroom booklet of 13 lessons and workshops for 12 to 15 year olds on social networking literacy skills and safety procedures.

The beauty of this course is that a day’s inservice in its delivery in the classroom is offered to teachers of Social Personal and Health Education (a mandatory subject in secondary schools).

Further info can be found at: http://www.ncte.ie/NewsandEvents/Newsletter/d3437.HTML.html


The joint initiatives of the Ministries of Education, Communication and Justice were to promote Internet Safety Day 2008. The aim is to reach Irish students, teachers and their parents.

2:39 AM  
Blogger Anne said...

Thanks for the further info and link, Grainne! All best,
Anne

5:30 AM  

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