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Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:45 PM

Web Wise Kids Featured in eSchool News!

A report from eSchool News came out which lists the top ten ways that schools can teach students about Internet safety. The number one method to teach kids is to use games, and Web Wise Kids is listed as a resource. You can read the rest of the report...

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Filed under: educational apps for kids, internet safety, web wise kids, wwk, be seen, digital citzenship, games to teach kids, it's your call, eschool news, educational games for children

Tuesday, June 05, 2012 2:52 PM

Would a Lift on Age Restriction Be Good for Kids on Facebook?

Facebook has been considering lifting its age restriction on accounts and opening up its accounts to kids. (for more information, you can read this article. If the FCC вЂњokaysвЂќ this move, it could be an important help for parents with tweens. As the article...

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Filed under: educational apps for kids, web wise kids, wwk, be seen, be seen app, facebook for teens, facebook age restriction, safe apps for kids, facebook

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:07 PM

What Can BeSeen Teach Your Kids?

Our BeSeen App is an online safety mobile application that simulates a social networking website. The player creates a profile and starts earning вЂњfriendвЂќ characters and interacting with them. They learn about others through their posts and help them...

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:52 PM

BeSeen Has Global Appeal!

You Said It. BeSeen Has Global Appeal! Word Is Spreading About The New BeSeen Lesson Materials! Its only been a few weeks since we created a download page for the new BeSeen lesson materials on the Web Wise Kids website. But in that short time, heres...

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012 11:18 AM

BeSeen FAQs

BeSeen is our mobile phone app we created in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. The game is designed to be played on a mobile phone and simulates a social network. It was designed to teach kids how to be responsible on social networks like Facebook...

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Monday, April 30, 2012 4:32 PM

Teen Bullying Suicide Pushes Newspaper to Take a Stand

A teen in Iowa, 14 year old Kenneth Weishuhn Jr., committed suicide because of bullying, and a newspaper is now taking a stand. Shaken by WeishuhnвЂ™s death, The Sioux City Journal dedicated its entire front page of its Sunday edition paper to an editorial...

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Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:44 PM

BeSeen Classroom Materials a Hit!

Our new BeSeen program that provides downloadable lesson plans вЂ“ complete with handouts, worksheets, instructional videos, and 12 lesson plans-- allows educators, youth directors and parents to instantly begin sharing the benefits of BeSeen with their...

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:16 PM

BeSeen to Launch in USA Today

Watch our president, Judi Westberg Warren, talk about our upcoming BeSeen app launch in USA Today. Click here to watch

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Saturday, April 07, 2012 6:30 PM

Web Wise Kids' New Official Speaker Discusses Organization Mission

Watch Web Wise Kids newest trainer and official speaker, Rommel Anacan, speak more about our organizations missions and goals here

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Filed under: digital safety, facebook safety for youth, web wise kids, facebook safety for kids, judi warren, wwk, digital citizenship, educating children internet, facebook safety, cyberbullying, cyberbullying prevention, digital safety children, digital safetyfety, new speaker and trainer, rommel anacan

Monday, March 19, 2012 2:04 PM

Web Wise Kids And The Fight Against Bullying

A new documentary from The Weinstein Company called Bully is about to hit theaters and aims to raise awareness about AmericaвЂ™s bullying epidemic. Unfortunately, the MPAA recently announced that the film will receive a вЂњRвЂќ rating and restrict minors from...

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Filed under: web wise kids, wwk, social network safety, judi warren. internet safety, preventing cyberbullying, cyberbullying, cyberbullying prevention, weinstein company, MPAA, kids safety, digital safety children, Bully

Friday, March 09, 2012 10:59 AM

Reinforcing our Mission

This morning, I read this article about (http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/08/justice/texas-teen-flees/index.html) how a young teenage girl narrowly escaped from a Facebook predator. I am so grateful to hear that this teen was prevented from being another statistic;...

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