Nicely done! What is the source for your information? And what pre and post survey activities will you do with your students? What about sharing the info with their parents?
I like your bullying survey. This is a really good tool to use for topics like bullying. It allows the student to share information and to feel confidant to share information because it will be more confidential.
I like your cyber-bullying survey, too! We just had a staff meeting about bullying this fall and discussed cyber-bullying. Do I have your permission to use this and present it to colleagues?
Jim, Thanks for your comment on my survey! I originally created this survey back in the spring of 2005 as part of a group project that I was assigned for a tech course I took through Eastern Michigan University. Information on cyber-bullying was scarce at that time. The leading expert, Bill Belsy from Cananda and creator of cyberbullying.ca/ was a main source of my information. It is amazing how much more information is now available to us since then!
I have actually changed the survey a little bit since 2005. Two years ago I had some issues with cyber-bullying with several seventh graders...emails getting sent back and forth with mean comments...parents upset that their kids were setting up myspace accounts and lying about their age...of course, I as their teacher and our principal at the time were being asked by the parents to do something about it even though it was happening outside of school. I used the survey (paper & pencil) to get the students thinking about what was happening. They were quite responsive to this and wanted to talk about the issues they were having. Another program our school had implemented, was PeaceWorks, a conflict management program. The survey and other resources and materials I had gathered worked nicely with that program and led to some great discussions about online etiquette (netiquette)and safety.
I like the idea of sharing results with parents and may do that now that I have a classroom wiki to share those results on.
The whole idea of teaching our students and making parents aware of online behaviors is a must before we ever can begin to embark on this whole notion of social networking in our schools. It is simply a responisiblity we have as educators of today.
Nicely done! What is the source for your information? And what pre and post survey activities will you do with your students? What about sharing the info with their parents?
ReplyDeleteI like your bullying survey. This is a really good tool to use for topics like bullying. It allows the student to share information and to feel confidant to share information because it will be more confidential.
ReplyDeleteI like your cyber-bullying survey, too! We just had a staff meeting about bullying this fall and discussed cyber-bullying. Do I have your permission to use this and present it to colleagues?
ReplyDeleteJim,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment on my survey! I originally created this survey back in the spring of 2005 as part of a group project that I was assigned for a tech course I took through Eastern Michigan University. Information on cyber-bullying was scarce at that time. The leading expert, Bill Belsy from Cananda and creator of cyberbullying.ca/ was a main source of my information. It is amazing how much more information is now available to us since then!
I have actually changed the survey a little bit since 2005. Two years ago I had some issues with cyber-bullying with several seventh graders...emails getting sent back and forth with mean comments...parents upset that their kids were setting up myspace accounts and lying about their age...of course, I as their teacher and our principal at the time were being asked by the parents to do something about it even though it was happening outside of school. I used the survey (paper & pencil) to get the students thinking about what was happening. They were quite responsive to this and wanted to talk about the issues they were having. Another program our school had implemented, was PeaceWorks, a conflict management program. The survey and other resources and materials I had gathered worked nicely with that program and led to some great discussions about online etiquette (netiquette)and safety.
I like the idea of sharing results with parents and may do that now that I have a classroom wiki to share those results on.
The whole idea of teaching our students and making parents aware of online behaviors is a must before we ever can begin to embark on this whole notion of social networking in our schools.
It is simply a responisiblity we have as educators of today.
a.mowat,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment! You are welcome to use my survey and share with colleagues. Thanks for asking and let me know how it works for you!