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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:09 PM

BeSeen App: Training Wheels for Social Networks

Have your children played our BeSeen app yet? BeSeen is our free mobile app designed to simulate an online social network for kids. By playing BeSeen, youth can subliminally learn how to be responsible on social networks through navigating fictional situations...

Posted by Judi Westberg-Warren, President | 1 comment(s)

Thursday, June 07, 2012 6:00 AM

Web Wise Kids and BeSeen: An Award Finalist!

We are proud to announce that our BeSeen game has been selected as an award finalist by the Pittsburgh Technology Council!

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012 2:17 PM

BeSeen Featured in SecretlyNetwork.com!

Web Wise Kids is honored to be listed by Secretly Networking as a recommendation for Best Apps for Kids. We are delighted to be included with so many other great apps.

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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 “friend” 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 Weishuhn’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 – 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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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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